[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] was required under Official Secrets Act. But after privatisation…? Guardian 19th May Various allegations of tapping during miner’s strike – see miners and police in this issue. MI5 Two pieces by Duncan Campbell and Steve Connor on MI5’s new nationwide 200 terminal computer net. New Statesman 2nd March, New Scientist 1st March 1984. Pieces […]
[…] in a world of plots and schemes and politics? A new quasi-secret police? This new co-ordinated system will, we are told, be expected to work closely with MI5. We may have, in effect, a new quasi-secret police in place, with community police officers possibly being transformed into part-time intelligence officers. SO15 (as it is […]
