[…] in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee or Labour’s Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another useful feature of the volume is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal […]
[…] forces won and the consensus formed that Angleton was a nutter who did terrible damage to the CIA and, by extension, to allied intelligence agencies such as MI5 and MI6.(6) This anti-Angleton consensus is challenged by his former ally Begley, who reanalyses the Nosenko affair and tries to show the reader that their – […]
[…] and the other ‘a man who was high up in the Labour Party at the time…a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency MI5. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father to use his black-magic, soul-cracking brain-washing techniques on young boys.’ This must be the late Tom […]
[…] saying: “It’s impossible to say how many phones are being tapped at one time. The RUC Special Branch tap a lot … others, including Box 500 ( MI5), Six (MI6) and 12 Int (Military Intelligence). Sometimes you get a local ‘research cell’ (Brigade or Battalion Intelligence) doing their own tapping on a particular target..a […]
[…] other inquiries the security service was not involved in Miss Murrell’s murder and had no knowledge of her before her death.’ I have seen no evidence that MI5 were involved in the Murrell’s death but just to be told, ‘Well, we asked and they denied it’ won’t do. (Though what would do, I admit, […]
[…] same Ken Livingstone who supported Gerry Healy and sat with Alex Mitchell and Corin Redgrave on the editorial board of Labour Herald. Livingstone made the charge that MI5 had engineered Healy’s expulsion from the WRP as recently as 1989. See for example Robert Reiner, The Politics of the Police (third edition, Oxford, Oxford University […]
[…] Scott and Iain Macleay’s Britain’s Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo American State (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1990. With only the slightest acquaintance with the ‘Anglo-American state’ (calling MI5 ‘DI5’, for example, and confusing its role with that of ‘DI6’), the authors blunder about in what is potentially a very interesting and under-reported area. Its […]
[…] account. Christie knew a couple of the AB people slightly, his circle butted onto theirs at a couple of places, and you can imagine how the SB/ MI5 mind viewed that. Just to make sure, they planted the detonators ‘found’ in his car. It appears, indeed, that, with the exception of Christie (who was […]
[…] two striking Yorkshire miners; an account of the crucial role of the senior administrative officer of the NUM, based on the widely-held view that Roger Windsor was MI5 agent; and a brutal portrayal of the machinations and skulduggery which characterise the black underbelly of state politics. Most of the leading actors in this drama […]
[…] trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of Commons (12/1/88) will run for years. The Cavendish book is an unprecedented public manifestation of the MI6- MI5 wars, and more is bound to follow. (And it’s quite an interesting book, though perhaps not for the reasons Cavendish intended.) Wallace and Holroyd seem to […]
