[…] public scrutiny. The phone call A useful starting point is the phone call made to my home in Kingston-upon-Thames on the morning of 8 August 1992. An MI5 officer made the call from a house nearby in Ham, and my wife answered the phone. Pamela Smith: Hello. Caller: Hello, is it Michael Smith? Pamela […]
[…] as a minister, said committee had investigated nothing of consequence and issued a number of anodyne reports. No new revelatory horrors seemed to be on the horizon. MI5 and SIS had got their new buildings – rewards for the miners’ strike and Gordievsky, respectively – through the Whitehall system before the cuts began to […]
MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s In ‘MI5 feared militant left could destabilise Britain’ Jimmy Burns reported in The Financial Times 29 December 2006 on a contingency paper by MI5, presented to the Joint Intelligence Committee on April 9 1976. That paper included this: `Throughout the seventies there has […]
[…] Gay News (29th September 1983) carried a short article on Vikki De Lambray (formerly David Christian Lloyd-Gibbon), famous gay socialite, convicted High Society art thief, and apparent MI5 tempter/temptress. The article notes Lambray’s brief sexual relationship, in 1982, with Sir James Dunnett, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence, and with […]
[…] happen again. An effective group of bodyguards and stewards had to be formed.'(6) Speaking of a hypothetical ban on C18, Searchlight’s 1993 Commons evidence argued that ‘ MI5 and the police should find no problem in dealing with such groups’ (p. 6). Searchlight’s written evidence was followed up by the verbal evidence given by […]
[…] not entirely new, as he alludes to the establishment of an ‘inner force’ in the RUC around about 1973, under the auspices of one Jack Morton, an MI5 officer who had worked with the colonial authorities in Malaya. This ‘inner force’ was discussed in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary in 1991. This in turn, […]
[…] as many would like to believe – and as most writers on intelligence imagine. Even so, we know virtually nothing of any substance about the operations of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. It may be asked, ‘But what about Nigel West, Christopher Andrew and Chapman Pincher?’. Andrew has written nothing on the post-war intelligence world […]
[…] the quintessential, contemporary, football-mad, New Labour-oriented, a-political technocrat – someone who can use the word ‘modern’ without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler’s complaints about MI5 can be seen in his submission to the Cabinet Office Review of the security and intelligence services, printed here as appendix 2: they are almost entirely […]
[…] ATTACHE STOCKHOLM 1945 CONTROLLER NORTHERN AREA 1955 1ST SEC (VISA) COPENHAGEN 1956 JEDDAH 1958 FO 1961 RETIRED CARR, JOHN DICKSON WELL KNOWN THRILLER WRITER CP WORKER – MI5 AGENT 1930-40’s CARREL, IAN MI5 (W) SECURITY LIAISON OFFICER HONG KONG HEAD OF REGISTRY MID 60’s. K7 COUNTERING SOVIET PENETRATION. RETIRED LATE 70’s CARTER, PETER ANTHONY […]
[…] the origins of what Ambush calls ‘the shoot to kill legend’ and SAS involvement in ‘dirty tricks’ operations. As soon as Labour won the February 1974 election, MI5 began destabilising Harold Wilson and his policies in Northern Ireland. In May 1974, the Power-sharing Executive was brought down by the Ulster Workers’ Council strike – […]
