[…] Geraghty. He argues quite strongly that the war in Northern Ireland is not really over, that the IRA is repositioning itself for another round, and that the security forces must be ready for this. I suspect that this interpretation of developments comes from the same sources as provided the details of electronic surveillance. It […]
[…] Germany, but about his knowledge of Haushofer? That Rudolf Hess might be in Britain was after all a sensational piece of news of considerable interest to the security and intelligence services if true. So why should Sinclair not have told someone with Medhurst’s rank and clearance that Hamilton had identified the man as Hess […]
[…] had become the new Conservative leader, Goldsmith met Wilson. Latching on to Wilson’s concerns that his office and home were being bugged, Goldsmith volunteered his own private security company to sweep both premises, apparently finding and removing a number of listening devices.(4) Wilson awarded Goldsmith a knighthood in his 1976 resignation honours list, ostensibly […]
[…] Smith (1992-4) and Special Adviser to Jack Cunningham. In 1997 she became Chair of the Atlantic Council and she has since been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee.(4) The SIS-John Smith connection extends a little further. John Smith’s widow, Lady Smith, was appointed to the SIS-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation. Baroness Smith has […]
[…] the possible threats after 9/11’. Or take Stephen Holmes, a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and research director at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law, who wrote: ‘….we can safely say that the following jumble of motives, seizing different actors at different times, contributed […]
[…] regular sessions with him in White’s Club. Richards, a former co-ordinator of intelligence in the Cabinet Office, replaced Maurice Oldfield in May 1980 as overall co-ordinator of security in Ulster, and is now head of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Good connections for Wallace, still in prison. In September it was revealed that the Home […]
[…] They were the first company to envisage the possibility of business computers as early as the late forties. Computers at this stage were still matters of national security and much of the early research work was done by the Rand Corporation, the world’s first think tank, and originally a Cold-War front for USAF intelligence. […]
[…] an essay by Richard Aldrich of Salford University, one of the small but growing numbers of British academics trying to incorporate the activities of the intelligence and security services into post-war British history. In his essay on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) after the end of the Second World War, Aldrich writes that ‘the […]
It is a difficult time for Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Not only have the old certainties collapsed with the Berlin Wall, Britain’s economy is in increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 […]
[…] and/or real estate, which is one reason why the dollar is being kept artificially low. In America’s case, this went wrong because of the introduction of extra security measures which meant hours of queuing/discourtesy at US airports, a good example of a well-known PR pitfall: the inability to align the strategies and policies of […]
