[…] of names from the British Right, from the context obviously there as some kind of allies. They are: The Society for Individual Freedom, G.K.Young (SIF member, ex MI6, Unison Committee for Action, Monday Club), Gerald Howarth (now a Tory MP: at the time in SIF), Francis Bennion (SIF, the brains behind the attempt to […]
[…] and dining favoured journalists and editors‘ (emphasis added). Tomlinson later alleged that Dominic Lawson, editor of the Sunday Telegraph, and former editor of the Spectator, was an MI6 agent. This was run through the House of Commons by Brian Sedgemore MP. Cue many hundreds of column inches of newsprint. At the end of which […]
[…] successful running of a section set up to counter Middle Eastern terrorism.’ This, I assume, means that Sir David at one time headed up a joint MI5/ MI6 counter-terrorism group known as G7 which ‘was disbanded when MI5 felt there was too much emphasis on political intelligence rather than counter-terrorism intelligence.’ (11) That is […]
[…] the policies of Merlyn Rees, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; The authors examine: the role of MI5 in domestic politics; the struggle between MI5 and MI6 for control in Northern Ireland; the National Association for Freedom, and, in particular, that organisation’s links to British intelligence; and show the links between some of […]
[…] there was no mention of any wound in the post mortem. Andrew Rosthorn writes: Kenneth de Courcy, 80 year old former personal agent for Churchill’s wartime MI6 chief, Sir Stewart Menzies, says that two files have been stolen from his personnal archive, which is preserved at the Hoover Institution in the University of […]
[…] stage, with much more powerful economies, who have only small or nonexistent external intelligence gathering operations. Japan or Germany, for example. Could the money Britain spends on MI6 not be spent better elsewhere, on health care or education?’ A flicker of a smile crossed McColl’s lips. “Ah, young man, you overlook the fact that […]
[…] political, as well as ministerial, agenda. At the time of his visit, the former British colony was wracked by covert operations being mounted by the CIA and MI6. By way of background, the most important political group in the country was the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), established by Dr. Cheddi Jagan during the 1940s. […]
[…] the other hand, maybe he didn’t trust Mr Blair and went to the meetings wired. In Lobster 9, in 1985, Ashdown was named as having been in MI6 by Steve Dorril, in the first batch of what eventually became the Who’s Who of the British Secret State. Though I cannot remember why Dorril thought […]
[…] Times article of 29 October 2000 Labour MP Tam Dalyell wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, who helped to persuade Wilson not to accede to Lyndon Johnson’s request to send a battalion of bagpipers (sic) to Vietnam. […]
[…] Chair of British Youth Council. The British Youth Council began as the British section of the World Assembly of Youth, which was set up and financed by MI6 and then taken over by the CIA in the 1950s, created to combat the Soviet Union’s youth fronts. By Mandelson’s time in the mid1970s under a […]
