[…] CIA in London sent a memo to the CIA HQ in Langley. It said: ‘The Cambridge reporter had never received a call of this kind before, and MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record.’28 Interesting phraseology, ‘a sound and loyal person’. Could the […]
[PDF file]: […] ken noo Slight stirrings in Parliament about the Snowdon revelations of the NSA/ GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 At or . 15 See or . 16 17 Listed at . 18 6 Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of BBC staff.19 I have no idea, I replied. The story on the BBC News website is worth reading – if only for the strong […]
[…] reader asked me if I knew why the BBC had allowed a former employee, Paul Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of Lynn Parramore, ‘Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More’ at or 14 At or . 15 See […]
[PDF file]: […] example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, ‘tapped or bugged’. Indeed, during the 1966 Seamen’s Strike Wilson had received MI5 briefings on the […]
[…] Ramsay Robin Ramsay ! This is what £50,000 in notes looks like. They were left in the boot of Olivia Frank’s car – by someone apparently from MI5 – in the hope that the moolah would persuade her not publish this book. The offer was declined: the money has been stashed, not spent, and […]
[PDF file]: […] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]
[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Robin Ramsay This is what £50,000 in notes looks like. They were left in the boot of Olivia Frank’s car – by someone apparently from MI5 – in the hope that the moolah would persuade her not publish this book. The offer was declined: the money has been stashed, not spent, and […]
[…] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]
[…] the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever left-wing group they saw fit. Certain elements of the criminal world were also part […]
