[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Nonetheless, this is very interesting and probably important. There are a lot of striking leads in here, none of which are good news for the police or MI5; so it’s not too surprising that he has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the […]
[PDF file]: […] he was happy with that and added: ‘When we hear of undercover Police having long-term relationships with animal rights activists (and even Harold Wilson being bugged by MI5 lest he was a Soviet mole) it is quite clear that the State reserves the right to monitor pressure groups or political parties. One could even […]
[PDF file]: […] John Hermon, it was decided that there should be a review of how intelligence was gathered and used in Northern Ireland. They placed this task with senior MI5 officer Patrick Walker. As far as the public and media were concerned, the most obvious feature of the recommendations made by Walker and Oldfield was the […]
[PDF file]: […] taste – many of whom are ‘domestic extremists’ by the criteria used by the Metropolitan Police in recent years. With this in mind is the new gay-friendly MI5 going to reconstitute F branch (the watchers of subversives), which it apparently disbanded to concentrate on jihadis? The innocents Because it is such a depressing tale […]
Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review […]
[PDF file]: […] the Militant Tendency; * and the rise to the leadership of this wider left of Tony Benn. The author’s analysis of the situation agrees with that of MI5 and its allies on the right at the time, with one essential difference: MI5 was aware that the ‘Moscow gold’ from the Soviet Union was mostly […]
[PDF file]: […] Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr Hanley (presumably Michael Hanley, some time Director-General of MI5) (Colonel) Maclean (probably ‘Billy’ […]
[…] Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr Hanley (presumably Michael Hanley, some time Director-General of MI5) (Colonel) Maclean (probably ‘Billy’ […]
