[PDF file]: […] lieutenant’s woman,’ The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 ‘New […]
[PDF file]: […] felt the need to spy on others, and on their own people, they have tried to keep the very fact of their doing so secret – SIS, MI5 and GCHQ didn’t officially exist until 1989. By contrast, the CIA was set up by Congress, and has always been – formally at least – accountable […]
[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* Stolen, not shared ‘ MI5 joins Instagram to bust martini-drinking stereotypes’ was a headline from BBC News online in late April.1 The head of the Security Service, Ken McCallum,2 was quoted from a piece he had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We […]
[PDF file]: […] computer print-out listing the names and addresses of 1,500 CND activists around the country. The disclosure of Mr Bonnett’s role, coming after the statement by the former MI5 officer Cathy Massiter that MI5 broke its own rules to gather intelligence about CND, will increase anxiety about the activities of domestic security forces. Mr Bonnett, […]
[PDF file]: […] increasingly difficult to avoid in rural areas. Roughly speaking, we are where the anti-smoking lobby was in the mid-1950s with the idea that tobacco caused cancer.49 Bliar, MI5? Thanks to SC for pointing out that the extract from former MI5 officer Annie Machon’s book, Spies Lies and Whistleblowers, 46 This quotation is from . […]
[PDF file]: […] to John le Carré. 1 The Little Drummer Girl, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983). 2 Born David John Moore Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, 19 October 1931, ex- MI5, ex-MI6. 3 Agent Running in the Field, (London: Viking, 2019). 4 5 The Little Drummer Girl, foreword. The autobiography of the English-born Mossad field officer Olivia […]
[…] afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Belfast, followed a man into the toilets and propositioned him for sex.’ ‘Elements of the security services’? He means MI5. And why not identify the story and its author? The book’s subtitle, after all, is Spies and the Media. The story was ‘Pub incident that exposed […]
[PDF file]: […] on the matter at all, concluding his recollection of the episode with a cryptic joke about the Palace having been in the scandal-burying business for centuries and MI5 being a comparative beginner. Wright must have known at least part of the purpose of Blunt’s mission, because it was reported by the Daily Telegraph back […]
[PDF file]: […] afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Belfast, followed a man into the toilets and propositioned him for sex.’ ‘Elements of the security services’? He means MI5. And why not identify the story and its author? The book’s subtitle, after all, is Spies and the Media. The story was ‘Pub incident that exposed […]
[PDF file]: […] become ultra-infectious. Now Whitehall sources have revealed that Dominic Cummings’ evidence to the inquiry was redacted by the security services to remove criticism of the fact that MI5 and MI6 had falsely dismissed the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is very striking and very odd. Did we know that ‘security’ officials […]
