[…] take Agee’s word against Kalugin’s. For the moment, I do too.* This alleged Agee connection with the KGB is presumably the flimsy basis of the allegation, from MI5, in the notorious ‘Gable memo’ (reprinted in Lobster 24) that Kelly was a ‘KGB man’. You can see how the smear went: Agee went to the […]
[…] 36, has had weeks off-line caused by a succession of computer viruses. The viruses started arriving shortly after he signed a contract to write a volume on MI5 for the Pocket Essentials series. I wrote about Robert Henderson and his experience of having Special Branch and a tabloid sicced onto him by the Blairs […]
[…] Branch SB attending Friends of the Earth and NCCL meetings in Manchester. (Guardian 29 November) MI6 Interesting piece on Tony Jones, London solicitor accused of being MI6/ MI5 informant, including the information that Michael Bettaney was the source of the information, in Black Flag 27 November. Political intelligence service of Hamburg police prepare weekly […]
[…] they were too timid and had not been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number of ‘significant […]
[…] NB on this paragraph see the correction in Lobster 26. Kevin Taylor — Manchester businessman, Chair of Manchester Conservative Association, whose life and business were ruined by MI5 and the police looking for dirt with which to smear his friend John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester. (See The Poisoned Tree, Kevin […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]
[…] duty that night in Hammersmith police station were involved with Quinn’s death; or, at least, knew what happened and covered up. Kennedy speculates that Special Branch and/or MI5 may be involved, and suspects that an interception warrant, established during his case, is being constantly renewed. He believes the intention is to damage his business […]
[…] had not yet achieved auteur status and was working on potboilers under a variety of pseudonyms. A chance meeting between the two comes to the attention of MI5, and Blunt is instructed to befriend Losey and monitor his activities on behalf of the American intelligence services. In doing so, he comes to admire Losey’s […]
[…] ‘CIA spies listened to Diana’s love secrets’, The Mirror 12 November 1998. Martin Bashir, the television reporter who interviewed Diana for Panorama, has also said that ‘… MI5 was carrying out “dirty tricks” on .’ (Sally Bedell Smith, Diana: the life of a troubled Princess, London: Aurum Press, 1999, p.281) The Daily Telegraph Home […]
[…] to fix Stalker. It was nothing subtle: leaning on hookers to claim Stalker fathered their child; leaning on gay men to etc etc. This conspiracy – with MI5 – followed Stalker around. Alas he was a clean cop. ‘Special Branch’, as Prince calls him, even claims LSD was put into a drink intended for […]
