[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] which anyone not asleep at the wheel has taken for granted for years; some fragments on the MI5-MOD-Tory Party operations against CND; and one (conveniently dead) alleged MI5 agent, Harry Newton. Yet no journalist to my knowledge has ever got paranoid about her, seriously wondered if she was part of some wider operation. (I […]
[…] and its effects on a range of activities: telecommunications, defence: Army, Navy, DoD, public services, financial and business, etc Intelligence David Shayler http://www.shayler.com/ Official website of former MI5 officer David Shayler and his allegations concerning MI5 malpractice; Shayler’s first statement from prison; his letters to MI5 chief Stephen Lander and to the Guardian; how […]
[…] Police and the Parachute Regiment. In 1980 Murray became increasingly involved in investigating the activities of journalists, TV producers, MPs and former military officers. At that point MI5 expressed an interest in his range of contacts and invited him to become an asset. But after just two years he became disillusioned and resigned from […]
[…] disclosures relating to security and intelligence matters in court (see below), and the prosecution had to be given advance notice of questions he intended to ask four MI5 witnesses, screened from the public and press. The jury were therefore unable to be told about important allegations including the involvement of MI6 in a plot […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
