[…] in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee or Labour’s Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another useful feature of the volume is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal […]
[…] SE7 1PX. (It is probably worth adding that, as with Soviet bloc embassies, all communications to the Iranian embassy are likely to be intercepted and read by MI5.) Imam is an obnoxious anti-Semitic rag, on the whole. In the February 1984 issue they even recycle the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with this […]
[…] other inquiries the security service was not involved in Miss Murrell’s murder and had no knowledge of her before her death.’ I have seen no evidence that MI5 were involved in the Murrell’s death but just to be told, ‘Well, we asked and they denied it’ won’t do. (Though what would do, I admit, […]
[…] appeasement and of Anglo-German peace. (De Courcy) Extra-Parliamentary Ball, Sir George Joseph B. 1880.War Office 1911; HQ Irish Command 1914; British Expeditionary Force 1915-21; War Office, 1922. MI5; reorganised Conservative Research Department; signed the cheque which paid the forger of the Zinoviev letter; confidant of Chamberlain throughout his Prime Ministership; editor of Truth, a […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] 36, has had weeks off-line caused by a succession of computer viruses. The viruses started arriving shortly after he signed a contract to write a volume on MI5 for the Pocket Essentials series. I wrote about Robert Henderson and his experience of having Special Branch and a tabloid sicced onto him by the Blairs […]
[…] Scott and Iain Macleay’s Britain’s Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo American State (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1990. With only the slightest acquaintance with the ‘Anglo-American state’ (calling MI5 ‘DI5’, for example, and confusing its role with that of ‘DI6’), the authors blunder about in what is potentially a very interesting and under-reported area. Its […]
[…] duty that night in Hammersmith police station were involved with Quinn’s death; or, at least, knew what happened and covered up. Kennedy speculates that Special Branch and/or MI5 may be involved, and suspects that an interception warrant, established during his case, is being constantly renewed. He believes the intention is to damage his business […]
[…] 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 […]
