[PDF file]: […] lobby encouraged war with Japan with increasingly impossible diplomatic demands on Japan and then by suppressing intelligence about the pending attack on Pearl Harbour.5 It then allowed MI6 to assemble a 1000 strong force – British Security Co-ordination – in Washington and worked with it in 1940/41 in one the biggest covert operations ever […]
[PDF file]: […] to interest Western governments in this. Patrick Karegeya actually visited London (it was on this occasion that Wrong first met him) and handed ‘the recordings over to MI6, which circulated them around the Foreign Office and Department for International Development’. In the USA, the recordings were handed over to the FBI. As she points […]
[…] Philip Kerr was prime minister Lloyd George’s private secretary during WW1, but not that Kerr was one of the Round Table’s leaders.) 2. The enormous British (mostly MI6) operation against the American isolationists in the early years of WW2 described by Thomas Mahl in his PhD and subsequent book, Desperate Deception (Virginia: Brassey’s, 1989) […]
[PDF file]: […] the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and 18 British army soldiers at Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a […]
[PDF file]: […] defence. It was only when Geoffrey Robertson QC, counsel for Paul Henderson, against the advice of counsel for the other two defendants, brought out Henderson’s links with MI6 that the judge ordered disclosure of documents relating to the security services, having earlier, after Alan Clark’s sensational evidence, allowed only disclosure of documents relating to […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] the split is twice as much research into a field that is mostly ignored by the mainstream press. Both are worth investigating for their research on MI5, MI6 and other covert state activities, research that is largely unavailable elsewhere. While Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, […]
[PDF file]: […] specialist apps such as speech recognition which can “spot” and translate particular voices from hours’ worth of intercept recordings. The deal will also allow GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 to conduct faster searches on each other’s databases.2 In the same report: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre […]
[PDF file]: […] uncovered you unload upon him all the blame for every unsolved 28 See West (see note 23) p. 850. ‘Was Kim Philby offered escape to Moscow by MI6 agent?’, Daily Mail 1 March 2014 or . 29 30 See note 29. ‘In from the cold: a new book reveals the inner world of British […]
[PDF file]: […] subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g. the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a handful of secrets about MI6 in a book in the 1930s – but unwilling to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers […]
[PDF file]: […] claimed that meetings between Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax and Rudolf Hess took place in Spain and Portugal between February and April 1941.24 On Stewart Menzies, Chief of MI6, Channon notes (5 January 1942): ‘Stewart Menzies is an old acquaintance and greeted me warmly I found Stewart sympathetic and sensible He is balanced and Conservative […]
