[…] Regent St, London W1R 5FA. I have it on reliable authority that in 1987 — when the Wallace and Holroyd story was at its first peak — MI5 approached IFF(UK) and suggested that they take legal action against Lobster using MI5 money. IFF refused. It should be said that IFF Director, Marc Gordon, denies […]
[…] it up. This is what they had published: ‘In Lobster 26 Robin Ramsay recalls the one section that was apparently cut from a BBC Panorama documentary on MI5 et al in 1981. This was Gordon Winter, BOSS agent, declaring: “British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger […]
[…] such quarters by reference to other views, even when readily available. For example he recounts (p. 67) the highly questionable Searchlight/World in Action view of the C18- MI5 relationship as though it was the only one. Importing into academic discourse the propaganda output of Searchlight magazine gravely hampers what at first sight seems the […]
[…] Information-wise, it is almost useless, though there were one or two nice pictures. It was mostly bits and bobs of spy- or intelligenceish news, recycled from newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, the exiled MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler, has added his tuppenyworth to the tabloid calls to ‘string ‘er up’, prompting the suspicion that he is more like Peter Wright (a […]
[…] 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 […]
