[PDF file]: […] holds any information which falls within scope of your request.’ However . . . exemption 23(5) can only be used when the information relates to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, […]
[PDF file]: […] sure that Wallace had been unjustly treated was that I had talked to my friend, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, Tony Cavendish, another senior member of the Intelligence Community was equally uncomfortable, as was Field Marshal Sir John Stanier. I knew them well, and wrote both their obituaries for the Independent. I heard you […]
[PDF file]: […] the same time as Starmer was trotting out his five ‘mission statements’ in February, I was engaged in a discussion with a friend about the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, ChatGPT. ChatGPT goes far beyond the now familiar ‘virtual assistants’ and chatbots one finds on many corporate websites, which rarely if ever answer your […]
[PDF file]: […] in a hut on the Spanish side of the fence. The future Soviet double agent Kim Philby had also recently been in Gibraltar, serving as British counter- intelligence chief in Iberia. The simultaneous presence of Maisky and Sikorski in Gibraltar proved tricky for Mason-Macfarlane.15 He had negotiated in Moscow in 1942 to persuade Stalin […]
[PDF file]: […] handling of the very significant Tyler Kent/Right Club events which might have had a serious impact on WW2, delaying American entry; and the careful debriefing of Soviet intelligence defector Krivitsky, the first of its kind. Versions of these events, based on the same files, are in Christopher Andrew’s Defence of the Realm and had […]
[PDF file]: […] proposed rule changes. I am sure this exercise will have involved at some point party staff too, herding their constituency delegates in the right direction and sharing intelligence on the recalcitrant. Largely because of the lukewarm response from the trade unions, McSweeney didn’t get everything that he asked for, but the changes that were […]
[PDF file]: […] Florida, a Miami Police Department informant had reported that Milteer had been making ominous remarks about someone shooting Kennedy during a forthcoming motorcade in Miami.1 Miami PD’s intelligence unit duly passed this worrying information to the US Secret Service and, since Milteer lived in Georgia, to the Atlanta offices of the FBI. In the […]
[PDF file]: […] that disastrous campaign, we heard a fair bit of comment that the Americans should have listened to the Brits because the British state – its military and intelligence – is good at counterinsurgency.2 Newsinger’s account of British CI campaigns since 1945 shows that this is a delusion. With the exception of a couple of […]
