[…] was designed to be refused. Rawnsley swallowed the lot. I-oops It has been a bad few months for the British media’s relationship with the psy-ops boys in SIS. First the BBC’s David Shukman fronted a piece apparently planted on the BBC by them which claimed that an African company Oryx was a source of […]
[…] the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, he’d worked for Special Branch in the 1970s, snitching on the miners during the miners’ strike of 1974! A report in […]
[…] Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service ( SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly handed the file to the Prime Minister, thus ensuring that […]
[…] freedom of information legislation in this country, Falconer came out with a classic in the New Labour’s Dodgy Excuses collection. ‘The Government approaches openness on the ba sis of improving how government operates, for the benefit of the public. Many sections of the press do not approach it in that way. Instead, many approach […]
Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of […]
[…] first step towards the creation of Europe’s own spy agency, based in Brussels. And in the Daily Telegraph of 28 February 2000, Alan Judd, the former (?) SIS officer Alan Petty (26) warned of plans to create an EU army. All of which is indigestible to sections of the British state, virtually the whole […]
Richard Beeston Brassey’s, London and Washington, 1997 no price stated This is worth skimming through, especially for the early 1950s period when Beeston was very close to SIS operations in the Middle East. These early chapters convey very clearly how the patriotic British journalist of the period rubbed shoulders with his country’s ‘secret agents’ […]
[…] governments have suppressed the truth because it would reveal as fiction the story that Britain stood alone and united against Germany in 1940-41. Such is Costello’s the sis. His book has considerable merits. It is well researched, drawing upon a wide selection of primary sources ranging from official archives in the UK, France, Germany, […]
[…] out but I have to say this isn’t very good. The ‘hidden years’ in the title refers to the years Philby spent in Beirut, parked there by SIS. Thus we get short chapters on the overthrow of the Mossadeq government in Iran (which occurred before Philby arrived in Beirut); the curious ‘invasion’ of Lebanon […]
[…] massive problems with the left-wing of the Labour Party in and outside parliament. And in those days this mattered. The second reason was suggested by the former SIS officer Anthony Cavendish, who told me twenty years ago that Maurice Oldfield, when deputy chief of SIS, had warned Wilson not get embroiled in Vietnam. Oldfield […]
