[…] his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. But that’s about all there is. Finally, this book’s dust jacket must be a contender for the prize for most inaccurate jacket ever […]
[…] ENGINEER GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM WORLD FEATURES 80’s […]
[…] errors per page.’ (p.284) After the legal problems with his book on the Profumo Affair and the disastrous appearance on the LWT programme on the trial of Hollis, Knightley’s reputation is at an all time low. West’s version of Wynne is to be found in his book The Friends (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988). (See […]
[…] in these withered old branches”. Waugh had been a friend of at least one MI5 officer, its boss and also victim of a smear campaign, Sir Roger Hollis. According to this scenario, Big Jim, the first to know of Wilson’s resignation plans, turns out to be the secret beneficiary of the Wilson plots. No […]
[…] they might make, would not be believed. Both men were approached and asked to carry out unlawful tasks. Holroyd was given an unattributable weapon by WO2 Eric Hollis, Intelligence Collator at HQ 3 Brigade and asked to plant it on a victim. In fact he handed it to the RUC Special Branch. Wallace was […]
[…] following up the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, ‘There is nothing in it’. In 1964 Angleton returned to the subject and said that he […]
[…] Many of the entries have made use of probate records to estimate ‘wealth at death’. At today’s monetary values, A. K Chesterton left approximately £16,000, Sir Roger Hollis £258,633 and Sir Maurice Oldfield £266,951. But the winner from this, admittedly random, selection has to be Anthony Blunt with an estate of £1,704,445. For further […]
[…] remains one question. During and after the war de Courcy became convinced that there were a large number of Soviet ‘moles’ in the British establishment (including Roger Hollis) and that the chief recruiter for them had been Victor Rothschild. Where did he get this idea? Was it a result of anti-Communist paranoia, as most […]
The Robert Henderson/Tony Blair story. Having failed to persuade any section of the British political class then in power to do anything about a wrong he had suffered at the hands of the media, Robert Henderson wrote letters to the then Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair – 13 letters in all. This is Henderson’s … Read more
[…] that none exist. Dodds-Parker then convened the meeting which Mayhew described, attended by the Cabinet Secretary Brook, Patrick Dean of the FO, Reddaway from IRD and Roger Hollis D-G of MI5, at which the Cabinet Secretary ordered MI5 to give their intelligence on the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to IRD for their […]
