[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] 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.
[…] 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 […]
