[…] Official Secrets Act. The book covers a number of issues relating to the Second World War. The importance of Ultra, the activities of SOE, Churchill’s attitude towards MI5, the close cooperation between the British and Irish secret services, the assassination of Admiral Darlan and the rise of the Anglo-American intelligence alliance are all covered. […]
[…] based on policing and prosecuting authority and the traditional ‘British’ model of community integration. The Home Office was regarded as weak, demoralised and out of control – MI5 was clearly not regarded as much better. All this was positioned in the context of a history of simplistic propaganda that London had become a haven […]
[…] then only just over a year since there had been several weeks of intense media interest in the revelation that the BBC actually had its own in-house MI5 office vetting BBC employees (still there, as far as I know) — prima facie evidence that, au contraire, the BBC was exactly ‘like that’ on occasions. […]
[…] Right Club membership list may not even have known they were on it. The problem with this analysis is that any MP or public figure questioned by MI5 and the Special Branch in 1940 (facing potential treason charges which carried the death penalty) about their presence in Ramsay’s address book would have indicated surprise, […]
[…] For British readers there is new information on William Sargant, author of the 1957 landmark book, Battle for the Mind. Streatfield shows that Sargant was working for MI5 and/or MI6 – something I had assumed but had never tried to check. There is a chapter on the British Army’s torture of IRA suspects in […]
[…] job of CIB2 ‘was to monitor complaints against the police, but it did not officially exist, although it was rumoured to be linked to Special Branch and MI5. Several newspaper editors took a keen interest in CIB2, as its hand-picked team appeared determined to find out which police officers were tipping off the press, […]
[…] cyberspace. Its website address is: http://www.sp.nl/spectre/ Notes from the Borderland Issue 2 of Larry O’Hara’s magazine appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing […]
[…] Finally, the address of the Stallard Foundation was given as PO Box 500, Bedfordshire, South Africa. “PO Box 500′ used to be the UK contact point for MI5. What a curious coincidence… Apologies to Ms Cramen Proetta, the woman who witnessed the SAS shooting of the 3 IRA members on Gibraltar, for not including […]
[…] 9 August did not run the story but two other papers that day were dropping big hints. The Sunday Telegraph reported that ‘…a friend of the former MI5 agent told the Sunday Telegraph that there was “concrete evidence” that two senior ministers had worked for the security service…..the same source said that Mr Shayler’s […]
The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]
