[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] gathered in March for his memorial service in St James’s, Piccadilly. In his address, the Rt Rev John Perry said Elwell’s 30-year service to his country in MI5 should properly remain a ‘closed book’. The nearest the congregation heard of the work of the senior secret policeman who smeared many on the left in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] CIA reports and briefings); Declassified records (CIA, DIA, State dept, Nat Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs ( MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of the IC, drug smuggling and the CIA). US Military Intelligence Sites http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] as Colonel Oleg Gordiefsky – may carry additional and different burdens, as can those employed in private sector espionage. Note: one of the justifications Dame Stella Rimington gave for writing her autobiography when she stood down from MI5 was because ‘she wished to explain things’ to her daughters. See The Guardian (Weekend) 8 September 2007.
[…] of the private security sector could lead to other unravellings, such as a journey through Lloyds of London, private banking, the Department of Social Security, the police, MI5 and so forth. (5) Therefore, no regulation. This leaves the industry scratching around trying to find other means of proving its respectability. This matters because its […]
