[PDF file]: […] and in his books that the role of the Auxiliary Units has been exaggerated by the passage of time. He argues that it was that efforts of MI6 which were most influential in the establishment of a staybehind network. I disagree – and not just because MI6 had insufficient resources within the UK for […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Churchill government. Prior to departing on his mission for Finland, Borenius was briefed by Claude Dansey and sent with the knowledge of the head of MI6, Colonel See or and also or the conclusion of which appears to be at odds with the facts. 28 Quoted in Matthew & Harrison (eds.), The […]
[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
[PDF file]: […] Archer’s by-election win, left the job undone, so we tried again, many years later; and this further chance was lost.’ 2 (emphasis added) Cavendish had been an MI6 officer. He worked with George K. Young in the UNISON Committee for Action, a militia formed as one of the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These […]
[PDF file]: […] or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters’) but, instead, Provision 27 (which covers ‘International Relations’). The argument from the FCO – and, by direct association, from MI6 – is that the release of the additional names would harm current or future relations with other nations and that: ‘The FCO has argued that the […]
[PDF file]: […] agencies and the impact upon people’s privacy as the agencies seek to find the needles in the haystacks that might be crucial to safeguarding national security.’15 Former MI6 officer, Alan Petty, who writes as Alan Judd: ‘Realistically, however, we’ve no alternative but to go on as before. We have enemies, as Andrew Parker reminds […]
[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 Sûreté de l’Etat, SDRA and PIO, apartheid South Africa’s BOSS, and the Swiss and […]
[PDF file]: […] Co-operation Council (linking Iraq to Jordan, Egypt and Yemen) despite the fact that this was very obviously an arms procurement conduit for weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of components for the Iraqi ‘Babylon’ Supergun, disavowing its murdered agent Jonathon Moyle in Chile, and allowed British businessmen at Matrix-Churchill, who […]
