[…] before. As a case study in the essential duplicity and cowardice of career-minded politicians sheltering behind ‘the interests of the state’, this would be hard to better. Pity it didn’t get a more thorough proof-reading. Little errors like ‘M5 and M6’ for MI5 and MI6 shouldn’t devalue the rest of the content but they do.
[…] 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 […]
[…] not just due to bizarre fantasies, and guesswork and/or wish-fulfilment masquerading as fact, there is also what appears to be the passing of disinformation on behalf of MI5 and possibly others. Where possible, I have not relied on Searchlight’s analysis. That said, it always makes for amusing (and often informative) reading. Spearhead 72, January […]
[…] of intimidation and killing of Sinn Fein/IRA politicians, gunmen, bombers, supporters and sympathisers by the UDA, aided and abetted by British Military Intelligence, was known about by MI5, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and a few senior government ministers and civil servants (p. 160). There is no ‘smoking gun’ in the form of a document […]
[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]: […] later Neville Chamberlain and other supporters of the appeasement policy secretly bought and ran the weekly newspaper Truth. This was largely an operation run by the former MI5 officer and éminence grise of the time, Sir Joseph Ball. He used the official government information machine to push the Chamberlain line, formed the National Publicity […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] Secretary excluding those topics from proper scrutiny by Parliament was that they were potentially highly embarrassing for the Government and also drew public attention to links between MI5 and Loyalist paramilitaries who were then engaged in widespread sectarian assassinations. Note: all of the information in this paper is now either declassified and/or in the […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state * Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote […]
[PDF file]: David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG Nick Must In his book Manufacturing Terrorism,1 T. J. Coles mentions that ex- MI5 officer David Shayler has recently claimed that Ramadan Abedi (the father of Manchester Arena suicide bomber, Salman Abedi) was the MI6 asset who had previous been identified solely with the cypher ‘Tunworth’. Shayler first […]
[…] the text there is footnote 195. This leads to a piece by Nafeez Ahmed,5 which, in turn, cites a report in Middle East Eye, headlined ‘”Sorted” by MI5: How UK government sent British-Libyans to fight Gaddafi’. Its first sentence is: ‘The British government operated an “open door” policy that allowed Libyan exiles and British-Libyan […]
