[…] gave me a list of MPs (about 20) and a list of correspondents (about 70). The only correspondent whose name I recall is Bee Carthew, another former SIS officer. Generally ‘correspondents’ were Tory Party members active in various parts of the country. I would circulate a draft which the correspondents would use as a […]
[…] Pacific is Peace Researcher; Journal of the Anti-Bases Campaign. I have received issue 5 which includes several interesting, well documented pieces on the activities of ASIO, A SIS, the US Air Force in the region, and on GCHQ’s move from Hong Kong to Australia. Overseas subscriptions are $25 Australian per annum, to Peace Researcher, […]
[…] to signify. Since when, if he has produced another issue I haven’t heard of it. Steve Dorril is very good at what he does, his book on SIS is a huge achievement; as I said in my review of it in Tribune, it is a landmark in the field. He just isn’t – and […]
[…] Howard Smith with Philip Woodhead as his desk man in London, MI6 handled their Kincora agents through a number of ‘cut-outs’ – the normal way of distancing SIS officers from events which might go wrong. The man who orchestrated the various activities of the Kincora Ring has been identified as a Lt. Colonel in […]
[…] recent years FARI’s members have included Cons. MP’s Julian Amery, Director of Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining; Amery is ex-British intelligence and probably still a link to SIS, Julian Critchley, Philip Goodhard and Tom Normanton, Director of Commercial Union Assurance (CUA) and Midland Bank; and Sir Ian Gilmour. Current FARI Chairman is Sir Frederick […]
[…] have been a con; that in fact the intelligence agencies remain as lawless and unaccountable as before despite having been placed on a statutory footing. Statutory ba sis The first piece of legislation to hit the statutory books was in 1989 the Security Service Act which placed MI5 on a statutory footing and provided […]
[…] the years when Crozier was engaged full-time in psychological operations, running a large network in the UK. Forum World Features in which, ‘with the full agreement of SIS would deal directly with CIA personnel’ (p. 71), was succeeded by the Institute for the Study of Conflict. After Sir Dennis Greenhill, Permanent Under-Secretary at the […]
[…] no power in the West or in the elites that are allied to the West that is now not wedded to some variation of the inevitability/desirability the sis. The security services of the West are now trained to see anti-globalisers, nationalists and socialists as all equal threats to security. They may often wear suits […]
[…] alleged US use of chemical weapons during ‘Desert Storm’. Next issue, David: no room in this one. The appearance of Stephen Dorril’s massive and impressive book on SIS — reviewed below – set me thinking about the direction Lobster has taken. When Lobster began in 1983 there seemed every point in collecting and publishing […]
[…] of his in Punch – issue 93 in the present, post Al Fayed, takeover series – he comments on the hypocrisy of his persecution while the former SIS officer with the pseudonym Alan Judd, gets access to the diary of early MI6 chief Mansfield Cummings: ‘I know Alan Judd’s real name, but I can’t […]
