[…] Conservative Party donors (perhaps that should now be ‘investors’). I presume that the author is the David Rose who confessed a while back to having been an SIS asset.2 6 Encounter and the CIA A seminar on ‘Encounter, the CIA, the IRD and the relationship of British intellectuals with the Establishment’ was held in […]
[PDF file]: […] Butler, while the Prime Minister kept a file on Samuel Hoare, receiving reports on his movements in Spain from an agent with the code-name of Harlequin.6 Both SIS and the Foreign Office were aware of Hoare’s contacts with the well-connected Liechtensteinian and pro-German go-between Max von Hohenlohe (who was in fact an SS member).7 […]
[PDF file]: Her Majesty’s secret servants Robin Ramsay SIS and Libya H enry Kissinger is widely quoted as having once said that ‘America has no friends, only interests’; and when push comes to shove this is true for all states. This island has been called something like ‘perfidious Albion’ for almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition […]
[PDF file]: […] documentation and testimony from respectable eyewitnesses before reaching their conclusions. This often means that a very high level of proof is required before they engage in analy sis of problematic events in the recent past. This is curious on two counts. Firstly, when studying ancient history, for instance, academics often base significant theories and […]
[PDF file]: […] the intelligence agencies, he writes mostly about the impact of the German BND – From the Book Depository or . 1 2 the equivalent of the UK’s SIS – which does what our spooks do: uses the mass media to run stories and journalists to act as agents for it. As the book’s original […]
[PDF file]: […] chemist, to see a doctor as he had been ill for several months with ulcer problems, had become despondent, and was now suffering from a severe psycho sis. That’s the story as reported at the time. An open and shut case: Olson had a cocktail of medical problems, both physical and mental, so it […]
[PDF file]: […] 5 American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action had editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used […]
[PDF file]: […] MI6 after these reports emerged, it was stated that this had been the MI6/LIFG plot in action. Shayler took MI6 at their word and had no ba sis for this belief (that the LIFG were responsible) other than the fact that it was MI6 officer ‘PT16B’ – now known to be David Watson – […]
[PDF file]: […] corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain’s main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 ( SIS), staffed by ‘men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling’s “Great Game”, and often after earlier […]
[PDF file]: […] following paragraphs are from chapter 3 of that report.6 para 391 We are satisfied that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora, and they learnt of that when it became the 4 . One-time […]
