[…] 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 […]
[…] of being evidence. The authors devote just one page to the security services, quote a couple of books, and get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not […]
[…] Rights, the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence, has been, and continues to be, violated. The agencies alleged to be involved were MI5, GCHQ and the Metropolitan Police. In January 2005 the Tribunal issued its final decision: it did not uphold Kennedy’s complaint or HRA claim, and under s67(8) […]
[…] Branch SB attending Friends of the Earth and NCCL meetings in Manchester. (Guardian 29 November) MI6 Interesting piece on Tony Jones, London solicitor accused of being MI6/ MI5 informant, including the information that Michael Bettaney was the source of the information, in Black Flag 27 November. Political intelligence service of Hamburg police prepare weekly […]
[…] Clearly we need something to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]
[…] British media link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article 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 […]
[…] Chinese people and their Communist Party.’ (7) As the Czechs were the most trusted servants of the KGB/GRU in this country, it would seem highly likely that MI5 took an interest in the NCP. Curious, then, that the NCP’s funding from the Czechs did not become the centre of a new ‘Red Scare’ during […]
[…] Prosecutions attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3)and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as ‘a huge overreaction’.(4) The minds of bankers Some years ago I was told the following story by someone who was […]
[…] of information gained (on home ground) from its sources within FARL. (In British terms this would be as if MI6 had recruited Nesar Hindawi’s lawyer without informing MI5 or Special Branch.) While the DST was seeking the bombers who had killed 13 and wounded 250 in attacks designed to pressure the French government into […]
