[…] Littlejohn episode in 1973. Although Bloch and Fitzgerald (in their British Intelligence and Covert Action) give a more exhaustive account of the affair, their description of the MI6 informer inside the C3 subversion branch of the Garda as “Sergeant Patrick Crinnion” belittles his significance as an MI6 source. Kelly records that Crinnion was in […]
How MI6 and the CIA were involved in the death of Princess Diana Jon King and John Beveridge New York: SPI Books, 2002, £18.95 In the five years since the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, interest in Diana herself may have waned, (1) but the circumstances surrounding […]
[…] be said again. The spooks aren’t regulated. Because they resist regulation we are (rightly) suspicious of them. But what isn’t in this Lobster is the lists of MI6 officers published on the Cryptome website. Twenty years ago such a list, had it come my way, would have been a major item. These days it […]
[…] of surprise Last, but by no means least: nobble the opposition. No messy fiddling with the votes – go straight to the voters themselves. Hats off to MI6, who proved themselves the masters of this tactic in 1924, when the UK’s first-ever Labour government was seeking to be returned to power. With the Russian […]
[…] only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. xii, xiii) But on p. xii of the preface he tells us he ‘worked with’ the CIA, MI6 and IRD; on p. 20 he tells that briefings he had been getting from an MI6 officer secured for him the job as editor of the […]
[…] it. From John Hope In Lobster 39 David Turner claims to have ‘solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight’, asserting that Knight was ‘working for MI6 from 1924-25 to 1931’ via a private intelligence agency used by MI6 to furnish information on communists in Britain. Alas, the matter is more complex and […]
[…] us…. Tatler (June 1984) Robert Harris reports on the spy recruitment procedures. There was some talk of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act for naming MI5 and MI6 premises. They are: MI5 recruitment (positive vetting) – 140 Gower St., London WC1 and 14-17 Great Marlborough St., London WC1 MI6 recruitment – 3 Carlton Gardens, […]
[…] acquitted and died in 1962 as a result of an air accident in South-East Asia. Faulks, in reporting this tale, suggested that Bodington may have been an MI6 agent before the war (he had been a journalist) and that the connection between him and Dericourt involved more than friendship. Curiously, Faulks left it there. […]
[…] it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service (MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert Action last year was considered provocative in this respect. The book contains an […]
[…] Kelly’s body and thus ‘helped to bring closure for the family.’(6) Unofficial histories and authorised versions Described by its publisher as ‘the definitive history of MI5 and MI6’, Gordon Thomas’s Inside British intelligence: 100 years of MI5 and MI6 (London: JR Books), hit the shelves in May, despite the best efforts of the government […]
