[PDF file]: […] the security services accountable as totally lacking in substance, Ministers and the Government have total unaccountable power in this area. This has meant that the security services MI5, MI6 and GCHQ have effectively been exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts which were brought in the 1980s and […]
[PDF file]: […] a strange organisation called Tara.2 The Kincora abuse has been an acutely embarrassing issue for the British state because elements of its secret arms in Northern Ireland, MI5 and the RUC Special Branch, were aware of the abuse of the inmates but chose to ignore it because of MI5’s interest in McGrath. Among the […]
[PDF file]: […] Media in Britain, the strongest criticisms are aimed at politicians and the bureaucratic mismanagement at the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Journalistic responsibility gets off lightly. Strikingly, neither MI5, MI6 nor GCHQ are portrayed as bad in toto. Sometimes the leaders of the intelligence services get too close to politicians, sometimes politicians are simply not […]
[PDF file]: […] almost perfect example of obfuscation, check out MI5’s favourite historian, Christopher Andrew, and a podcast produced by the National Archives detailing the releases in September 2019 of MI5 files related to (amongst other things) the Portland Spy Ring.21 The first point that stands out is how we are told that the Soviet deepcover controller […]
[PDF file]: (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril How do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned […]
[PDF file]: […] Demonstration Squad – which infiltrated every political/social group worth mentioning on the left in London – was not being run by the Special Branch but, rather, by MI5. This is not really surprising, though: who else would have the resources to run such a gigantic operation? If you are not following this story, there […]
[…] kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned […]
[PDF file]: […] An Uneasy Relationship? Daniel W B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b, £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government might attack the bastions of ruling class power […]
[…] The 2020 On The Trail of Delusion: Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser. See . 38 39 See . 12 run by the Special Branch but, rather, by MI5. This is not really surprising, though: who else would have the resources to run such a gigantic operation? If you are not following this story, there […]
[PDF file]: […] years insisted that the CPGB was involved in the work of the NKVD. More recently in 2005, from the right, Nigel West, in his neglected account of MI5 penetration of the CPGB, MASK, wrote of how the NKVD agent Arnold Deutsch recruited Klugmann, ‘codenamed MER…. as a talent-spotter, recommending other suitable candidates from his […]
