[…] WW2 by Ian Fleming under cover of the Mercury newsagency, and named the late Henry Brandon of The Sunday Times, among others, the as ‘an asset of SIS’. (I seem to remember that while a correspondent in Washington in the 1970s he had his phone tapped by the Nixon White House.) Tomlinson 1 The […]
Espionage is two things – a career and a lifestyle. Both can be wildly exciting. Those who deny this have never been spies. Children born to SIS agents enjoy this lifestyle which can have many advantages. The home environment is usually stimulating, cosmopolitan and informed. There can also be one-off bonus such as acquisition […]
[…] these histories because openness and demands for change can impact on existing complex relationships, e.g. with India or Pakistan’s intelligence communities. () Targeting a wholly different area, SIS used a sophisticated version of multiple single messaging on 13 August, summarised in the press by the heading: ‘Wanted: spies (must speak Mandarin)’.() Putting aside the […]
[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR Corinne Souza An article in Lobster ten years ago claimed that SIS would not see its centenary (1909-2009). Lobster was right. SIS Chief Sir John Sawer’s speech on 28 October 2010 – a public first – was a closing statement, even […]
[…] fantasy in which Labour was going to nationalise all the financial institutions of the country. There was the Freeman-Jays affair, in which Rohan Jays, a supposed NZ SIS man (who we now know to have been MI6) passed a police report from SIS files to Auckland businessman Paul Freeman, who embarrassed Labour Prime Minister […]
On Friday 7 August I was told by a journalist at another paper that the Mail on Sunday had a story that Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson had worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. […]
[…] or three people, some of them were friends of the family….But you see, these informers, no matter how you feel about them, were recruited on the ba sis that they were doing a job for their country. As far as they were concerned they were patriots, not sneaks. And the condition of their employment […]
[…] for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of Langley, Virginia, and SIS. The revelation here in respect of the Philby affair is his discovery, years later, that Dennis Hamilton, the editor-in-chief of Times newspapers at the time of […]
[…] 1996, £16.99 There are two substantial essays in here, one about the SAS raid on the Argentine mainland which didn’t take place, and the other about the SIS operation to prevent the French delivering any more Exocets to the Argentine armed forces. Both episodes have been written about before, though not in this detail. […]
