[…] 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 […]
[…] strategies could be effective only in the wider context of the incorporation of the working class into the political order.” Blowing the gaffers Paul Demetriou Leveller/Monochrome April 1985 Interview with unnamed MI5 officer: details tapping, break-ins, surveillance (some of them included in the Clippings Digest). This is an important companion piece to the Massiter revelations.
[…] a long piece, over 5,000 words, on Newton’s political career, Bateman’s account (and the errors allegedly therein) and why he did not believe Newton had been an MI5 agent. Very interesting indeed. But he attached a condition: print intact, unedited, or not at all. So I sent it back. (I didn’t want to materially […]
[…] 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: […]
In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly given […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] in its present form to investigate issues relating to the Army or MI5.’3 It is important to note that Sir Anthony Hart was expressing his concerns about MI5 publicly and in the presence of the press. That was an unusual step for a former High Court Judge to take, but it is now suspected […]
[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
Contents Lobster 58 The Defence of the Realm The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew Page 134 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 London: Allen Lane, 2009, £30 Covering the same area as the Hennessy/Thomas book but with access to more recent MI5 documents, Andrew does at least refer to the dissenters named in the preceding […]
[PDF file]: […] later Neville Chamberlain and other supporters of the appeasement policy secretly bought and ran the weekly newspaper Truth. This was largely an operation run by the former MI5 officer and éminence grise of the time, Sir Joseph Ball. He used the official government information machine to push the Chamberlain line, formed the National Publicity […]
