[…] trail, opened up by Ken Livingstone in the House of Commons (12/1/88) will run for years. The Cavendish book is an unprecedented public manifestation of the MI6- MI5 wars, and more is bound to follow. (And it’s quite an interesting book, though perhaps not for the reasons Cavendish intended.) Wallace and Holroyd seem to […]
[…] 9 August did not run the story but two other papers that day were dropping big hints. The Sunday Telegraph reported that ‘…a friend of the former MI5 agent told the Sunday Telegraph that there was “concrete evidence” that two senior ministers had worked for the security service…..the same source said that Mr Shayler’s […]
[…] before. As a case study in the essential duplicity and cowardice of career-minded politicians sheltering behind ‘the interests of the state’, this would be hard to better. Pity it didn’t get a more thorough proof-reading. Little errors like ‘M5 and M6’ for MI5 and MI6 shouldn’t devalue the rest of the content but they do.
[…] (The exclamation mark is theirs. They mean they support the use of violence.) The group claims to be independent of any other group but Special Branch and MI5 will see it as the mouthpiece of the SNLA and will be monitoring its post office box. In other words, if you subscribe you will end […]
[…] of intimidation and killing of Sinn Fein/IRA politicians, gunmen, bombers, supporters and sympathisers by the UDA, aided and abetted by British Military Intelligence, was known about by MI5, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and a few senior government ministers and civil servants (p. 160). There is no ‘smoking gun’ in the form of a document […]
[…] in 1996 by the Australian Attorney General’s department, and written by Gerard Walsh, a former Deputy Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO, equivalent to our MI5). The report was suppressed by the Australian government, which later released a censored version. An uncensored copy was obtained and posted on the net by Electronic […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] lease that Lord Rothschild had on a three- story maisonette in Bentinck Street in London expired: Blunt moved in with Tessa Mayor (then Lord Rothschild’s secretary in MI5, later his wife), Patrician Rawdon-Smith (who later married a friend of Blunt’s) and Guy Burgess. They were soon joined by Jack Hewitt, a sailor boyfriend of […]
[…] who followed the instructions. Reported in Counterpunch, Vol 5. No 21 (December 1-15, 1998) PO Box 18675, Washington DC 20036. Another cunning Commie plot Erstwhile Director-General of MI5, Stella Rimington, was the subject of a long profile in the Sunday Telegraph, 21 June 1998. Rimington said that when she became D-G she ‘tried to […]
[…] To Face M.P.’s Questions. (Peter Hennessy T. April 21 1983) The new Select Committees attempted to monitor the intelligence services and question the criteria for classification of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ documents. John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, said: “It is by no means clear that the intelligence services should come within […]
