[…] Cabinet Office in October 2002, if you look up SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret […]
[…] Green Party (two evaluating the recent census boycott campaign), a detailed expose of a regional branch of the Verfassungsschutz (Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s MI5). Using his former position as Green representative in the Baden-Wurtemberg regional parliament to prepare an in-depth account of the Verfassungsschutz, Thilo Weichert gives names, addresses, telephone […]
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. […]
[…] appeasement and of Anglo-German peace. (De Courcy) Extra-Parliamentary Ball, Sir George Joseph B. 1880.War Office 1911; HQ Irish Command 1914; British Expeditionary Force 1915-21; War Office, 1922. MI5; reorganised Conservative Research Department; signed the cheque which paid the forger of the Zinoviev letter; confidant of Chamberlain throughout his Prime Ministership; editor of Truth, a […]
[…] group ‘led by Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell, head of homeland security David Omand, Downing Street foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, and representatives of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ’.(7) The process of compiling the first dossier: ‘……resulted in fairly serious rows between Campbell, Omand and Stephen Lander, then head of M15. The […]
[…] in the political arena. Internal party groupings like the Conservative Party’s 1922 Committee or Labour’s Tribune Group are also described and there is even an entry for MI5 (but not for Special Branch or MI6). Another useful feature of the volume is its listings of overseas groups or parties who have either a formal […]
[…] and the other ‘a man who was high up in the Labour Party at the time…a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency MI5. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father to use his black-magic, soul-cracking brain-washing techniques on young boys.’ This must be the late Tom […]
[PDF file]: […] in its present form to investigate issues relating to the Army or MI5.’3 It is important to note that Sir Anthony Hart was expressing his concerns about MI5 publicly and in the presence of the press. That was an unusual step for a former High Court Judge to take, but it is now suspected […]
[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
Contents Lobster 58 The Defence of the Realm The Authorised History of MI5 Christopher Andrew Page 134 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 London: Allen Lane, 2009, £30 Covering the same area as the Hennessy/Thomas book but with access to more recent MI5 documents, Andrew does at least refer to the dissenters named in the preceding […]
