The unspeakable Martin Kettle of The Guardian is a political journalist who has been pretty close to, and supportive of, New Labour since the 1990s. His article ‘The special relationship that squandered a noble cause’ (27 May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys […]
[…] ministers or officials what they knew about the inefficiency of the KGB and GRU’, remarks Urban. And vice versa, presumably. But MI5 helped smash the miners and MI6 ran Gordievsky who helped explain Gorbachev, and so MI5 and MI6 got their bids for new buildings through the system before oil revenues began drying up […]
[…] my own way. During my duties with MI5 I also maintained a very close personal and professional relationship with an officer from the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6). Whilst a serving SIS officer (he) joined a private detective agency with which I was associated, and carried out private investigations of a covert nature. He […]
[…] account does Rosenbaum little justice. His essay is extremely clever and runs through all the possible permutations of the Philby/Angleton relationship: Philby as KGB, pretending to be MI6; Philby as MI6 pretending to be KGB while pretending to be MI6; Angleton as KGB; and so on. The whole ‘wilderness of mirrors’ is laid out […]
[…] to crack down on IRA killer squads on the Continent … Mrs Thatcher, through her Security Coordinator, Sir Colin Figures, has issued unprecedented instructions to MI5 and MI6 in the hunt for the killers.” The same day Massie produced a piece about a “millionaire businessman said to be a KGB spymaster (who) is to […]
[…] few of us were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear-mongering, un-justified, proven wrong.” ’ MI6, BP and oil Reportedly the subject of a D-notice after it appeared in the Daily Mail, and subsequently withdrawn from that paper’s Website, Glen Owen’s ‘Hookers, […]
[…] Probably not, even in the best of circumstances; certainly not when the document in question happened to be lying about in an unguarded room in Baghdad. Would MI6 think it worthwhile fabricating such a document to nail Galloway? Of course. However we regard Galloway there is no doubt that the Telegraph has been used […]
[…] Common Cause, Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on the work of the Information Research Department of the Foreign […]
[…] intelligence.(7) When the Brandt-led SPD alliance with the Liberals was elected to office in October 1969, relations between some sections of the BND (West Germany’s equivalent of MI6) and Bonn reached a new low. Many of the leading SPD figures, including Brandt when he had been Mayor of West Berlin, had been placed under […]
The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of […]
