[…] extremely sensitive matters for MI6/SIS and if they are even discussed in the media, there will be “hell to pay”, which is the main reason for the new top level censorship committee that was set up in London earlier this year.’ Much more on this at http://cryptome.org/markov-file.htm http://cryptome.org/markov-file2.htm MI5 miscellany Shayler backs Peter Wright […]
[…] favourable’. But there was also a history that ‘endowed the City with a talent pool and an infrastructure that enabled it to seize the moment’ and a New Labour government that ‘through a mixture of good luck and good judgement, enabled the City to make the most of these opportunities’. Augar sees Brown’s creation […]
[…] on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite saying of mine is: ‘If they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody’.…… The particular evil […]
[…] feel-good linkages (‘America defeated Communism’); but were denied the opportunity to form modern linkages (‘liberated’ Eastern Europeans v unliberated Iraqis/Palestinians). As a result, one of Europe’s ‘ new’ stories, the growth of anti-Americanism, and, more importantly, understanding of where it came from, was withheld. (A mirror image of the information vacuum US governments imposed […]
[…] in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New Zealand a series of domestic scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence yet — what […]
[…] This, presumably, was the same project with which his former deputy Werner von Braun, and around 200 of his former staff, had been busying themselves down in New Mexico from April 1946. The complete secrecy that shrouded the investigations into Tesla’s inventions also extended to Dornberger and von Braun as part of ‘Operation Paperclip’, […]
[…] is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White’s memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, he spoke to ‘dozens’ of […]
[…] name ‘surfaced’ in 1984, though they fail to inform the reader that this was actually when Holroyd first spoke to the media, via Duncan Campbell in the New Statesman. (22) Ambush says Nairac ‘boasted’ of killing Green, and predictably describes Ken Livingston’s claims about Nairac in his maiden speech to Parliament as ‘unsubstantiated’. But […]
[…] US experience suggests that polygraph tests wrongly clear 1 in 4 guilty suspects. (Guardian 19th October 1983) On polygraph’s failings: Douglas Carroll (Guardian 26th May 1983) and New Scientist (15th December 1983) Summary of the story so far: Richard Norton-Taylor (Guardian 16th November) and Hennessy (Times 16 November 1983) UK Government buys six polygraphs […]
[…] by incurring severe operational penalties. Britain’s ability to perform a meaningful role in NATO and in its wider commitments would be undermined. DEFE 5/188/12 suggested that the new climate called for new contingency planning. Above all the maintenance of public services affected by strikes should now embrace the use of ‘civilian volunteers’, particularly skilled […]
