[…] movement – the Trades Union Congress. If you lived through the late 1960s and 1970s and believed much of the British media (which was being fed by MI5), the British union movement, led by those evil men of the left, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, was on the verge of a communist take- over […]
[…] He refers to MI5’s analysis of the “45 minute report” and highlights the original circulation of the document to various departments. The usual suspects are there: SIS, MI5, GCHQ and MOD get between 7 copies for MI5 and 20 copies for MI6. But also listed are 32 (yes 32) copies for the DTI. Why? […]
[…] MI5/dirty pictures case from 1964…….. and it still isn’t clear to me what was going on. One of the articles the world might have survived without is ‘MI5, 1909-1945: an information management perspective’ by Black and Brunt in the Journal of Information Sciences, 26 (3) 2000. What next, the Kennedy assassination: a catering perspective? […]
[…] Cradock, Know your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World (London: John Murray, 2002). 25 This is one reason why I was not surprised when MI5 announced the preparation of its official history – a best-seller in the making, with I assume, the profits on this occasion going to the taxpayer – […]
[…] case ‘doesn’t follow the accepted pattern of burglaries’.(16) But if it was not a bungled theft, by an admittedly very special burglar, what was the intruder’s motive? MI5, Zeus and nuclear protest Some writers believe that it was the determination of the Thatcher government to push through a highly ambitious nuclear power programme which […]
[…] then mainly in Europe. This isn’t overly eurocentric on Dorril’s part: his preface states that he intends to publish another volume on the roles of MI6 and MI5 with reference to counter-insurgency in the Third World. This will give more attention to South East Asia and Africa than was possible in the present volume. […]
[…] SIS ‘began, as early as 1943’ to divert efforts from defeating the Nazis to menacing Stalin and his ‘greatly exaggerated’ version of wartime rivalry between SIS and MI5. The first of these claims is just wrong. What Philby actually says is that between the wars SIS was devoted mainly to the defence of Britain […]
[…] Affairs Research Institute (FARI). John Bruce Lockhart (Obituary, Independent 13 May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, […]
[…] here concerns Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple of years of the Labour government of 1964/5, had been Wilson’s advisor on MI5 and MI6. This relationship came to grief when Wilson followed Wigg’s advice in the D-Notice Affair and came off worst in a pissing contest with MI5. […]
[…] (HEE Proceedings, vol. 132, Pt. 1, No. 4, July 1989). Viscount Ruthven: Section D (MI6) Cairo with Freya Stark (Sunday Telegraph 5 August 1990). Commander Bill Emmet: MI5 Italy WW2 (Daily Telegraph 2 November 1985). G.J. Deverell: MI6 station chief Budapest 1941 (Letter, The Times, 22 April 1991). Douglas Gordon: British Consul-General Aden, expelled […]
