[…] to fix Stalker. It was nothing subtle: leaning on hookers to claim Stalker fathered their child; leaning on gay men to etc etc. This conspiracy – with MI5 – followed Stalker around. Alas he was a clean cop. ‘Special Branch’, as Prince calls him, even claims LSD was put into a drink intended for […]
[…] ‘CIA spies listened to Diana’s love secrets’, The Mirror 12 November 1998. Martin Bashir, the television reporter who interviewed Diana for Panorama, has also said that ‘… MI5 was carrying out “dirty tricks” on .’ (Sally Bedell Smith, Diana: the life of a troubled Princess, London: Aurum Press, 1999, p.281) The Daily Telegraph Home […]
[…] three times annually by two British eccentrics with a limited distribution to “about 50 like-minded friends.” N.B. It is anti-intelligence, specifically against the Western intelligence services, particularly MI5, MI6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The subject matter is apparently varied, eclectic, and highly interesting and informative for intelligence professionals and buffs.’ While good […]
[…] gathered in March for his memorial service in St James’s, Piccadilly. In his address, the Rt Rev John Perry said Elwell’s 30-year service to his country in MI5 should properly remain a ‘closed book’. The nearest the congregation heard of the work of the senior secret policeman who smeared many on the left in […]
[…] Robert Armstrong, one of the real pillars of this country’s secret state, is apparently in favour of more ‘open government’. Times 2 July. Another memoire, by ex MI5 Joan Miller, suppressed by the government. Sunday Times 29 July As is an article by this country’s leading (only?) academic expert on Argentina/the Falklands et al, […]
[…] capacity as Chairman. He commenced with the inimitable opening lines that ‘Some of you may now regard me as a Zionist infiltrator, others as an employee of MI5. There are no doubt some of you who do regard me as a flim-flam Tory.’ He rejected the accusations (of course), but that he was having […]
[…] 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.
[…] Clearly we need something to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had […]
[…] 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 […]
