[PDF file]: […] The feud is too complicated to be described in an obituary but Olivia Frank tackles it enthusiastically in The Third Direction. She describes a conversation after telling SIS officer Taylor that Volkan Karabudak, Asil Nadir’s security chief, was sending contracts for Olivia and Jim to join the Nadir security team in Istanbul. I wanted […]
[…] has given enough of his life in service to a state that appears unable to defend its most basic interests. (p. 81) Field officer Sharman resigns from SIS, becomes a consultant/researcher and stumbles across the traces of a Russian spy and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew […]
[PDF file]: […] Blood Year, an assessment of what Western strategy has achieved. The picture is pretty grim: ‘In the northern summer of 2014, in less than 100 days, I SIS launched its blitzkrieg in Iraq, Libya’s government collapsed, civil war engulfed Yemen, a sometime small-town Iraqi preacher named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself caliph, the latest […]
[PDF file]: ‘We’re doomed!’ A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks Nick Must The broadcasting by the BBC during the Christmas period 2015 of a comedy drama based around the creation of the Dad’s Army television series, reminded me of how the Home Guard were used during World War II as the cover for a […]
[PDF file]: […] Israeli outrage committed in that period. Soon after taking up his new post, he was interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show (1 May) on ‘the anti-Semitism cri sis’ in the Labour Party. and not Mann who was suspended from Labour Party membership shows what Corbyn is up against. Not only are there are many […]
[PDF file]: […] the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘ Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after the folk music lefties as part of its campaign against the Communist Party (CP). At […]
[PDF file]: […] college,190 and the The Economist, just in time for the fall of the Soviet bloc. Were she British I would wonder if that was her route into SIS. As an American, probably not. More likely it was just another stop on the way to her current prominent place among the apologists for liberal internationalism. […]
[PDF file]: […] suicide, and the young Jeffrey Archer’s by-election win, left the job undone, so we tried again, many years later; and this further chance was lost.’ 2 (empha sis added) Cavendish had been an MI6 officer. He worked with George K. Young in the UNISON Committee for Action, a militia formed as one of the […]
[PDF file]: […] possible intelligence background. Regardless of that, watching through the whole series recently, I spotted a some interesting moments. Firstly there was the amusing spectacle of seeing an SIS stringer in Malta portrayed as having an Austin Allegro as his work-provided drive! (This was quite likely true, for the late 70s, but still highly amusing.) […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. […]
