[…] (Operation Gold) 1956 F.O. 1957 1st Sec.Bonn 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut – Chief of Station 1968 1st Sec. F.C.O. 1972 Retired (wrote official – secret – history of MI6) MCNAUGHT, Eustace Arthur Born 18/2/22 1942-47 H.M.forces 1948 Control Commission, Germany 1953 F.O. 1956 2nd Sec. Tripoli 1959 F.O. 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut 1967 F.O. 1968 […]
Tom Bower, Heinemann, London This is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White’s memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, […]
[…] Co Ltd (the British holding company of Royal Dutch Shell), corporate member of the Anglo-German Fellowship; founder of Samuel’s (merchant bank); trustee of National and Tate Galleries. MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service). Advocated negotiated peace, 1940. Club: Carlton, White’s, Orleans, Burlington Fine Arts, Buck’s, Bath, Beefsteak. (Stokes, Lobster 19) Beaverbrook (Lord) William Maxwell Aitken, newspaper […]
[…] the Catholics in the North in 1970 when there appeared to be a serious threat of pogroms against them. The gunrunning scheme was exposed – possibly by MI6 – and when the politicians involved got cold feet, the Irish state tried make Kelly the sacrificial lamb. He resisted and triumphed in court. This is […]
[…] by the politicians, and not by the Civil Service – what he calls ‘the permanent government’ – and certainly not by the secret Civil Service, SIS ( MI6). For Verrier’s second thesis, the one I guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out front, in the final […]
[…] the head of his secret foreign intelligence service was in the employ of the enemy. It is well-known that this nightmare came near enough to reality for MI6, Britain’s CIA, at the beginning of the Cold War. H. A. R. ‘Kim’ Philby, that perfect spy, was quite possibly within a few months of becoming […]
[…] birth deformities caused by depleted uranium leaking into the atmosphere. It is tragic evidence that Saddam Hussein is stockpiling the material to make his own nuclear weapons. MI6 intelligence agents estimate 316 tons of radioactive dust seeped from a factory in Al Hillah, 100 miles south of Baghdad, 12 months ago.’ When depleted uranium […]
[…] was noted that, as far as Europe was concerned, the efficiency of this service had diminished considerably. (4) The contacts in 1980 between George Bush and ex- MI6 and Circle member Nicholas Elliott are even more interesting now that Bush has made it to the top; but perhaps the most significant element in the […]
[…] ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for example, I have acquired the idea that his second and third books, MI5: A Matter of Trust and MI6 were both something like in-house histories, given – edited no doubt – to Allason in the great spook rivalries of the 1980s. Is this true? Maybe […]
[…] refused publication by junior defence minister John Stanley (Observer 30 September) Special Branch SB attending Friends of the Earth and NCCL meetings in Manchester. (Guardian 29 November) MI6 Interesting piece on Tony Jones, London solicitor accused of being MI6/MI5 informant, including the information that Michael Bettaney was the source of the information, in Black […]
