[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a web of intelligence intrigue, in league with British intelligence, Mossad and probably the Salvation Army, has found his way into the arms of the very same MI5 he is always going on about. Searchlight first ran into this now very paranoid “researcher” back in 1988. Since then he has found his way into […]
[…] Bulletin, January 1986, p. 3. Yorkshire Post, 18 February 1986. Organisers Bulletin, January 1986, p. 3. On the subject of photographs, a better way of Special Branch/ MI5 ascertaining just exactly what every key NF activist (as opposed to paper member) looked like could hardly have been devised. It really speaks of extraordinary incompetence […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
