[…] history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on the fringes of state intelligence and security systems. Except in details, I have not attempted to update the essay, whose general thesis has been unfortunately only too corroborated by ensuing events. The assassins […]
[…] telephone call, I was sent a photocopy of the review of Smear! by Robert Cecil from the Winter ’92 issue of the Journal of Intelligence and National Security. To quote the biographical material on his book about Guy Burgess, A Divided Life (Bodley Head, London, 1988), Mr Cecil is a former Head of the […]
[…] no longer synonymous with British public service implied by the word attendant. At Gatwick airport railway station a billboard cautions ‘Unattended baggage may be destroyed by the security services’, the police airbrushed.( )This is advertising at its most vulgar, mention of the Security Services unBritish and gratuitous, no more than the self-aggrandisement of one […]
[…] free market on the one hand and a strong State on the other.’ p. 53 ‘Thatcherism’s emphasis on strong defence and the promotion of national economic and security interests has led, if anything, to an intensification of the cosy relationship between the MOD and the defence industry.’ pp. 53-4 Take it, it’s public money […]
[…] the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely untrue. The ‘friend’ of Shayler who […]
[…] prisoners had met sudden deaths (and a fourth was found injured but survived). All four had been held in separate cells, totally isolated, under Conditions of maximum security. Davies includes a speculative chapter on these developments. The official version is that Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe had had fire arms smuggled into Stanheim and […]
[…] mid 1980s I was one of the few people in the Labour Party who were trying to educate themselves about the role played by the intelligence and security services in our democracy. In 1985/86 I was corresponding with my equivalents in New Zealand and getting material from them on the attempts being made by […]
[…] and I think they should be.’ Rimington (smiling nervously) ‘I’ll pass on the message! Since that encounter Norman Baker MP’s case before the Data Protection Tribunal’s national security appeals panel resulted in a ruling that MI5’s blanket ban on disclosing the contents of personal files is wrong in principle. Whether in practice this results […]
[…] welcoming words for Coughlin? ‘Con is a journalist par excellence for our times. His skills and expertise are right at the heart of the foreign, defence and security issues that confront us daily.’ Evening Standard business editor Chris Blackhurst also seems to be a bit slow catching on. He started a recent glowing piece […]
[…] in strikes opposition to Bolshevism and aliens Middle Class Union 1919 14 (4) foreign manufacturing, engineering propaganda, lobbying representation of middle class interests, opposition to Bolshevism National Security Union 1919 12 (3) colonial oil, mining and navigation; the National Review propaganda, policing ‘to combat Bolshevism’ Liberty League 1920 9 (2) colonial land, tea, rubber […]
