[…] Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in Whitehall for an LFI event in April that caused the re-routing of a march to the Cenotaph of retired British service personnel seeking equity […]
[…] that, although some of these rumours may have involved no more than ‘loose talk by gin-sodden generals’, they were taken seriously enough to be ‘investigated by the security services’.(47) IV Britain’s social democratic moment The King affair can be viewed on three levels. First of all, it was evidence of the poor relations between […]
[…] (7) – which was why he had set up the Simonstown Agreement. Arms exports were good for the balance of payments and domestic employment; and guaranteed the security of the sea lanes around the Cape. The Wilson governments of 1964-70 had inherited the agreement from the Conservatives but had never been happy about it […]
[…] On the one hand he attributes the view of the NUM as a subversive threat to ‘the Thatcherite faction in the Cabinet and their supporters in the security services …. the NUM under Scargill’s stewardship was the most serious domestic threat to state security in modern times’. (pp. 4/5) On the other hand he […]
[…] trafficking in Kosovo and …the confluence between terrorism and organized crime, and the increasingly fluid, almost transient nature of their organizational structures’. Thomas Gambill, a former OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) security officer in Kosovo, from whom we may hear a great deal, is beginning to blow the whistle in this essay.
[…] more information about the world’s intelligence services – though, admittedly relatively little about the UK – than one person could synthesise working full-time. The issue with the security and intelligence services isn’t that we don’t know their names, it’s that we don’t know what they are doing. And neither do our politicians. While much […]
[…] The Sunday Telegraph on 10 March 2002. After a sniper killed ten Israeli civilians and soldiers on the West Bank in one session, the Telegraph reported ‘British security officials are looking into suspicions that a crack sniper….might be an IRA gunman.’ (‘Ragheads’ can’t shoot straight but ‘Paddy’ apparently now can.) The truth isn’t out […]
[…] guess he really cares about, is that SIS got it right. There it is, out front, in the final paragraph of his introduction. “Both SIS and the Security Service..have officers with as keen a sense of realities as the most sceptical student of Britain’s recent history…One such officer, in Lagos during the Nigerian Civil […]
[…] telephone call, I was sent a photocopy of the review of Smear! by Robert Cecil from the Winter ’92 issue of the Journal of Intelligence and National Security. To quote the biographical material on his book about Guy Burgess, A Divided Life (Bodley Head, London, 1988), Mr Cecil is a former Head of the […]
[…] Pitzer, with a foreword by Major General John K. Singlaub (Rtd). Singlaub (an old buddy of mercenary and arms dealer Mitch Werbell) is active in the American Security Council, and on the board of Western Goals, brainchild of right-wingers Larry McDonald (a leading John Bircher who died in KAL 007), and John Rees, editor […]
