[…] the national treasurer of the Institute for Workers Control and worked in CND headquarters, at a point when they were the source of much interest to the Security Service. (And, according to the recent research by Seamus Milne, he would have been used to penetrate the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984, had he […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Smith (1992-4) and Special Adviser to Jack Cunningham. In 1997 she became Chair of the Atlantic Council and she has since been appointed to the Intelligence and Security Committee.(4) The SIS-John Smith connection extends a little further. John Smith’s widow, Lady Smith, was appointed to the SIS-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation. Baroness Smith has […]
[…] conversations.(2) In this collusion the CIA had the support of a sister Mexican agency which it had helped to create, the Mexican Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Police), or DFS. The DFS, before it was abolished because of its deep involvement in Mexico’s drug traffic, was a key agency in the Mexica Gobernación […]
[…] the information, and should inform you where it is. Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; […]
An interesting piece by Mark Hollingsworth appeared in Punch of 23 May-5 June 2001, ‘Spooks in the House’, on intelligence and security personnel who become MPs. Some of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a […]
[…] ‘Although Georgia is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)……President Eduard Shevardnadse announced in February 1999 that his country would withdraw from the CIS’s Collective Security Treaty. Integration with the west is moving forward, and President Eduard Shevardnadse’s victory in the October 1999 parliamentary election was widely seen as a referendum on […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] most commentators didn’t believe him. I don’t know.) (3) ‘The best fake Maoists’ In October Radio Netherlands reported on the memoirs of a former member the Dutch security service (BVD), Frits Hoekstra. This includes the BVD’s creation of a fake Maoist party in the 1970s, which fooled everyone, including the Chinese government.(4) The BVD […]
[…] into the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash. In the course of these extensive investigations, Secretary of the Air Force, Sheila Widnall, commissioned Colonel Richard Weaver, Director of Security and Special Program Oversight, to resolve the matter. Weaver in turn delivered his verdict in line with official expectations, blocking access to much needed information – […]
