[…] curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about salmon farming Tesco believed – apparently – that the RSPB had […]
[…] Tony Stephens, that Colin and I were telling the truth, and that contingency plans were made to prevent our allegations being made public. At that meeting, the MI5 legal officer, Mr Bernard ‘X’ Shelton, was advised to approach the Chief Constable of Royal Ulster Constabulary in order to stop the current investigations into my […]
[…] the police and army stepped beyond the law, in terms of indigenous collusion, is understandable if not to be condoned. What matters more to historians is how MI5, as an example, intervened in this process to service various agendas, some of which had little to do with fighting terrorism in Northern Ireland. The attempted […]
[…] are prepared to go to try and maintain the single assassin theory. (4) Over at the Sunday Times — basic orientation for the past few years Army/ MI5 — on 26 January, James Adams, the Times‘ chief spook-contact for those years, now the paper’s U.S. correspondent, was trotted out. Kennedy buffs are no longer […]
[…] to tackle something as sensitive as immigration and concern about the impact on trade with Middle Eastern countries. The combination of these led the British state, through MI5, coming to a kind of unstated agreement with the Jihadists that they wouldn’t play at home. Hence the growth of Londonistan, argues Phillips. It is the […]
[…] SE7 1PX. (It is probably worth adding that, as with Soviet bloc embassies, all communications to the Iranian embassy are likely to be intercepted and read by MI5.) Imam is an obnoxious anti-Semitic rag, on the whole. In the February 1984 issue they even recycle the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with this […]
[…] Green Party (two evaluating the recent census boycott campaign), a detailed expose of a regional branch of the Verfassungsschutz (Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s MI5). Using his former position as Green representative in the Baden-Wurtemberg regional parliament to prepare an in-depth account of the Verfassungsschutz, Thilo Weichert gives names, addresses, telephone […]
[…] many of the articles (and a knowing tone of voice which I find irritating). On the front cover is advertised ‘Eliza Manningham-Buller: uncovering the link between the MI5 director-general and recent royal scandals’. But there is no link that I can see. After four thousand or so densely documented words, the question is posed: […]
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. […]
[…] Among the dross was this curious statement from retiring committee member, Dale Campbell-Savours, who, in the late 1980s, was one of the Labour MPs asking questions about MI5: ‘We could never allow a system whereby someone could be appointed without great consideration. Ultimately, the whole system survives because of the relationship between the services […]
