[…] Lewis et al were a preamble to the real target of their letter, the presence of the Labour MP Allan Rogers on the new Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. They quote examples of his support for left-wing causes taken from the Conservative Party’s 1992 Who’s Left: An index of Labour MP’s and Left-wing causes […]
[…] the agency has become bound together with the drug-runners. In effect, some of the world’s major drug-dealers have become immune to serious prosecution by US authorities. National security (covering the CIA’s bureaucratic ass) overrides the DEA, FBI, Department of Justice etc. Inside this overall structure some CIA personnel have become corrupt, just as some […]
[…] Those who ask, under the Freedom of Information Act, for the results of that research are told that answering their questions ‘might prejudice the interests of national security’. You might very well think that, in the interests of ‘national security’ that is the people’s security the people should be told what has […]
[…] in the world, does not accord with the evidence. Britain is one of a handful of world powers, one of the five permanent members on the UN Security Council, one of the world’s largest exporters of arms and military training, is a major financial centre, home to many of the world’s most significant transnational […]
[…] it. It is planned and controlled at the highest political authority.”(8) At the Lisburn headquarters there was close liaison between the Psyops Units, Army Intelligence and the Security Services. One of their chief sources of information came from homosexuals who were used to gather intelligence on extreme Protestant groups.(9) The Army didn’t trust the […]
[…] word ‘modern’ without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler’s complaints about MI5 can be seen in his submission to the Cabinet Office Review of the security and intelligence services, printed here as appendix 2: they are almost entirely bureaucratic and technical.) In a recent column of his in Punch – issue 93 […]
[…] Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “ security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence […]
[…] Mrs T’s mentor, wasn’t briefing her on this? Hugo Young, in the Guardian, April 30, 1987 observed that ‘Airey Neave…. was, among other things, her tutor in security matters, in which she immediately took the keenest interest, attending frequent briefings through the very active Tory network in both MI5 and MI6.’ Not mentioned by […]
[…] not conform to the elaborate and often bizarre scenarios concocted by conspiracy theorists. How, indeed, could it be otherwise in a world full of intelligence agencies, national security bureaucracies, clandestine revolutionary organizations, economic pressure groups, secret societies with hidden political agendas, and the like? No monolithic conspiracy There has never been, to be sure, […]
[…] I agreed with the anonymous columnist in the Leveller, but now I see exactly why they wanted this bit cut: the covert role of the intelligence and security services in British politics is the big secret. The spook in politics That covert role is one of the things fleetingly glimpsed in MI5’s pamphlet The […]
