[PDF file]: […] bits and pieces in things like The Leveller and Time Out, and there was Statewatch.16 The Tory broadsheet newspapers had people who were obviously simply conduits for MI5 and 6. I used to buy the Sunday Telegraph in the late 1980s precisely because it was the MI6 outlet competing with the Sunday Times, edited […]
[…] volunteer, not an intelligence officer – in Northern Ireland, James Miller. Miller gave evidence to the Saville Inquiry but was was identified only as ‘Observer B’. His MI5 handler ‘Julian’ described him as ‘perfectly reliable and truthful’ and ‘an extremely brave fellow’. Julian also reported in that 15 also that Cunningham and Montgomery were […]
[PDF file]: […] FBI’ for fighting domestic crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War MI5 spooks and electronic surveillance by GCHQ. The outcome of ‘intelligence-led policing’ by undercover spies and police ghost squads was a three-way ‘investigative train crash’ in Manchester, […]
[…] hold back terror intelligence from Britain”’ in the Mail, 5 April 2012. David Rose describes the briefing process using this argument within Whitehall in ‘Furtive briefings by MI5 and the Government’s BIG LIE over secret justice’ in the Mail, 17 March 2012: ‘But the mere assertion, whispered so silkily by the plausible Mr Evans, […]
[PDF file]: […] was actually involved in editing and contributing to its short-lived journal, Socialist Alternative.2 It seems safe to assume that this would have made him of interest to MI5. His subsequent involvement with the Haldane Society and the journal Socialist Lawyer would have likely sustained this interest, along with his impressive involvement in such legal […]
[…] was actually involved in editing and contributing to its short-lived journal, Socialist Alternative.2 It seems safe to assume that this would have made him of interest to MI5. His subsequent involvement with the Haldane Society and the journal Socialist Lawyer would have likely sustained this interest, along with his impressive involvement in such legal […]
[…] contacts, plus Tippit a few times. Otherwise I can’t say who ran the safe house.’ In this paragraph he offers the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC) and MI5 Division 5, who were in a version of the assassination story circulating in the 1970s called The Torbitt Memorandum (which originated in the cast of characters […]
[PDF file]: […] hold back terror intelligence from Britain”’ in the Mail, 5 April 2012. David Rose describes the briefing process using this argument within Whitehall in ‘Furtive briefings by MI5 and the Government’s BIG LIE over secret justice’ in the Mail, 17 March 2012: ‘But the mere assertion, whispered so silkily by the plausible Mr Evans, […]
[…] 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]: […] have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the story as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid by Moscow to advance communism in Britain’. One of the most important of these Russian […]
