The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] networks which SOE had created should remain beyond the end of the war – and that they should so continue under his control and not that of SIS (MI6), who were attempting to instigate a turf war. Roundell Palmer (the 3rd Earl of Selborne), in his position as Minister for Economic Warfare, was the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] ‘chargé of the Cuban embassy in Chile says there is no doubt that the CIA or “other Yankees” assassinated the president’.28 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 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] ‘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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] . . (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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] . . (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 […]

Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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, […]

007’s real mission continues

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[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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] . . (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 […]

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