[…] But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the same as being a spy. During the war Ian Fleming knew Philby when he served as the MI6 man in the Iberian peninsula (that included Spain and Portugal), and Fleming was the Assistant to the Chief of British Naval Intelligence Admiral Godfrey. Fleming had […]
[…] government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to try and combat Russian disinformation’. ‘Nonsense’, wrote Klarenberg. ‘IFS/II was a NATO/ MI6 front organisation concerned with starting war with Russia.’ Well no, actually, it wasn’t. Begun in 2015, apparently as a response to the Russian annexing of the […]
[PDF file]: […] p. 127. 1 Jewish Chronicle, London, 15 January 2016: 2 Tamara Deutscher, preface to the Non-Jewish Jew And Other Essays, (London: Verso, 2017). 3 assistant chief of MI6 had released a large amount of hard currency to persuade Tancred Borenius to take a flight to neutral Portugal. From there he took a dangerous journey […]
[…] extension of SIS, this appointment added some little credence to the notion that John Smith, like his Glasgow University contemporary Baroness ‘Meta’ Ramsay, had been recruited by MI6 while a student.28 It might also help make intelligible Smith’s role on the Bilderberg steering group. What is The Guardian? An interesting piece on The Guardian […]
[PDF file]: […] Mitrokhin’s files, or had it been added by Dr Andrew?’ (p. 313) Symonds does not tell the reader that Andrew’s sources could only have been MI5 or MI6: perhaps he thinks it too obvious to state. ‘Another bizarre assertion was that I had “made the dramatic claim that Denis Healey, the Secretary of State […]
[PDF file]: […] question and no-one on the committee asks him what he means. And no wonder he evaded it: for it was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) that MI6 (SIS) had been dickering with since the 1990s and which was the subject of some of the most disgusting real politik in which the British state […]
[PDF file]: MI5 speaks to the nation! Nick Must ‘How MI5 is adapting to fight coronavirus’1 was the headline on a BBC news online piece by Gordon Corera. In relation to that potential change in working practices, it quoted soon-to-depart MI5 chief, Sir Andrew Parker, thus: ‘You’ll understand if I don’t go into exactly the ways in […]
[…] children wept bitter tears on camera and no-one mentioned UK military aid to radical Islamists fighting Gaddafi. There are no references in the official report to SIS, MI6 or the Secret Intelligence Service.102 On the other hand, Nick Must noted that the report contains 76 references to ‘MI5’ and 213 to ‘Security Service’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear of exposure as a onetime NKVD agent with the attendant risk of trial, conviction and imprisonment. Klugmann had […]
[PDF file]: […] the Middle East was reflected in the contribution of Lady Manningham-Buller, the former MI5 deputy chief. She told the Lords that when she and the head of MI6 met the Bush team in Washington shortly after 9/11, ‘the decision was about al-Qaeda, its base in Afghanistan and its close relationship with the Taliban. I […]
