[PDF file]: […] on the extraordinary detail in Common Cause’s 1974 Bulletins on the Communist Party of Great Britain, suggesting that such detail could only have come from Special Branch/ MI5 sources. On reexamining some Common Cause Bulletins in the early 1970s we noticed this cryptic sentence which seems to first appear in Bulletin 127 (p. 124): […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 government.15 Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community […]
[PDF file]: […] was a guest on his show). There are several pages of an ultimately inconclusive account about alleged abuse and cover ups at Knowl View Children’s Home and MI5 get name checked on p. 195 as having kept Smith out of trouble (‘but no one is prepared to go on record about it’). Danczuk mentions […]
[PDF file]: […] Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin James Parris (Harry Harmer) Cheltenham: The History Press, 2019, £14.00 (h/b) The Stocklassa book is about the killing of Olof […]
[PDF file]: […] Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that ‘up to 30’ MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the […]
[PDF file]: […] part of an anti-Nazi resistance network which included coreligionists and they handed over to the British a list which identified many colleagues. After the war, officers from MI5 travelled to Germany to try to find these people, but failed to locate one of them. Ben Macintyre provides an account of this episode based on […]
[PDF file]: […] This includes allegations about the late Lord Mountbatten using at least one of the boys in Kincora. On past performance, Moore will have been under surveillance by MI5 and the British state will have been aware of the book’s contents. Wallace is a witness to MI5’s use of Kincora in the 1970s and is […]
[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]
[…] things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. Other people are doing this, which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘ MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, […]
[PDF file]: […] Section D or Section VII. Any such large-scale effort within the UK border by one of the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were […]
