[PDF file]: […] Lady Falkender, and erratic judgement in general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were quietly removed. One reading of this would be as follows: […]
[…] 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 […]
[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, […]
[…] years later suggest the incident was a deliberate sting on the part of the Colombian secret services.’24 Trump Well, it’s getting complicated, isn’t it? I saw former MI5 officer, whistle-blower and privacy campaigner Annie Machon speaking just after Donald Trump was sworn in. She was very good, confident and fluent until she was asked […]
[PDF file]: […] was ‘groomed’ by the KGB during the mid-1980s. When he was vetted to become special adviser to Norman Lamont in the Treasury in 1990, Cameron supposedly told MI5 about the incident.4 4 Speaking to students at the University of Moscow in 2011, Mr Cameron said: 42 Sir Maurice was a Parliamentary Counsel, one of […]
[…] the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of history […]
[PDF file]: […] of history, a Bletchley Park version of history, a Naval Intelligence version of history, a JIC version off history, an SOE version of history, and, finally, an MI5 vision of history. Although the strands were distinct, however, the process of creating them was intertwined. The dominant versions also left out a great deal. In […]
