[…] the planes involved in the attacks were ‘missiles wrapped in holograms’. At this point the author puts forward a theory of his own. Could Shayler be an MI5 plant ‘designed eventually to discredit the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement with increasingly extravagant absurdities?’(30)Or could he in fact be a higher being?(31) DANGO DANGO, the database […]
[…] she expressed ‘misgivings’ about Harold Wilson’s ‘reliability’ although her evidence was wholly anecdotal, based on such matters as Wilson’s visits to Russia thirty years earlier, and his employment of figures such as Geoffrey Goodman (on whom MI5 had a file) whose political reliability she evidently questioned.’ Three meetings to express her ‘misgivings’? Don’t think so….
[…] can be measured by the infrequency with which his name appears in print. Ross tells us that he is unsure whether or not Ball actually resigned from MI5 before going to work for the Tories, and announces that “John Ramsden, who researched this period …. considered it probable that Ball continued to work for […]
[…] in the 1980s. And might have been such; but where is the evidence? Sir John Jones (obit Glasgow Herald 24 March 1998, Daily Telegraph 11 March 1998). MI5 officer, Director-General 1981-5. General Sir Frank King (obit Guardian 14 April 1998). GOC Northern Ireland 1973-75. The Guardian obit is by Chris Ryder, in the 1970s […]
[…] decade after the 1991 Congress voted to dissolve the CPGB after seventy-one years of political life and to reconstitute itself as the Democratic Left, more than one MI5 officer could be heard to claim (a) that the British Security Service “had been virtually running the CPGB at the end….”, Assuming this claim about MI5 […]
[…] Ulster Political Research Group by John MacMichael, then head of the UFF, who used it in his power struggle against Andy Tyrie. That MacMichael might have had MI5 links was revealed when he himself recycled the UCA smear, this time against Colin Wallace, to Independent journalist David McKittrick, formerly of BBC Northern Ireland. (With […]
[…] of being evidence. The authors devote just one page to the security services, quote a couple of books, and get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not […]
[…] CIA reports and briefings); Declassified records (CIA, DIA, State dept, Nat Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs ( MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of the IC, drug smuggling and the CIA). US Military Intelligence Sites http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html […]
[…] as Colonel Oleg Gordiefsky – may carry additional and different burdens, as can those employed in private sector espionage. Note: one of the justifications Dame Stella Rimington gave for writing her autobiography when she stood down from MI5 was because ‘she wished to explain things’ to her daughters. See The Guardian (Weekend) 8 September 2007.
[…] of the private security sector could lead to other unravellings, such as a journey through Lloyds of London, private banking, the Department of Social Security, the police, MI5 and so forth. (5) Therefore, no regulation. This leaves the industry scratching around trying to find other means of proving its respectability. This matters because its […]
