[…] of preparing this issue for the printer I was contacted by someone who claimed that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy led, apparently by MI5 which involved, inter alia, TV newsreaders watching and commenting on his life while he watched the news. He had gone to extraordinary lengths, and spent […]
[…] Prosecutions attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3)and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as ‘a huge overreaction’.(4) The minds of bankers Some years ago I was told the following story by someone who was […]
MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 hb Harold Smith As I can testify from personal experience, having in 1960 been summoned to Government House in Lagos, Nigeria, to have my death sentence pronounced by the Governor General, MI6 is brutal, cruel, merciless and totally unforgiving. Dorril’s courage, […]
[…] not just due to bizarre fantasies, and guesswork and/or wish-fulfilment masquerading as fact, there is also what appears to be the passing of disinformation on behalf of MI5 and possibly others. Where possible, I have not relied on Searchlight’s analysis. That said, it always makes for amusing (and often informative) reading. Spearhead 72, January […]
[…] the world, book reviews etc. No 2 has Freney Part 2; a longish piece on the ‘Bulgarian connection’; a reprint of one of the Guardian series on MI5; plus parapolitical material from Brazil and Venezuela, clippings etc. It is not unlike The Lobster – in intention, anyway, if somewhat more ambitious in scope. Intelligence […]
[…] (9) the most interesting one concerning Camilla Parker-Bowles’ car crash two months before Diana’s death. This, according to King and Beveridge, was a failed assassination attempt by MI5 intended to ‘clean up the constitutional mess’ caused by the marital and extramarital predicament in which the Prince of Wales found himself’, whilst at the same […]
[…] Tony Stephens, that Colin and I were telling the truth, and that contingency plans were made to prevent our allegations being made public. At that meeting, the MI5 legal officer, Mr Bernard ‘X’ Shelton, was advised to approach the Chief Constable of Royal Ulster Constabulary in order to stop the current investigations into my […]
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. […]
[…] are prepared to go to try and maintain the single assassin theory. (4) Over at the Sunday Times — basic orientation for the past few years Army/ MI5 — on 26 January, James Adams, the Times‘ chief spook-contact for those years, now the paper’s U.S. correspondent, was trotted out. Kennedy buffs are no longer […]
[…] they were too timid and had not been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number of ‘significant […]
