[…] by the nickname ‘Lock-up’ – and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5’s top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) …. Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who […]
[…] 51 he writes of a ‘part-time consultancy for IRD’; and on p. 86 that IRD ‘put an office at disposal.’ He also boasts of ‘dealings with the secret services of many other countries including France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Morocco, Iran, Argentina, Chile and Taiwan.’ As early as p. 20 it is […]
[…] price stated This is worth skimming through, especially for the early 1950s period when Beeston was very close to SIS operations in the Middle East. These early chapters convey very clearly how the patriotic British journalist of the period rubbed shoulders with his country’s ‘ secret agents’ and never found them worthy of professional interest.
[…] S-3A Viking, flown by the CIA and carrying both chemical and biological weapons crashes in Iraq. A daring recovery operation is then carried out by an ultra- secret special operations team. The premise that a Viking could be sanitised so it could not be traced to the US is ridiculous. An aircraft like the […]
[…] free-floating entity independent of Moscow Gold or control. The KGB line is close to being abandoned. The 1970s in Northern Ireland were really the last time our secret state seriously tried to market the Moscow connection, without notable success. The Moscow line conspicuously failed in this country in 1983/4 when it was half-heartedly run […]
Henry Brandon died (Obituary, Independent, 23 April, 1993). Brandon was one of the post-war school of journalists who were happy to act as mouthpieces for the secret services and foreign policy establishments of the NATO bloc. Had he been on the Soviet side of the Cold War, he would have been long dismissed as […]
[…] just how little we – i.e. Steve Dorril and I, who began working with Fred and Colin, and the world at large – knew about the British secret state and its activities in Northern Ireland in 1985. This was one of the problems faced by Fred and Colin: presented with their stories most journalists […]
[…] KEVIN McNAMARA: To ask Mr. Attorney General, if he will prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, former senior information officer, Psychops, Army Headquarters, Norther Ireland for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 in the magazine Lobster in April. Member’s Constituency: Kingston Upon Hull North (Lab) Answer: […]
Apartheid’s friends: The rise and fall of South Africa’s secret service James Sanders London: John Murray, 2006, £11.99, p/b This is a tremendously impressive piece of work; and it’s big: 395 pages of text, another 100 pages of notes and sources and a decent index. I imagine that most of it will be […]
[…] this demonstration of New Labour’s commitment to freedom of information? Geraghty’s latest book, The Irish War. At first sight, Geraghty is a most unlikely target for the secret state. He is the author of the best-selling Who Dares Wins, a popular history of the SAS that played a major part in creating that regiment’s […]
