Mr Tony was a spook? Issue 7 of Larry O’Hara’s Note from the Borderland () includes a section from the Anne Machon and David Shayler book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited […]
NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the […]
[…] constant surveillance as part of their remit to ‘protect the Royal Family from scandal that might bring it and Britain into disrepute’.()According to former MI5 officer David Shayler, MI6 wanted to curtail Diana’s liaison with the Al Fayed family. ‘I think that MI6 paid to have Diana and Dodi involved in an accident using […]
[…] trying to overthrow Colonel Gaddafy’s regime. That name might ring a bell because this is the group, an al-Qaeda affiliate we are told, which, according to David Shayler, was paid by MI6 to try to assassinate Colonel Gaddafy. But this was back in the days when Gaddafy was ‘the mad dictator’, some time funder […]
[…] I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former MI5 officers David Shayler and Annie Machon. 21 In the best example yet of a staff-spook who has no idea how other societies work, she then gave an explanation of […]
[…] It came as no surprise that the plot to murder Libya’s President – a typical ‘special operations’ throwback, brought to public notice by former MI5 Officer David Shayler, for which he has paid a despicable price – happened on Spedding’s watch. The personal views of the Chief count for a great deal in an […]
[…] by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried to whistle blow on his secret service bosses.’ After reading this I thought: sure, he is innocent and I’m Santa Claus! But my interest […]
[…] effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, the exiled MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler, has added his tuppenyworth to the tabloid calls to ‘string ‘er up’, prompting the suspicion that he is more like Peter Wright (a bitter-and-twisted reactionary criticising […]
[…] answer….. The Guatemala documents are in the National Security Archive, on-line at www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/ This is quoted in Robert Parry’s Lost History, reviewed in this issue, p.27. David Shayler sat on MI5’s Libyan desk for a while and he saw material which persuaded him that the Libyans did Lockerbie. Which tells us that the disinformation […]
[…] website address is: http://www.sp.nl/spectre/ Notes from the Borderland Issue 2 of Larry O’Hara’s magazine appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance […]
