[…] Maybe it comes down to this. Were I living in the Soviet bloc I would be extremely interested in – and fearful of – that bloc’s intelligence/ security agencies. Living in Britain I can see little reason to be interested in, let alone fearful of, their activities. But looking at Northern Ireland, or the […]
[…] MI6 station chief Budapest 1941 (Letter, The Times, 22 April 1991). Douglas Gordon: British Consul-General Aden, expelled for spying (Sunday Correspondent 26 August 1990). J. Johnston: Radio Security Service in WW2 (letter, Sunday Telegraph 12 August 1990). Group Captain William Cross: Expelled Algeria (Independent 15 April 1991). John Peskett: “Former Intelligence Officer’ (letter, Sunday […]
[…] protest against the Heath government’s 20% inflation. Gorman, pp. 162 and 3 For the complete list, and some details see Blum. The head of the US National Security Council said the British economic crisis ‘was considered by us in the White House at that time as the greatest single threat to the stability of […]
[…] Evidence that Bertl was maybe not so innocent, and had links with Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983). Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983). 7. SA propaganda links to […]
[…] ‘briefings’ put out by IRD in the 1970s and is proof that while IRD may have officially closed, its functions continue in other guises. Canadian Association For Security And Intelligence Studies Newsletter Issue 10 arrived, chock full of news and details of books recent and forthcoming in the intelligence field. It includes a couple […]
[…] appeared to be taking the allegations seriously. In the final paragraphs the Telegraph provided what looks like a fall-back position if bodies are found: ‘Privately, police and security forces veterans believe that “Bruce” could have been part of a renegade band of soldiers who may have carried out some “freelance killings.”‘ To my knowledge […]
[…] reasons. They didn’t understand the material and were too busy to learn it. The Labour Party leadership was then and remains utterly paranoid about going near ‘national security’ issues, afraid of being smeared as ‘unpatriotic’ by the Murdoch-owned media. The Labour Party leadership, then and now, is afraid of tangling with the secret state […]
[…] down to this: ‘Today Cathy Massiter continues to live in East Sussex, having escaped unscathed after a series of disclosures about the performance and operations of the Security Service which led to litigation before the European Court.’ And rather than quoting from her affidavits, or from the various tv programmes she appeared on, absurdly […]
Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, £18.99, h/b According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and … Read more
[…] UK. For a free market Tory regime could not be seen actively – let alone successfully – intervening in the domestic manufacturing economy. And because the ‘national security’ blanket could be thrown over arms sales, the payment of millions – maybe billions – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse […]
