[…] on Public Records in 24 th Annual Report of Public Records Office. (Guardian 1 July 1983.) Thatcher personally stops publication of two books: official histories of war-time MI5 and war-time counter intelligence operations. (Guardian 25 November and 8 December 1983) Anthony Lester QC lecture states UK increasingly isolated from Europe and Commonwealth by refusal […]
[…] was a ‘Western intelligence official’. On 28 May 2000 the Sunday Times article ‘IRA investors make 300% profit out of Gaddafi cash donations’, sourced back to ‘ MI5 documents seen by The Sunday Times‘, concluded by telling us that Swiss police were ‘investigating the supply to Libya from Taiwan of plans and parts for […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Blackpool Football Club but was largely unaware that he had been marked down as a dangerous enemy of the centralised British political system. According to the former MI5 officer David Shayler, the intelligence services file on Owen Oyston was re-examined in 1992 by the head of MI5, when it looked as if Neil Kinnock’s […]
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[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the first Director of the Economic League, attributes the formation of OMS to one Sir George McGill, a personal friend of Vernon Kell, the first head of MI5. Prior to the OMS episode McGill “created and directed a highly efficient private intelligence service, investigating not only all forms of subversion, including communism, but also […]
