[PDF file]: […] my knowledge, MI6 did not block investigations in Kincora. Indeed, Craig Smellie supported the press briefings about Tara that I did in 1973.’ Smellie was the chief SIS officer in Northern Ireland and it does seem unlikely (at best) that Smellie would encourage press interest in Tara if SIS had an operational interest in […]
[PDF file]: […] government – which, at the time, many people put down to Wilson’s paranoia and his continuous skirmishing with the press. Not everyone will accept the authors’ analy sis or conclusions but there is sufficient evidence to make people go back and relive those events and wonder exactly what was going on and who was […]
[…] ‘chargé of the Cuban embassy in Chile says there is no doubt that the CIA or ‘‘other Yankees’’ assassinated the president’.27 The late Anthony Cavendish, the former SIS officer and friend of SIS Chief Maurice Oldfield, told me that when they heard of the assassination, his circle assumed it had been done by the […]
[PDF file]: […] the Army Estimates.’ (p. 54) In 1945 . . . ‘Despite the personal specificities of each history, a number of identifiable strands coalesced. Thus there was an SIS version of history, a Bletchley Park version of history, a Naval Intelligence version of history, a JIC version off history, an SOE version of history, and, […]
[PDF file]: […] . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James Bond, was to increase the prestige and morale of SIS, disgraced by the treasonous betrayal of the Cambridge spy ring. And according to most accounts he exceeded beyond all expectations. The British Secret Intelligence Service were […]
[…] . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James Bond, was to increase the prestige and morale of SIS, disgraced by the treasonous betrayal of the Cambridge spy ring. And according to most accounts he exceeded beyond all expectations. The British Secret Intelligence Service were […]
[…] . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James Bond, was to increase the prestige and morale of SIS, disgraced by the treasonous betrayal of the Cambridge spy ring. And according to most accounts he exceeded beyond all expectations. The British Secret Intelligence Service were […]
[…] . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James Bond, was to increase the prestige and morale of SIS, disgraced by the treasonous betrayal of the Cambridge spy ring. And according to most accounts he exceeded beyond all expectations. The British Secret Intelligence Service were […]
[PDF file]: […] comments in brackets are mine.) Professor Norman Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr Hanley (presumably Michael Hanley, some time […]
[…] comments in brackets are mine.) Professor Norman Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr Hanley (presumably Michael Hanley, some time […]
