[…] writes that the Brandt Affair “had involved at least four of the West’s Intelligence agencies, working in partnership with each other — the West Germans, the French, MI5 and the CIA’.(1) A Sunday Times “Insight” article informs us that MI5’s Director General Michael Hanley first quarrelled with Wilson over the case of Judith Hart, […]
[…] to his removal from the Army and an attempt to discredit him, which has been largely successful, was made when the MI6 operation was taken over by MI5 in 1975 – by many of the same people who are dealt with in Peter Wright’s book, and many of the same people who are alleged […]
[…] a decade ago. A Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the journalist with the closest links to the British intelligence services, Chapman Pincher, both said that elements of MI5 had been trying to bring down the Labour Government during 1974-76 – and nothing happened. There was no serious investigation by British journalists, the Labour Party […]
Dr David Turner went to former MI5 Director-General Stella Rimington’s book-signing at Hatchard’s, Piccadilly, on 18 September 2001, where the following exchange took place. Turner (presenting book for signing after queuing briefly behind several people, including a woman wearing an Anarchist badge) ‘Hello. Do you mind a lengthy inscription?’ Rimington (smiling, flanked by […]
[…] give her name) that Clarissa Churchill, acting on information from Guy Liddell, had inadvertently given Burgess the nudge to defect by warning him as a friend that MI5 were closing in on Maclean. In the same year, she married Anthony Eden, who became Prime Minister on Churchill’s retirement. Around the time of Suez, while […]
[…] internal documents, phone calls, meetings (public and private) from an enormous variety of groups on the neo-fascist British Right. Who could achieve this kind of penetration? Only MI5 could, I thought. Then I re-read the story of the ‘Gable memo’ in the New Statesman — and that was the case closed as far as […]
[…] support it. Formally they did – how could they not? – but they could see as well as others that it was going to be a disaster. MI5 must have known about the CPGB’s lack of enthusiasm since they had the CPGB penetrated from top to bottom. So there’s another story to be told: […]
[…] one William Massie. His name has appeared on some interesting material recently: viz: 14th February 1988, front page story in the Sunday Express based on leak from MI5 – complete with surveillance photograph – on alleged contact between the then Labour MP John Diamond and two Yugoslav women. The article contained the women’s passport […]
[…] travelling to Moscow, not to Washington. The Wilson era The Wilson years have been researched in more detail and we can skim across them even more quickly. MI5, encouraged by a section of the CIA, began ploughing through the PLP and Wilson’s entourage looking for Soviet espionage. And found none, incidentally. On Gaitskell’s death […]
[…] that ‘It is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we are doing what we can to look into them.’ The Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya In The Bulletin, the US weekly paper of the Workers’ League, July 20 edition, there is an exchange of letters between Ken Livingstone MP […]
