[…] 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 […]
[…] the reasons for this disruption are to damage his business, keep him impoverished and to put him under psychological pressure. He speculates that Special Branch and/ or MI5 may be involved and that an interception warrant, established during his earlier case, may be being continually renewed. Kennedy says he knows of other cases of […]
[…] denying that he was a member of the Communist Party or ever had been.’ (7) Mayne, who died in December 1988, had no doubt been targeted by MI5 throughout most of his career. He had been closely involved in the National Council for Civil Liberties, and in the mid-fifties was Secretary of the Campaign […]
[…] domestic political operations. In his A War of Words (reviewed in Lobster 36) the late Christopher Mayhew revealed the existence of a meeting in 1956 between IRD, MI5 and the Cabinet Secretary which, in Mayhew’s words ‘led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haskell from the leadership of the electrical trade […]
[PDF file]: Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher Covert operations in British politics 1974-1978 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril Introduction: Kevin McNamara MP Any person who lived through the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next story […]
[PDF file]: MI5 speaks to the nation! Nick Must ‘How MI5 is adapting to fight coronavirus’1 was the headline on a BBC news online piece by Gordon Corera. In relation to that potential change in working practices, it quoted soon-to-depart MI5 chief, Sir Andrew Parker, thus: ‘You’ll understand if I don’t go into exactly the […]
[…] this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson- MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this story, Ware went […]
[…] did not do something else. ‘Hollis must have been better placed than almost anyone else..’ (p. 112) ‘He would have been the obvious choice removing communists from MI5 (p. 124) ‘There is another pointer to Hollis’s collusion with the Communist Party’ (p. 124) ‘Hollis also took the view, it seems‘ (p. 125) ‘Hollis would […]
[…] is going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in anger, yet nothing changes. […]
