[…] of London.”(p76)) It is this period, when he made his fortune, that becomes the most interesting. From 1965 onwards, Cavendish was meeting Oldfield on a regular ba sis for lunch and bridge. His other close friend was George Kennedy Young who supplies the unusual foreword to the book. ‘Unusual’ because Young, who is generally […]
[…] of a ‘hung’ parliament may be talked up, is because its suggestion allows apolitical, and/or cross-party campaigners who are sometimes pan-national, to assert themselves on the ba sis they can advise, maybe even deliver voters – e.g. those anxious about climate change – thus giving the public affairs industry a short-term income boost as […]
[…] one man, a person identified as Henry Azadehdel.” ‘ Irving puts it this way to leave the reader to infer that the CIA had confirmed Irving’s the sis that these are aliases used by ‘Henry Azadehdel’. Unfortunately for Irving, another journalist interested in Armen, Craig Glenday, working on a multi-part series for Marshall Cavendish, […]
[…] Concluding and Performing Commercial Agreements; Property management (CCTV coverage of Thames House) www.dpr.gov.uk/search.html DPA 1998 s28 (4) The Security Service has received 46 requests, GCHQ 15 and SIS 30 requests to see personal files under the DPA 1998 (Hansard, Commons written answers, 18 January 2001). DPA 1998 schedule 6 DPA s28(5) For the rules […]
[…] Mao was the equivalent of Russia’s winning China chimed exactly with Burgess’s line, that Mao was the leader of a Russian-style Communism on a strict Leninist analy sis, only carrying it one stage further.’ (p. 214) In the section on the Profumo Affair, West states: ‘ Ward was being used by MI5 but, more […]
[…] hearing in Dutch Parliament by Jelle van Buuren (27/6/00): www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6870/1.html In the US: The House Select C’tee on Intelligence has been asking questions about the legal ba sis for NSA’s Echelon activities (US law severely limits the ability of the intelligence agencies to engage in domestic surveillance).(www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/echfaq3.htm) Attempts in Congress to make it a […]
[…] extremely smelly. “…key intelligence did not immediately reach Carrington, either raw, in summary or by way of assessment … At the Joint Intelligence Committee level, however, the SIS report (of a firm Argentine intention to invade – RR) ..was considered sufficiently important for the Chiefs of Staff to be informed.” (4) Tam Dalyell’s nose […]
[…] the internet in making available information in the public interest is clear; for example, John Young, of the cryptome site, had received telephone calls on behalf of SIS, asking him to remove the CX95 document (concerning MI6 involvement with a plot to kill Gaddafy) from his website, but refused. But should anything be published […]
[…] about the authenticity of the ‘Langemann report’, it contains a number of what appear to be striking errors: viz it describes Nicholas Elliot as “former director of SIS”. We are conscious of the fact that the report in PP/Intelligence may well be the end product of a complicated translation process: from German into French, […]
[…] 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 […]
