[…] part of what was known as the UDA’s No 1 Assassination Team’); and the role of James Miller, the mid-1970s version of Brian Nelson. Take a bow MI5, for penetrating the UDA completely, twice getting an agent into the role of UDA ‘intelligence officer’. Bruce, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, […]
[…] eventually the Metropolitan Police admitted that Special Branch had a file on me. Use of the DPA has also resulted (after years of trying) in confirmation from MI5 that they have had a file on me since 1997. The Data Protection Tribunal (DPT) I made a subject access request to MI5 under the 1998 […]
[…] justice perpetrated by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex- MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ After reading this I thought: sure, he is innocent and I’m Santa Claus! […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Literary Spying British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 James Smith Cambridge University Press, 2013, £55.00, h/b John Newsinger Smith’s book is an immensely valuable preliminary examination of the British secret state’s surveillance of ‘the left-wing writers and artists’ of George Orwell’s generation. As the author makes clear, the context was very different from the […]
[PDF file]: RING OF SPIES: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Cheltenham: The History Press, 2020, £20 Simon Matthews Flick through the 70 or so free view channels on your TV and you’ll come across at least half a dozen that specialise in slightly off-beat, but decently made and […]
British ‘USP’ In September 2000 the tragic case of two infants from Malta dominated the headlines.(1) British judges were asked to decide whether it was ‘right’ for doctors to sacrifice one child, joined at the abdomen with her twin, for the sake of the other. As a result of global press coverage, the moral arguments […]
