[…] dubious at the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘ MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] his son some useful experience.’ Goodhart also told me about ‘meeting security service people at a couple of seminars’ and ‘one dinner’. Goodhart downplayed these meetings with MI5 officials, but added, ‘Yes I support the security services, don’t you?’ Prospect, founded in 1995, now has a healthy 28,000 circulation. Its generally centre left stance […]
[PDF file]: […] what happened in the past 20 years of preemptive wars in West Asia and the Middle East was reflected in the contribution of Lady Manningham-Buller, the former MI5 deputy chief. She told the Lords that when she and the head of MI6 met the Bush team in Washington shortly after 9/11, ‘the decision was […]
[…] biggest political scandals in our domestic politics since the end of WW2. In a different society, the discovery that British policemen and women, managed and directed by MI5, had infiltrated and spied upon virtually every group on the left from tenants’ groups upwards, would have led to major changes in the way the state […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service ( MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his connections to the intelligence world. On the Web […]
[…] dubious at the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘ MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA […]
[PDF file]: . . . and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True Story of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a […]
[…] dubious at the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘ MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] himself (contrary to what would later appear about him in his obituaries) appeared modest, not particularly bitter, and intelligent. The programme did not mention his claims about MI5, the CIA et al in detail but did remind viewers that the specific reason for his demise was being deemed responsible for the broadcasting of George […]
