[…] Mao was the equivalent of Russia’s winning China chimed exactly with Burgess’s line, that Mao was the leader of a Russian-style Communism on a strict Leninist analy sis, only carrying it one stage further.’ (p. 214) In the section on the Profumo Affair, West states: ‘ Ward was being used by MI5 but, more […]
[…] hearing in Dutch Parliament by Jelle van Buuren (27/6/00): www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6870/1.html In the US: The House Select C’tee on Intelligence has been asking questions about the legal ba sis for NSA’s Echelon activities (US law severely limits the ability of the intelligence agencies to engage in domestic surveillance).(www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/echfaq3.htm) Attempts in Congress to make it a […]
[…] extremely smelly. “…key intelligence did not immediately reach Carrington, either raw, in summary or by way of assessment … At the Joint Intelligence Committee level, however, the SIS report (of a firm Argentine intention to invade – RR) ..was considered sufficiently important for the Chiefs of Staff to be informed.” (4) Tam Dalyell’s nose […]
[…] the internet in making available information in the public interest is clear; for example, John Young, of the cryptome site, had received telephone calls on behalf of SIS, asking him to remove the CX95 document (concerning MI6 involvement with a plot to kill Gaddafy) from his website, but refused. But should anything be published […]
[…] about the authenticity of the ‘Langemann report’, it contains a number of what appear to be striking errors: viz it describes Nicholas Elliot as “former director of SIS”. We are conscious of the fact that the report in PP/Intelligence may well be the end product of a complicated translation process: from German into French, […]
[…] gave me a list of MPs (about 20) and a list of correspondents (about 70). The only correspondent whose name I recall is Bee Carthew, another former SIS officer. Generally ‘correspondents’ were Tory Party members active in various parts of the country. I would circulate a draft which the correspondents would use as a […]
[…] issue in the books section, on pages 50 and 51 there is an extract from a memorandum written by G. K. Young in 1955 while he was SIS no. 2. This is as clear an exposition as I have seen of the view of the spy as society’s elite which underpins so many of […]
[…] Pacific is Peace Researcher; Journal of the Anti-Bases Campaign. I have received issue 5 which includes several interesting, well documented pieces on the activities of ASIO, A SIS, the US Air Force in the region, and on GCHQ’s move from Hong Kong to Australia. Overseas subscriptions are $25 Australian per annum, to Peace Researcher, […]
[…] to signify. Since when, if he has produced another issue I haven’t heard of it. Steve Dorril is very good at what he does, his book on SIS is a huge achievement; as I said in my review of it in Tribune, it is a landmark in the field. He just isn’t – and […]
[…] Howard Smith with Philip Woodhead as his desk man in London, MI6 handled their Kincora agents through a number of ‘cut-outs’ – the normal way of distancing SIS officers from events which might go wrong. The man who orchestrated the various activities of the Kincora Ring has been identified as a Lt. Colonel in […]
