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The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

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[PDF file]: […] 1951, a secret group named the Anti-Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service (MI5). Chaired by cabinet secretary Norman Brook, the committee’s objective was ‘to keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] Brooks in Guardian 21 November 1991. 2 1 communist CPGB to which she belonged.3 Enter MI5 So far, so straightforward but, like most stories which involve the security services, there is more here than meets the eye. According to Falber, in 1958, the year the clandestine payments started, ‘MI5 were planning to break into […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] ‘The drama of failed warnings began when Tenet and Black pitched a plan, in the spring of 2001, called “the Blue Sky paper” to Bush’s new national security team. It called for a covert CIA and military campaign to end the Al Qaeda threat—”getting into the Afghan sanctuary, launching a paramilitary operation, creating a […]

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[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.12 And the Foreign Affairs review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its […]

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[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]

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[…] ‘the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] round State Research and the Leveller, and individuals like Duncan Campbell and Tony Bunyan, had worked out for themselves that Mrs Thatcher was the candidate of the security state. That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: ‘I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the story concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

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[PDF file]: […] his collaboration with Marks.19 6 – MI6 The writers for Friends/Frendz magazine, as well as James McCann and Howard Marks, were all on the radar of the security services. A retired police Special Branch officer, who worked in Northern Ireland and Britain in the 1970s, said that he knew ‘quite a lot about Friends’, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] co-opted by the prime minister’s chief press officer (Alastair Campbell) during the assault on Iraq? Of course a lot has not changed since 1989. The intelligence and security services remain entirely unaccountable. Then there seemed some slight chance that, via the Labour Party, something might be done about that. I even got a resolution […]