[PDF file]: […] almost unanimously continued to support Israel. ‘Careers Ended Over Ukraine: Tim Weiner and Sir Richard Dearlove on Trump’s CIA. A Pulitzer-winning reporter and a former chief of MI6 sit down together, and neither of them can find much to reassure you’ 13 6 14 He is astonished to see European countries going along with […]
Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review […]
[…] loss stories and Labour-is-useless pieces, every once in a while they carry something interesting. For example, on 23 November Glen Owen wrote ‘Covid inquiry evidence which criticised MI6 for denying Wuhan lab leak theory was censored by security officials’.1 Owen reported: Security officials censored a submission to the Covid Inquiry which highlighted the failure […]
[…] Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]
[PDF file]: […] person to promote the suicide suggestion, said his death was ‘ . . . investigated by the local police, the county police, Scotland Yard, Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present because the Americans were interested in this’. Goslett continues: ‘It is unclear how Mangold was […]
[…] Sir Walter Walker and David Stirling, which have been much discussed in these columns. The Russian ‘threat’ Luke Harding of the Guardian has been an outlet for MI6 for quite a while which has enabled his successful career as journalist and author. But as Craig Murray has shown, relying on official sources – let […]
[PDF file]: […] Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a […]
[PDF file]: […] me again’. (pp. 20, 22, 25). 1 At the time, he was thinking of a career in journalism, but instead, after Cambridge, he eventually ended up in MI6, as one does. He was sent to Russia in April 1990 and ended up head of the Russia Desk. How convincing is this self-portrayal? Obviously one […]
[…] Sir Walter Walker and David Stirling, which have been much discussed in these columns. The Russian ‘threat’ Luke Harding of the Guardian has been an outlet for MI6 for quite a while which has enabled his successful career as journalist and author. But as Craig Murray has shown, relying on official sources – let […]
[PDF file]: […] Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran operations in Northern Ireland’. (p. 23) 2 ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he was still […]
