[…] in the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s)? And might ‘the Chief’ have been Maxwell Knight (whose free-enterprise intelligence gathering organsiation became a semi-autonomous part of MI5 in 1931)? Or was the whole thing just a hoax designed to discredit the CP and sow the mutual suspicion in the Party’s ranks? Reply c/o […]
[…] in Curzon Street’s Leconsfield House failed to give him the pension they promised, the 20-year pension he had earned with the Admiralty but lost when he joined MI5. If he had been one of those scores of titled gentlemen who work for British Intelligence, whether on staff or freelance, you can be sure he […]
[…] biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were […]
[…] Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. It is not clear that he did so. However, a little while later, in an unrelated episode, Wolkoff was asked by an agent MI5 had planted in the Right Club if she would send a message (the text of which had been drafted by MI5) to Germany by giving it […]
[…] in Claridge’s hotel was ‘permanently bugged’. He casually tells us that Oxfam and the Red Cross — and, by implication, many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern […]
[…] system …. he suffered dismissal, later changed to resignation, because he spoke out against the methods being used by intelligence staff.” Holroyd says Wallace was ‘neutralised’ by MI5 because of what he knew. Did that go as far as fitting him for murder? Wallace’s precise position in Northern Ireland still isn’t clear. It was […]
[…] copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the story and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/ MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the attack on Fred Holroyd because he was on holiday and out of […]
[…] In America, for example, this was reflected by Edward Epstein (one of Angleton’s most devoted followers) in his book Legend; in this country via the likes of MI5 channels like Chapman Pincher, the ‘Fourth Man’ episode, and the so-called Hollis affair. Golitsyn now has a book out, New Lies For Old (London 1984) written […]
[…] in the Army’s Information Policy unit. In his column Livingstone tells us that after his maiden speech: ‘Rumours began to circulate that Kinnock had been warned by MI5 that if he did pursue these claims, then damaging stories about Labour MPs’ sexual and financial peccadilloes would be leaked to journalists. MI5 wasn’t joking. Pictures […]
[…] as Hann Redwin, one of the people at the centre of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal in the 1970s, and who subsequently claimed to have been working for MI5, was involved in a climbing accident in the Alps. Colin Wallace The Observer (12 December, 1993) reported that a proposed BBC drama-documentary, based on the Paul […]
