[…] by the nickname ‘Lock-up’ – and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5’s top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) …. Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who […]
[…] ravings a dollop duly arrived by e-mail. It was some kind of introduction to visitors to his Web site. It begins thus: ‘I reveal how a global secret society called the Illuminati (the ‘Illuminated Ones’ as they call themselves) have been holding the reins of power in the world since ancient times, expanding their […]
[…] deliberately misleading. As the authors surely know, Mrs Thatcher used the term ‘the enemy within’ to signal to the anti-subversion lobby in and attached to the British secret state, that she was fighting not ‘British citizens who wanted……to be allowed to go on earning their living’, but the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB); […]
[…] all about? Well, I and Sir Teddy Taylor (a British Member of Parliament) are trying to force the British government to investigate two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into […]
[…] in view of his association with ‘appeasers, Russophobes and Petainists’. He was also suspect because of his persistent efforts through the cultivation of British contacts to gather secret information which might find its way into enemy hands via friends in neutral diplomatic circles abroad. I met de Courcy on three occasions while researching my […]
[…] ensure new digital telecommunication systems do not hinder surveillance capabilities, and requiring the installation of monitoring capacity in these systems for national security/law enforcement purposes: ‘Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications policy across the world. In the shadows behind […]
[…] to have been in Paris on the night of the crash was Richard Dearlove, the then Director of Operations. In 1998 he became Assistant Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and the following February he succeeded Sir David Spedding as Chief. See Richard Norton-Taylor, ‘Spy chief comes out of shadows’, The Guardian 26 February […]
[…] effectively reduce the political influence of TNCs, European economies must be weaned from their dependence upon these corporations. Statewatch Statewatch has published a collection of 60 hitherto secret European Union documents and reports on policing, immigration, asylum, the Trevi group etc. Key Texts on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union, Vol 1, […]
[…] government be it noted the British Youth Council was said to be financed by the Foreign Office, though that may be a euphemism for MI6, the British secret intelligence service. In 1977 Mandelson and one Charles Clarke, another familiar name, then head of the British National Union of Students, put together a delegation from […]
Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close … Read more
