[…] Islamic Fighting Group, our former enemy’s enemy, is our enemy. Libya’s new status as ‘friend’ is visible elsewhere. Con Coughlin, often a guide to the thinking within SIS, commented in The Sunday Telegraph, ‘Ratcheting up to the next war’ on 9 October, on the British policy of ‘kow-towing to the Iranians’. Wrote Coughlin: ‘As […]
A Channel 4 SOE mystery In January and February this year Channel 4 broadcast a history of the war-time Special Operations Executive, SOE, written and presented by the novelist Sebastian Faulks, called Churchill’s Secret Army. It was an interesting series with some excellent first-hand material and footage. But there were two mysteries. The first, and […]
[…] Baldwin and Chamberlain allowed him access to the intelligence product of Desmond Morton, head of the Industrial Intelligence Centre, and of Group Captain Frederick Winterbotham of the SIS Air Section.’ (15) Other sources were less formal. John Baker White, for example, the Director of the Economic League from 1926 til the end of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] JIC (Middle East) and JIC (Far East) have disappeared.’ (24) That they have is an unnoticed national scandal. The ‘approved’ will be able to concoct whatever back-history SIS chooses. (25) Not that, according to Defence Secretary Hoon, a back-history is of any consequence. Facing a courteous, articulate predominantly Arab audience – and profoundly out […]
[…] been given a five-year exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act. (‘Navy Cleared To Use a Sonar System Despite Fears for Whales’ at < www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1010-2002Jul15.html >) Ransome SIS not KGB In in ‘Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet Secret agent?’,(8) Andrew Rosthorn rebutted the charge made by Professor Christopher […]
[…] David Armstrong and Joseph Trento, the authors of another book on this subject, America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise. See also the 2005 account by David Rose – yes, that David Rose, ex SIS asset Rose – in Vanity Fair at On Rose and SIS see ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 54.
[…] from this article: “England’s action may undermine the prospects of a European Security Conference and may deter talks concerning balanced armament limitations.” Could that be the ba sis of long-range plans of English-American leaders concerning the NATO aggressive bloc? Question We ask that you present some facts about the BIS’s undermining activities during the […]
[…] on unofficial diplomatic missions in the late 1930s, and that his reports went to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and to Stewart Menzies, Deputy to the Chief of SIS, Hugh Sinclair (until the latter’s death in November 1939 when Menzies took over). Another of his supporters in the government was R. A. Butler, junior Minister […]
