[…] is going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in anger, yet nothing changes. […]
[…] in a world of plots and schemes and politics? A new quasi-secret police? This new co-ordinated system will, we are told, be expected to work closely with MI5. We may have, in effect, a new quasi-secret police in place, with community police officers possibly being transformed into part-time intelligence officers. SO15 (as it is […]
[…] was required under Official Secrets Act. But after privatisation…? Guardian 19th May Various allegations of tapping during miner’s strike – see miners and police in this issue. MI5 Two pieces by Duncan Campbell and Steve Connor on MI5’s new nationwide 200 terminal computer net. New Statesman 2nd March, New Scientist 1st March 1984. Pieces […]
[…] 1939 Irish Rifles (TA) London 1940 2nd Lt. KRRC Egypt 1941 8th Army 1943 GSOI (Intelligence) HQ 9th Army 1944 War Office 1945 Defence Security Officer (DSO) MI5, Palestine 1946 Demobbed Lt.Col. MI6 1950 Contested (for Cons.) Kettering 1952 Deputy Lt. Northants 1958-59 High Sheriff MENZIES, Maj. Gen. Sir Stewart Graham KCB (1951) KCMG(1943) […]
Philip Hoare, Duckworth Press, London, 1997, £16.99 The opening of MI5’s archives up to and including 1919 gives historians and researchers the chance to exhume the genesis of the right in British domestic politics as well as the early activities of the secret state. Despite its title (Oscar died in 1900) Hoare dips quite a […]
[…] St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson- MI5 story (Lobstergate?). I write this 24 hours after Colin Wallace made his first speaking appearance on British television, and very impressive it was too, despite the […]
[…] community in the United Kingdom believed that unorthodox methods and techniques were required in the war. The intervention of these groupings, which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated, Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it propaganda inspired by the terrorists and […]
[…] become MPs. Some of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role […]
[…] in the Guardian on May 27 as having been labour correspondent of the Economist in the 1970s. Was he, I thought, one of the correspondents recruited by MI5 in the big F branch expansion circa 1973-5? Did that explain all the disinformation run through the Sunday Times by James Adams, for example? Apparently not. […]
[…] other in their university days. It is the view of the anti-Hollis faction that during his interrogation in 1969, as part of the investigations into a possible MI5 mole, Hollis had been less than candid about his relationship with Cockburn. Suspicions were aroused by his faltering reply to questions concerning Cockburn. Connections between Hollis […]
