[…] 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 […]
[…] in the “hayshed shoot-out” in November 1982. Doherty is critical of early reports of the existence of a tape-recording of the incident made by E4A using an MI5 bug, and dismisses it as a red herring. This seems unlikely considering the amount of information about the tape, and Stalker’s struggle to obtain it which […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Kelly had sometimes been ‘an undercover man for the intelligence services’.(20) Unsurprising, perhaps, that veteran journalist Tom Mangold should claim Kelly’s death was investigated by ‘Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present.’(21) Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion […]
[…] have come within the CIA’s sphere of influence. (It is worth remembering that in 1965, in its imperial pomp, the CIA came to London and proposed incorporating MI5 into the Agency’s London station….) The second is Helen Laville’s study of the CIA’s funding of one of the US women’s group, the Committee of Correspondence, […]
[…] scrap one computer made unusable by one — and, by a strange coincidence, they started arriving just after he signed a contract to write a book about MI5. Add this to Malcolm Kennedy’s problems described in previous issues and again in Jane Affleck’s pieces here, and the attempt to smear Robert Henderson, described in […]
[…] I. F. Stone in New York Review of Books 1st April 1976. As happened at this time in the UK with Stephen Ward, who, despite working for MI5, got abandoned by them when it came to the crunch. (See Steve Dorril’s essay on Novotny in this issue.) Beautifully demonstrated by the wonderful Peter Dale […]
[…] Information Act via s23…..It provides an absolute exemption for information that was supplied directly or indirectly, or relates to the following security bodies: the Security Service ( MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), GCHQ, Special Forces …the National Criminal Intelligence Service…a certificate from a minister is all that is needed for the exemption to […]
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/ or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so […]
[…] forces won and the consensus formed that Angleton was a nutter who did terrible damage to the CIA and, by extension, to allied intelligence agencies such as MI5 and MI6.(6) This anti-Angleton consensus is challenged by his former ally Begley, who reanalyses the Nosenko affair and tries to show the reader that their – […]
