[PDF file]: […] is a testimony to the resistance of the CIA’s intelligence analysts. In the UK the estimates from the two main agencies, the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and MI6 (or SIS) are fed into the Joint Intelligence Committee which produces the final version. That, at least, is the theory. In practice, in this instance, the […]
[PDF file]: […] announced: ‘This is the personal account of the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1976 as seen through the eyes of the British Chargé d’Affaires and MI6 Head of Station in Beirut, Geoffrey Hancock.’ Oh, thought I, how many other memoirs by an MI6 Head of Station do we have? None that I […]
[PDF file]: […] T op down language is always a give-away and can be a pleasing indication of progress. So, for example, in Professor 123 Winter 2010 Jeffery’s reference work, MI6, the history of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909 – 1949, there is an example of the huge lobbying pressure that the educator – a crucial spook […]
[PDF file]: […] said he was going to Europe to meet with a CIA team led by Dr. Gottlieb…Sargant was satisfied that the CIA team were doing similar work that MI6 were conducting in Europe – executing without trial known Nazis, especially SS men…Sargant saw Frank Olson after his brief visit to Norway and West Germany, including […]
[PDF file]: […] his experiences or 31 32 Thomas E. Mahl, ss (Dulles, Virginia: Brassey’s, 1999) 33 34 Armen Victorian’s account of this is at . 12 United States by MI6 during WW2. Under the light cover of British Security Coordination, with the permission of President Roosevelt, MI6 attacked the isolationist opposition to American’s entry into the […]
[PDF file]: […] Archer’s by-election win, left the job undone, so we tried again, many years later; and this further chance was lost.’ 2 (emphasis added) Cavendish had been an MI6 officer. He worked with George K. Young in the UNISON Committee for Action, a militia formed as one of the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Churchill government. Prior to departing on his mission for Finland, Borenius was briefed by Claude Dansey and sent with the knowledge of the head of MI6, Colonel See or and also or the conclusion of which appears to be at odds with the facts. 28 Quoted in Matthew & Harrison (eds.), The […]
[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
[PDF file]: […] or relating to, bodies dealing with security matters’) but, instead, Provision 27 (which covers ‘International Relations’). The argument from the FCO – and, by direct association, from MI6 – is that the release of the additional names would harm current or future relations with other nations and that: ‘The FCO has argued that the […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
