[…] the secret state seemed important and powerful. These days it doesn’t seem so significant. Would the average MP today be more afraid of the Daily Mail or MI5? How powerful can MI6 be if it is unable to withstand being co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on […]
[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, […]
[PDF file]: […] years before 7/7. However, they still had half a dozen instances where they had Mohammad Siddique Khan identified with his name, phone numbers, vehicles and addresses. Nonetheless, MI5 maintain that they never had any idea that he was going to become a suicide bomber. This is a fine example of doublethink because in excusing […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] up again in relation to ‘AQIM’. Abu Qatada was a recruiter for both the EIJ and the Algerian Islamic Group (GIA), and editor of the GIA’s newsletter. MI5 agent Reda Hassaine said: ‘I saw Qatada brainwash young Muslims, living in Britain from Africa, Somalia, 38 MoD, see note 22, p. 16. Center for Strategic […]
[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, […]
[…] pages of it, a fascinating read, is at On Rometsch see . the NSA/GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus […]
[PDF file]: […] Meese, Reagan’s foreign affairs advisor, and sworn to secrecy. The British cabinet set up a secret sub-committee to oversee the project, with both the Home Office ( MI5) and the FCO (MI6) ordered to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project […]
[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 […]
