[…] on trial. A group of Special Branch officers – assisted by the BBC – broke the Official Secrets Act in a big way on television while an MI5 officer was on trial for the same offence. The programmes were dull, perfect examples of the way television takes a couple of pages of script and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of their instinctive pro-Soviet bias, which took a long time to shed. There is also an interesting account of the political manoeuvrings around Metrokhin and Norwood as MI5 and SIS tried to establish their respective spin on the story. SIS, who wanted a prosecution of Norwood (to show MI5 incompetence, I presume), gave the […]
[…] later edition.(5) In a separate development, a former member of the Security Service seeking authorisation to publish a book detailing the successes, failures and recruitment techniques of MI5 has been told he can bring a judicial review claim in the High Court after a legal ruling rejected the argument that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal […]
[…] sisters, many of whom live here and are British citizens, are deemed, without a shred of evidence, to be culpable of heinous deeds. (22) Meanwhile, SIS and MI5 launch a campaign to attract those from various ethnic groups living in Britain to sign up to Her Majesty’s secret services…..(23) Spook PR and War with […]
[…] British Intelligence through his Chairmanship of Polygraph Security Services, which imports the lie-detector, are worth investigation. Harrison was Special Branch liaison officer between the Sussex Police and MI5, and the officer who interrogated Captain Colin Wallace in Brighton after Wallace killed his lover’s husband. Small world. (3) * * * Still unreleased is the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] was not prepared simply to say no.’ (Implicitly: he never considered saying ‘yes’.) According to Cook: ‘The historian who compiled the report has had full access to MI5 and MI6 files’. This is not only dubious as the comments below by Gordon Brook-Shepherd show, it is also impossible to verify. Cook asserts that the […]
[…] 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 […]
