[PDF file]: […] in the late 1940s as President of the Board of Trade. Ah, Golitsyn! And if he did claim this, who would take it seriously? Some members of MI5 certainly speculated that Wilson might have been recruited by the Soviets on his trips behind the Iron Curtain – and had done so before Golitsyn’s defection […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Soviet operations and identified dozens of Soviet agents and officers. After he was forced to defect, a grateful CIA debriefed him for months, lent him to MI5, set him up in a nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA […]
[PDF file]: […] on the extraordinary detail in Common Cause’s 1974 Bulletins on the Communist Party of Great Britain, suggesting that such detail could only have come from Special Branch/ MI5 sources. On reexamining some Common Cause Bulletins in the early 1970s we noticed this cryptic sentence which seems to first appear in Bulletin 127 (p. 124): […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 government.15 Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community […]
[PDF file]: […] was a guest on his show). There are several pages of an ultimately inconclusive account about alleged abuse and cover ups at Knowl View Children’s Home and MI5 get name checked on p. 195 as having kept Smith out of trouble (‘but no one is prepared to go on record about it’). Danczuk mentions […]
[PDF file]: […] Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin James Parris (Harry Harmer) Cheltenham: The History Press, 2019, £14.00 (h/b) The Stocklassa book is about the killing of Olof […]
[PDF file]: […] Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that ‘up to 30’ MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the […]
[…] things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. Other people are doing this, which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘ MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, […]
