[PDF file]: […] who originated untrue stories spread about Thomas Niedermayer. On p. 184 the following appears: ‘Following the abduction, journalists were given off the record briefings from Wallace and MI5 officers that suggested several alternative reasons for what had happened. In two of these scenarios, loyalists were blamed for the kidnapping. According to Robert Fisk, journalists […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] this to Kincora, even though he had read Wallace’s documents, some of which were about it.3 Hitherto the agency linked with Kincora in media stories has been MI5. It is MI5 – who had replaced SIS as lead intelligence agency in Northern Ireland – who refused to take action when informed about McGrath’s activities […]
[PDF file]: […] CIA in London sent a memo to the CIA HQ in Langley. It said: ‘The Cambridge reporter had never received a call of this kind before, and MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record.’28 Interesting phraseology, ‘a sound and loyal person’. Could the […]
[…] CIA in London sent a memo to the CIA HQ in Langley. It said: ‘The Cambridge reporter had never received a call of this kind before, and MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record.’28 Interesting phraseology, ‘a sound and loyal person’. Could the […]
[PDF file]: […] ken noo Slight stirrings in Parliament about the Snowdon revelations of the NSA/ GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus […]
[PDF file]: […] example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, ‘tapped or bugged’. Indeed, during the 1966 Seamen’s Strike Wilson had received MI5 briefings on the […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 At or . 15 See or . 16 17 Listed at . 18 6 Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of BBC staff.19 I have no idea, I replied. The story on the BBC News website is worth reading – if only for the strong […]
[…] reader asked me if I knew why the BBC had allowed a former employee, Paul Reynolds, to see some of the files generated by the once secret MI5 vetting of Lynn Parramore, ‘Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More’ at or 14 At or . 15 See […]
[PDF file]: […] is that the formation of the Civil Contingencies Cadre (CCC) at the centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we […]
