[…] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.(3) The great thing about […]
[…] as his one of his sub-agents. When Makgill died in October 1926, the agency was reorganised under the control of Baker White – and then incorporated into MI5 in 1931. There is plenty of archival evidence to show that under both Makgill and Baker White the IIB was used to undertake work and recruit […]
Ken Silverstein Verso, London (£19.00) and New York ($25.00), 2000 Ken Silverstein is co-editor of CounterPunch, a very good radical – left radical – newsletter in Washington (http://www. counterpunch.org/). This book is a group of essays centred round a central theme rather than an attempt to encompass the whole area of the relationship between the […]
Edward Pearce London: Little, Brown, 2002, £25, h/b. Compared to the present crop of media-trained, PR-conscious, line-following, careerist pigmies who comprise the current Labour Cabinet, Denis Healey looks like a giant from a golden age. Before his well known roles as Minister of Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer (during the Tory-induced inflation of […]
Michael Smith Gollancz, London,1996, £20 This is a curious and rather pointless book. In short chapters Smith attempts potted histories of MI5, SIS, signals and military intelligence. These are quite well done, but covering half a century in 20 pages, say, the chapters are barely more than sketches. (The Information Research Department gets a […]
[…] services to monitor that.” ….The British official said: “The Americans run their own assets in the Pakistani community; they get their own intelligence. There’s close cooperation with MI5 but they don’t tell us the names of all their sources. Around 40 per cent of CIA activity on homeland threats is now in the UK. […]
[…] the introduction of a bill under which it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service ( MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert Action last year was considered provocative […]
All four of Tony Blair’s new political appointees at the Ministry of Defence are part of Labour’s Atlanticist network. Three of them, George Robertson, Lord John Gilbert and John Speller, are members of two interrelated bodies, the Atlantic Council and its labour movement wing, the Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). The […]
[…] bring together a good deal of what is known about the post-war Tory Party and its links with the secret state – in this case, almost exclusively MI5 – and various disinformation and smear campaigns against Labour Party politicians and union leaders. Some of this will be familiar to anyone who has read Smear!, […]
[…] happen when they retire, or at an earlier stage. For example, David Shayler was found employment in one of the London-based management consultancies when he first left MI5. (9) In the lobbying industry, one of the most influential was Major General Nigel Gribbon, who is now in his eighties. The General ended his career […]
