[…] of being evidence. The authors devote just one page to the security services, quote a couple of books, and get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not […]
[…] the island some ten years later around the time the most recent bout of troubles began. This was Julian Faux, a then recently retired Deputy Director-General of MI5. Faux was working for a private Australian security firm and had been given the job of writing a report on Fiji’s own security service. He recommended […]
[…] three times annually by two British eccentrics with a limited distribution to “about 50 like-minded friends.” N.B. It is anti-intelligence, specifically against the Western intelligence services, particularly MI5, MI6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The subject matter is apparently varied, eclectic, and highly interesting and informative for intelligence professionals and buffs.’ While good […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Clearly we need something to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had […]
British traditions in decline include a sense of the ridiculous as a weapon of state, jingoism and understatement. The last of these was always a brilliant British con: you only have to look at the gothic majesty of the palace of Westminster (Parliament) to realise we have never really done understatement. ‘A sense of the […]
[…] and should inform you where it is. Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the […]
[…] the world, book reviews etc. No 2 has Freney Part 2; a longish piece on the ‘Bulgarian connection’; a reprint of one of the Guardian series on MI5; plus parapolitical material from Brazil and Venezuela, clippings etc. It is not unlike The Lobster – in intention, anyway, if somewhat more ambitious in scope. Intelligence […]
[…] Western engagement against Islamism in Western Asia would naturally create conflicts of loyalty. While MI6 might enjoy itself understanding the intricacies of Pathan tribal politics, it was MI5 that was going to have to pick up the pieces. As we move towards 2008, the last Prime Minister’s over-speedy insertion of expensive military collateral into […]
[…] of information gained (on home ground) from its sources within FARL. (In British terms this would be as if MI6 had recruited Nesar Hindawi’s lawyer without informing MI5 or Special Branch.) While the DST was seeking the bombers who had killed 13 and wounded 250 in attacks designed to pressure the French government into […]
