[…] for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds links to U.S. officials, it is difficult to know what to make […]
Ex-British intelligence officer Richard Winch said KGB defectors regularly named 7 ‘MPs, trade union leaders and 1 former Conservative Cabinet Minister’ as KGB agents. (Daily Telegraph 24 and 27 September 1984) What, only 7? According to Frederick Forsyth’s ‘sources’ in the British labour movement there are 20. (See Times 31 August 1984). And doesn’t […]
[…] At some point in 1924 Knight became a member of Britain’s first fascist movement of any significance, the British Fascists (BF) and served as its Director of Intelligence from 1924 to 1927. Evidence confirming Knight’s involvement is available from a number of sources. There is, for example, the testimony of Neil Francis-Hawkins, recently uncovered […]
[…] of the Chief Constable of Kent. Until recently much of the anxiety about the police use of computers was focused on the applications of computers to police intelligence gathering. This anxiety was reflected in the report of the Lindop Committee on Data Protection which drew a sharp distinction between criminal records (“factual and verifiable”) […]
[…] hailed from Poland yet claimed to have known Anastasia as a child. In his Polish identity, Goleniewski was, verifiably, perhaps the most important official from East Bloc intelligence ever to defect into the arms of the CIA. Goleniewski joined the Soviet intelligence apparatus in Poland at the end of WW2, and by 1955 had […]
[…] of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 A Life: A. J. Ayer Ben Rogers Chatto and Windus, London, 1999, £20 Many books on intelligence matters simply rehash old ‘facts’, adding a new twist to – a slightly different interpretation of – well-known, if not necessarily well-understood, events. If they contain […]
[…] companies and internet and civil liberties groups oppose. In the U.S. debate centres on the SAFE Bill (Security and Freedom through Encryption ), and attempts by U.S. intelligence to incorporate amendments that would ensure access to encrypted data by means of some form of ‘key escrow’ system whereby electronic keys are deposited with a […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred […]
[…] to its involvement in what is in effect state terror? I intend to examine what vehicles for democratic accountability exist to rein in the activities of the intelligence agencies and secret police. It is a sorry story. The minute the flag of ‘national security’ is raised we are supposed to no longer think rationally […]
[…] out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value of their work.’ Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. ‘I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East […]
