[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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[PDF file]: […] virtuous reminder of the then Soviet Union’s wickedness, President Putin’s Russia can promote Tolstoy’s genius in the same way as the UK loses no 2 See ‘The SIS and London-based Foreign Dissidents’ in Lobster 65. 3 Over the next eighteen months, those wishing to monitor the UK’s view of President Putin, which may/may not […]
[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. […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] there had been over many years about wrongdoing at Kincora. The HIA Inquiry’s assertion that it was not until 1980 that the RUC Special Branch, MI5, the SIS and Army Intelligence became aware that McGrath had been sexually abusing residents at Kincora was further undermined by a report in The Sunday Correspondent newspaper on […]
[PDF file]: […] have felt the need to spy on others, and on their own people, they have tried to keep the very fact of their doing so secret – SIS, MI5 and GCHQ didn’t officially exist until 1989. By contrast, the CIA was set up by Congress, and has always been – formally at least – […]
[PDF file]: […] COVID was all part of some much wider plan – the Great Reset coming out of the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations Agenda 2030.1 (empha sis added) The United Nations Agenda 20302 is a list of decent, liberal aspirations – ranging from the clearly defined ‘no poverty’ and ‘zero hunger’ to the […]
[PDF file]: […] engaged in more conventional activism! Even Auden’s visit to Republican Spain seems to have gone unnoticed by MI5, although as Smith notes there might well be an SIS file. Interest in Auden did, however, explode into life in June 1951 at the time of the Guy Burgess defection. One of the last things Burgess […]
[PDF file]: […] shutdown. To this non-existent ‘coup’ plan of 1974 Cottrell has added the Cecil King-Lord Mountbatten meeting of 1968. (pp. 236/7) He has Sir Maurice Oldfield, a career-long SIS officer, as ‘MI5’s director of counter-intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he […]
