[…] the origins of what Ambush calls ‘the shoot to kill legend’ and SAS involvement in ‘dirty tricks’ operations. As soon as Labour won the February 1974 election, MI5 began destabilising Harold Wilson and his policies in Northern Ireland. In May 1974, the Power-sharing Executive was brought down by the Ulster Workers’ Council strike – […]
[…] the newspapers printed the accusations contained within it. The Guardian of February 21, 1985, printed a full account of the story; In it Cathy Massiter, a former MI5 officer, blew the whistle on MI5 activities and named Harry Newton as a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of […]
[…] George Wigg; but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic wars between MI5 and MI6, Maurice Oldfield, Chief of MI6, used Pincher to denigrate MI5, notably via a couple of stories supporting Harold Wilson’s claims that he was the […]
[…] when Crozier tried to substantiate his case by submitting a sheaf of articles and interviews with Fidel Castro as ‘proof’ of the Institute’s contacts. At this point MI5 began an investigation of Professor Fred Halliday who had links with IPS. After investigations lasting a year — which included putting Halliday on the Customs ‘black […]
[…] after checking them out with TV’s Diverse Reports programme, has received a statement, made in 1978, which not only confirms the allegations made, but also describes how MI5 was responsible for a campaign of denigration against Holroyd after he resigned his Commission in the Army. This statement, which is highly detailed, was given to […]
[…] campaigning group, funded by individuals and institutes in friendly Nato(3) countries, in order to counter subversive propagandists in peace time.’ They had to do this because ‘ MI5 has a policy of doing nothing at all to punish or deter agents of influence….’ because ‘it is not illegal to co-operate in peace-time with hostile […]
[…] (—–) I was contacted by an official of the Ministry of Defence. We met at a government address in Whitehall where I was introduced to officers from MI5. After a number of meetings and discussions, I agreed to act as a freelance operative, which I did until (—–). During this period I found my […]
[…] main points. And if it isn’t very clear it’s because the Sunday News report is pretty fuzzy in places. The bugging led to the discovery that Britain’s MI5 had recruited a group (numbers unspecified) of Irish Special Branch personnel, apparently to get information on IRA activities in Dublin. One of the MI5 recruiters was […]
[…] Times journalist in the 1960s and 1970s, for 17 years The Times’ Home Affairs correspondent when it still was the voice of the ‘British establishment’. Evans knew MI5 people and got material from them. He also got material from IRD (unidentified by Evans) but these IRD briefings were ‘too right-wing’ to be used. Then […]
[…] found David Kelly’s body and thus ‘helped to bring closure for the family.’(6) Unofficial histories and authorised versions Described by its publisher as ‘the definitive history of MI5 and MI6’, Gordon Thomas’s Inside British intelligence: 100 years of MI5 and MI6 (London: JR Books), hit the shelves in May, despite the best efforts of […]
