[…] Prime Minister and make peace with Germany. Hess, secretly supported by Hitler, endeavoured to make contact with the British peace party but his overtures were manipulated by MI5 who lured him to Britain in May 1941. Hess arrived proposing an understanding between Britain and Germany which would allow Hitler to commence Operation Barbarossa without […]
[…] in those sections you are getting ‘the real inside story’. Somewhere along the way, for example, I have acquired the idea that his second and third books, MI5: A Matter of Trust and MI6 were both something like in-house histories, given – edited no doubt – to Allason in the great spook rivalries of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] particularly thin if limited to British examples. Then there is official disinformation, another area in which Britain excels. As Home Secretary, Leon Brittan spent two weeks investigating MI5, concluding that ‘the Security Service has carried out no operation, investigation, surveillance or action against any individual otherwise than for the purposes laid down in its […]
[…] the clearing banks had been allowed to become more adventurous in their investment policy. The Bank of England added weight to the position. Cuckney was an ex- MI5 officer. (5) He had also worked at Farnham Castle, a government centre for intelligence briefing, from 1974-84. Before that, he was attached to the Crown Agency […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] dropped.() British spook heritage PR As part of their PR strategy, two of Britain s spook employers are producing certain bestsellers: public sector 100th anniversary accounts of MI5 and SIS.()Moving their civil servants away from the mythology, they are positioning them – possibly as part of spook turf wars – as mainstream parts of […]
[…] far as I can tell. Most of it is a rehash of the Wales’ miserable marital life with the Paris revelations left until the end. In brief: MI5 carried out the killing (with the French supplying the Mercedes). The car’s seatbelts were tampered with. Henri Paul was briefed by one of his intelligence handlers […]
[…] payments of £14,000 and £15,000 in 1978.’ In fact, as has been reported in these pages before, Falber’s role as the Soviets’ bagman was first revealed in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher in 1987. Falber’s role had been known by MI5 from the outset. MI5 for whatever reason chose to let the ‘Moscow gold’ continue.
[…] 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 […]
