[…] A scuffle ensued among the exclusively male gathering, as a result of which the civil servant returned to London. The Counter Intelligence branch of the Secret Service, MI5, is now believed to be running the show in Northern Ireland after the removal of MI6’s top man in Ulster, David Wyatt. Mr Wyatt, a casualty […]
[…] This happens this is allowed to happen because there is virtually no political control over the security organisations: when they fuck-up nothing happens to them. MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. […]
[…] little on 1952, by inference he was working as a technical expert for the British government in the UK, and just beginning to work on secondment with MI5. According to Wright’s autobiography, and everything else that has appeared about him, this can’t be him. Wright was a boffin, one of the men in white […]
[…] as in no publication that I know of since David Miller’s Queen’s Rebels (Dublin, 1978).() While the authors are right not to accredit the 1974 strike to MI5 conspiracies, and to differentiate it from Paisley’s 1977 strike, they omit all reference to the activities of the secret state during this critical period. McDonald and […]
[…] Maurice Tugwell said: ‘Mooney had his own agenda. He reported to this extraordinary Foreign Office set-up that was run by Howard Smith, who later became head of MI5, in Belfast…It was the liaison office between the Foreign Office and the Northern Ireland situation. And whilst he (Mooney) kept the General Officer Commanding briefed he […]
[…] such quarters by reference to other views, even when readily available. For example he recounts (p. 67) the highly questionable Searchlight/World in Action view of the C18- MI5 relationship as though it was the only one. Importing into academic discourse the propaganda output of Searchlight magazine gravely hampers what at first sight seems the […]
[…] Information-wise, it is almost useless, though there were one or two nice pictures. It was mostly bits and bobs of spy- or intelligenceish news, recycled from newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] engage both Protestant and Republican forces. With 90% of the RUC Protestant, the Army saw that it couldn’t be relied on for intelligence on its own community. MI5 officers were called in to sort out intelligence gathering. At this time Army Intelligence were “strictly forbidden to give information to the RUC.” (6) Even though […]
[…] Director of the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research, PO Box 1052, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1052, USA. The Red Menace I thought my piece about the CPGB and MI5 (in Lobster 25) was something of a bombshell. In the event it turned out to be a damp squib. However, Laurens Otter wrote to me: ‘Your […]
