[…] British media link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and the other ‘a man who was high up in the Labour Party at the time…a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency MI5. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father to use his black-magic, soul-cracking brain-washing techniques on young boys.’ This must be the late Tom […]
