[…] During my duties with MI5 I also maintained a very close personal and professional relationship with an officer from the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Whilst a serving SIS officer (he) joined a private detective agency with which I was associated, and carried out private investigations of a covert nature. He also arranged for a […]
[…] final explanation for the money found on his body (P199 et seq). Notes Online (PDF format) at Full text reproduced at Despite the general rubbishing of former SIS officer Richard Tomlinson and his allegations about an SIS proposal to assassinate Milosevich, the SIS officer he named did indeed recall that he had proposed the […]
[…] doubts the wisdom of accepting an unelected central bank is called a nationalist or a trouble-maker, or is assumed to be launching a crude leadership bid.'(5) (empha sis added) Opposing the European Union (EU), a section of the British Labour Left is in danger of contamination by a section of the Tory Right, which […]
Publications Orders for the Captain James Kelly (Kelly-Kane, Bailieboro, Ireland, 1971/86) Kelly’s Gene sis of Revolution, reviewed in Lobster 13 gave an overview of the Irish situation during the period 1969-73, from the Dublin arms trials to the failure of Sunningdale. It advanced the theory that a war of attrition between the British Army […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] result is very interesting indeed: part biography, part autobiography, part history, and part historical travelogue through the countries of Central Europe in which Elliott’s father worked for SIS and SOE before, during and after the war. Almost incidentally there are interesting snippets about SIS people and operations – but that isn’t the focus of […]
[…] he would be likely to express them.”‘ In fact there is a quite an interesting account here, not only of the business of being an agent for SIS – presumably it is SIS, though other agencies are possible; and the author never quite resolves this – but also of the University of Aberystwyth, its […]
