[…] forces won and the consensus formed that Angleton was a nutter who did terrible damage to the CIA and, by extension, to allied intelligence agencies such as MI5 and MI6.(6) This anti-Angleton consensus is challenged by his former ally Begley, who reanalyses the Nosenko affair and tries to show the reader that their – […]
[…] the world, book reviews etc. No 2 has Freney Part 2; a longish piece on the ‘Bulgarian connection’; a reprint of one of the Guardian series on MI5; plus parapolitical material from Brazil and Venezuela, clippings etc. It is not unlike The Lobster – in intention, anyway, if somewhat more ambitious in scope. Intelligence […]
[…] same Ken Livingstone who supported Gerry Healy and sat with Alex Mitchell and Corin Redgrave on the editorial board of Labour Herald. Livingstone made the charge that MI5 had engineered Healy’s expulsion from the WRP as recently as 1989. See for example Robert Reiner, The Politics of the Police (third edition, Oxford, Oxford University […]
[…] of information gained (on home ground) from its sources within FARL. (In British terms this would be as if MI6 had recruited Nesar Hindawi’s lawyer without informing MI5 or Special Branch.) While the DST was seeking the bombers who had killed 13 and wounded 250 in attacks designed to pressure the French government into […]
[…] peace and disarmament. Secret Kingdom http://www.cc.umist.ac.uk/sk/index.html ‘An initiation into the very real world of some of the more secretive government and military organisations in the UK.’ e.g. MI5, MI6, GCHQ, SAS, SBS, others. Basic stuff but all we have at the moment; and links e.g. to Mossad, Seals, Green Berets, Special Forces and counter-terrorism […]
[…] account. Christie knew a couple of the AB people slightly, his circle butted onto theirs at a couple of places, and you can imagine how the SB/ MI5 mind viewed that. Just to make sure, they planted the detonators ‘found’ in his car. It appears, indeed, that, with the exception of Christie (who was […]
[…] Chinese people and their Communist Party.’ (7) As the Czechs were the most trusted servants of the KGB/GRU in this country, it would seem highly likely that MI5 took an interest in the NCP. Curious, then, that the NCP’s funding from the Czechs did not become the centre of a new ‘Red Scare’ during […]
Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher Covert operations in British politics 1974-1978 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril Introduction: Kevin McNamara MP Any person who lived through the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next story […]
[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 […]
