[PDF file]: […] announced: ‘This is the personal account of the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1976 as seen through the eyes of the British Chargé d’Affaires and MI6 Head of Station in Beirut, Geoffrey Hancock.’ Oh, thought I, how many other memoirs by an MI6 Head of Station do we have? None that I […]
[PDF file]: […] nd then there as the case of Rory Stewart, new Tory MP for Penrith and the Border, still sort of trying to deny that he was an MI6 officer. A piece in the Telegraph 5 said ‘Stewart last year dismissed claims circulating on the internet that he himself had 4 At . 5 Jon […]
[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]: […] prisoner in Spandau. Karel Hille of the Dutch Tros channel produced a TV investigation titled De moord op de dubbelganger van Spandau, prompting the retired head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, to arrange for Hille to be given a Foreign Office personal file on Rudolf Hess for safekeeping abroad. Sir Maurice, a historian by […]
[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
[PDF file]: […] his experiences or 31 32 Thomas E. Mahl, ss (Dulles, Virginia: Brassey’s, 1999) 33 34 Armen Victorian’s account of this is at . 12 United States by MI6 during WW2. Under the light cover of British Security Coordination, with the permission of President Roosevelt, MI6 attacked the isolationist opposition to American’s entry into the […]
[…] (paper) pages from The Spectator of 13-27 December 2025 with ‘A secret life’ by James MacManus. This is a detailed account of the life of a senior MI6 39 The time has been established. See . 40 See . 13 officer, the late Roger Horrell.41 There was also an obituary of Horrell in The […]
[…] (paper) pages from The Spectator of 13-27 December 2025 with ‘A secret life’ by James MacManus. This is a detailed account of the life of a senior MI6 officer, the late Roger Horrell.33 There was also an obituary of Horrell in The Times but it is behind their paywall. However, the Telegraph obituary has […]
[…] (paper) pages from The Spectator of 13-27 December 2025 with ‘A secret life’ by James MacManus. This is a detailed account of the life of a senior MI6 officer, the late Roger Horrell.33 There was also an obituary of Horrell in The Times but it is behind their paywall. However, the Telegraph obituary has […]
[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 […]
