[…] (mostly unsourced) information about William McGrath and his strange organisation Tara. At various points Moore asserts that McGrath and Tara were being run by British intelligence – MI5, apparently – though it is never entirely clear, because Moore offers no evidence. I had a chat with Harry Irwin who compiled the Kincora bibliography in […]
[…] who followed the instructions. Reported in Counterpunch, Vol 5. No 21 (December 1-15, 1998) PO Box 18675, Washington DC 20036. Another cunning Commie plot Erstwhile Director-General of MI5, Stella Rimington, was the subject of a long profile in the Sunday Telegraph, 21 June 1998. Rimington said that when she became D-G she ‘tried to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today… today it certainly makes a striking contrast with dear, declining Britain, where MP’s may not even ask parliamentary questions about MI5 and 6. On the front cover is the legend “The KGB secrets the British government doesn’t want you to read’. I suspect that this also went […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
