[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] The spy caught up in his own web of intrigue’, Sunday World, 31 May 1987, ‘Garda “Spy” Now A Hero’, Sunday World, May 3, 1987, and ‘The MI5 Plot to Smear Paisley’, Sunday World, May 17 1987.) Occasionally his name would appear in the Sunday Times on small bits. This all changed when he […]
[…] criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, the exiled MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler, has added his tuppenyworth to the tabloid calls to ‘string ‘er up’, prompting the suspicion that he is more like Peter Wright (a […]
[…] Selwood, is the only serving judge who is a member of the Armed Forces. In his evidence, the police officer in charge of the case admitted that MI5 were involved. The prosecution’s view of Green Anarchist was that it became dangerous with the issue in which agent provocateur Tim Hepple was first published. Hepple […]
[…] Two possible explanations come to mind. One, he had been much involved in the Ulster troubles as Northern Ireland Secretary. Then as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and […]
