[PDF file]: […] the covert forum, the Cercle Pinay and its complex of groups. Amongst Cercle intelligence contacts are former operatives from the American CIA, DIA and INR, Britain’s MI5, MI6 and IRD, France’s SDECE, Germany’s BND, BfV and MAD, Holland’s BVD, Belgium’s S ret de l’Etat, SDRA and PIO, apartheid South Africa’s BOSS, and the Swiss […]
[PDF file]: […] had written for the Telegraph, wherein he’d said: ‘We must get past whatever Martini-drinking stereotypes may be lingering’. But surely it’s James Bond – and, by association, MI6 – that most people will associate (however tenuously) with Martini cocktails? Having been brave enough to venture over to the Torygraph website and, even more riskily, […]
[PDF file]: […] officers and the setting up of “fronts” as the war wound down. These fronts acted as intelligence gathering and recruitment centres and provided cover for MI9 and MI6 officers. It has been suggested that it is through these centres that the 4 Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death […]
[…] and John Newsinger recommends his Kitson’s Irish War in his review of Kitson’s memoir in this issue. Burke has a new book out, The Puppet Masters: How MI6 Masterminded Ireland’s Deepest State Crisis (Cork: Mercier A free on-line text at . 11 12 Under subhead More on Clockwork Orange. […]
[…] is America? Is it just personal greed? See no evil On a single day in mid August I found the following stories on dailymaverick.co.za: ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: […]
[PDF file]: […] crying out for their own Peter O’Toole. Allen is an intellectual and expert on Islamic calligraphy who has written a study of Arab Falconry. Yet the former MI6 officer also seems to have signed–off on the abduction and rendition of opponents of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to help secure an oil deal between the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] was held close, and nothing was written down’. Wilson was also an enthusiast for covert operations. He continued the Tories’ secret wars in Yemen and Indonesia, told MI6 to assassinate Idi Amin (they refused) and gave the United States considerable covert assistance in Vietnam. That Wilson kept Britain out of the Vietnam War is […]
[PDF file]: […] Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community has a […]
[PDF file]: […] a covert meeting than New Year’s Eve. I don’t think it would be surprising if the NK government had a suspicion that Danny Gratton was working for MI6, perhaps as a member of ‘the increment’ (as it has been called in the past).13 But although quite a plausible initial case can be made that […]
[PDF file]: […] is a testimony to the resistance of the CIA’s intelligence analysts. In the UK the estimates from the two main agencies, the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and MI6 (or SIS) are fed into the Joint Intelligence Committee which produces the final version. That, at least, is the theory. In practice, in this instance, the […]
