[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] issue in the books section, on pages 50 and 51 there is an extract from a memorandum written by G. K. Young in 1955 while he was SIS no. 2. This is as clear an exposition as I have seen of the view of the spy as society’s elite which underpins so many of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] At the same time the State would provide all citizens with a ‘dividend’ designed not just to guarantee a basic minimum but also to avoid economic cri sis resulting from ‘under-consumption’, the curse of modern capitalism. Social Credit ideas attracted a lot of attention in the 1930s and became the foundation of a successful […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] career. And new contributors appeared: Dr Larry O’Hara; Alex Cox (another Kennedy assassination buff); Andrew Rosthorn; John Newsinger; Tom Easton; the late Corinne Souza (who wrote about SIS which had employed her Iraqi father); Simon Matthews; John Burnes and Dr T P Wilkinson, to name the most prolific. Regular early contributors were Jane Affleck […]
[…] 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 […]
