[…] 1990s there was quite a bit about Gerry Gable in these columns, much of it centred round the so-called ‘Gable memorandum’, a letter he apparently wrote to MI5. Bell comments on this: For many years, Gerry was the target of allegations that he secretly or 20 21 See, for example, and and . 22 […]
[…] 1990s there was quite a bit about Gerry Gable in these columns, much of it centred round the so-called ‘Gable memorandum’, a letter he apparently wrote to MI5. Bell comments on this: For many years, Gerry was the target of allegations that he secretly or 20 21 See, for example, and and . 22 […]
[…] 1990s there was quite a bit about Gerry Gable in these columns, much of it centred round the so-called ‘Gable memorandum’, a letter he apparently wrote to MI5. Bell comments on this: For many years, Gerry was the target of allegations that he secretly worked for the security services. This arose from a memo […]
[PDF file]: […] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.3 The great thing about […]
[…] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.3 The great thing about […]
[…] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.3 The great thing about […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia….. In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of […]
