[…] 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 […]
[…] 1939 Irish Rifles (TA) London 1940 2nd Lt. KRRC Egypt 1941 8th Army 1943 GSOI (Intelligence) HQ 9th Army 1944 War Office 1945 Defence Security Officer (DSO) MI5, Palestine 1946 Demobbed Lt.Col. MI6 1950 Contested (for Cons.) Kettering 1952 Deputy Lt. Northants 1958-59 High Sheriff MENZIES, Maj. Gen. Sir Stewart Graham KCB (1951) KCMG(1943) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Faber and Faber, London, 1993 The title isn’t to be taken seriously. This is 610 pages of short extracts from some of the books written by British MI5 and MI6 personnel, with short biographical sections by ‘West’. Some of this is quite interesting — lots of it was new to me — but as […]
From Mark Hollingsworth As the journalist, along with Nick Fielding, who first reported David Shayler’s revelations about MI5 in the Mail on Sunday in 1997, I would like to set the record straight on your piece in Lobster 36 (‘Peter’s Friends’?) I have remained close to David Shayler and Annie Machon, his girlfriend and […]
Blob of the month Hear the one about the supposedly spook-watching magazine whose editor misspelt the name of the head of MI5? Yep: Rimmington, I had in the last issue: Rimington it should have been. Searchlight News Their campaign against Larry O’Hara has reached new depths. In the March issue they published his picture […]
[…] part of what was known as the UDA’s No 1 Assassination Team’); and the role of James Miller, the mid-1970s version of Brian Nelson. Take a bow MI5, for penetrating the UDA completely, twice getting an agent into the role of UDA ‘intelligence officer’. Bruce, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, […]
[…] eventually the Metropolitan Police admitted that Special Branch had a file on me. Use of the DPA has also resulted (after years of trying) in confirmation from MI5 that they have had a file on me since 1997. The Data Protection Tribunal (DPT) I made a subject access request to MI5 under the 1998 […]
[…] attitudes to Castro’s Cuba. No answers, but certainly more to investigate. Our own ‘mole’ hunt in Britain, spurred on by the recent efforts of ex-chief molehunter for MI5, Peter Wright, has recently produced a new piece in the jigsaw of Oswald in Mexico City. In 1963 James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter intelligence […]
