[…] Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer about Holden’s last telexes. Later, McCormick told him some telexes relating to Holden were missing. ‘Christ! Is there a spy in the department?’ the operator […]
[PDF file]: […] to interest Western governments in this. Patrick Karegeya actually visited London (it was on this occasion that Wrong first met him) and handed ‘the recordings over to MI6, which circulated them around the Foreign Office and Department for International Development’. In the USA, the recordings were handed over to the FBI. As she points […]
[PDF file]: […] Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll’ served as a distraction from political struggle and party discipline. To flesh out the theory, extra villains have been thrown in: Satanists, MI6, shrinks of the Tavistock Institute, the Grateful Dead, and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (whose Marxist musicologist, Theodor Adorno, is said to have secretly tutored […]
[PDF file]: […] week-long sequence of events starting in late October. One, British Airways chairman Martin Broughton complains about the UK ‘kowtowing’ to the United States on airport security.1 Two, MI6 chief Sir John Sawers gives a lecture saying why his service should be excluded from general government cuts.2 Three, we have an international terror scare, with […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] the split is twice as much research into a field that is mostly ignored by the mainstream press. Both are worth investigating for their research on MI5, MI6 and other covert state activities, research that is largely unavailable elsewhere. While Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, […]
[PDF file]: […] the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and 18 British army soldiers at Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a […]
[PDF file]: […] uncovered you unload upon him all the blame for every unsolved 28 See West (see note 23) p. 850. ‘Was Kim Philby offered escape to Moscow by MI6 agent?’, Daily Mail 1 March 2014 or . 29 30 See note 29. ‘In from the cold: a new book reveals the inner world of British […]
[PDF file]: […] claimed that meetings between Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax and Rudolf Hess took place in Spain and Portugal between February and April 1941.24 On Stewart Menzies, Chief of MI6, Channon notes (5 January 1942): ‘Stewart Menzies is an old acquaintance and greeted me warmly I found Stewart sympathetic and sensible He is balanced and Conservative […]
[PDF file]: […] days of Elizabeth I and Francis 17 18 Walsingham. This explains the continual presence of the present Queen in the background of many narratives concerning MI5 and MI6. It’s more than simply the ultimate loyalty of the two services to the head of state rather than to her government, it’s a matter of living […]
[PDF file]: […] specialist apps such as speech recognition which can “spot” and translate particular voices from hours’ worth of intercept recordings. The deal will also allow GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 to conduct faster searches on each other’s databases.2 In the same report: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre […]
