[…] one. This has been produced to a high standard as befits a book that intends becoming the definitive account of the relationship between the British intelligence and security services, and what finally became, after a bitter and highly divisive struggle, both north and south of the border, the 26 county Republic of Ireland (Eire). […]
[…] star chamber where he wasn’t allowed to call his own witnesses, cross-examine anyone or to be legally represented.’ In letters to the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee and John Wadham of Liberty, who has been acting for him, Tomlinson alleged that SIS planned to assassinate the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevich in 1992 […]
[…] in Liverpool is so great that there is an involvement by Special Branch because, and I believe I am right in quoting, it has implications for national security. I gave them specific items of information concerning Derek Hatton and other individuals in Liverpool. They went down, Hounam went down, and checked out the information […]
The apparent re-election of George W. Bush as US President seems to have its roots in a mechanical failure. On 12 March 2004, a car went out of control on a busy highway and propelled itself in front of an 18-wheeler. The driver – an African-American clergyman called Athan Gibbs – was killed outright. Gibbs, … Read more
[…] soon revealed (and confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency (NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to his controller, ‘Now I will try my cannons .’ Axed also by our NSA, […]
[…] and evasive piece of work. The House of Lords debate on the Intelligence Services Bill, 9 December, 1993 Lord (Roy) Jenkins of Hillhead: ‘I experienced in the Security Service what I can best describe as an inherent lack of frankness, an ingrowing mono-culture, and a confidence-destroying tendency to engage in the most devasting internal […]
[…] said he had been an informant in this entire Bristol period, and had driven Jordan on his reconnaissance expeditions to the home of Colonel Baty, while the security services in one guise or another paid for the petrol and his time off work.(2) Jordan pleaded guilty at his trial. Patrick Brazil, the seaman and […]
[…] was LSD. The plan’s main thrust was the ‘method of approach to prospective volunteers’ who were to be selected from official personnel, based on their records and security clearance information. It called upon the proper code of conduct for volunteers, requiring them to sign a security statement. The volunteers were to be examined physically […]
[…] Labour Government. In Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-76 using as their starting point information from former members of the security services and the British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series […]
[…] were disidentified, though no one is able to say why. According to Newsweek, however, the order to remove the tags was issued by Robert Pastor, the National Security Council’s staff coordinator for Latin American and Caribbean affairs. Asked about this, Pastor denies that he gave such an order, adding that it would have been […]
