[…] 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 […]
[…] likely to be futile because of its decentralised nature as was shown recently when the government was unable to prevent the distribution of a list of alleged MI6 officers.(32) Governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have become increasingly concerned, citing the Internet’s use by criminals, terrorists and paedophiles to justify attempts to impose controls. […]
[…] York: Free Press, 2006), 225: “It is believed in some quarters that while Omar Sheikh was at the LSE he was recruited by the British intelligence agency MI6. It is said that MI6 persuaded him to take an active part in demonstrations against Serbian aggression in Bosnia and even sent him to Kosovo to […]
[…] a subject on which Gordievsky, still a defector in place when it was published, was an expert on the Soviet side? A Cavendish miscellany Anthony Cavendish, former MI6 officer, banker and author of the longest ‘Christmas card’ in recorded history — his book Inside Intelligence — wrote to inform me of the following appertaining […]
[…] and intelligence between the Army and the RUC at all levels up to Brigade. However, some of the successful operatives were recruited by Mr Craig Smellie of MI6, to operate on cross-border duties. Holroyd was one of this small group. John Colin Wallace, an Ulsterman from Ballymena, was a civil servant employed at Headquarters […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] time. On page 58 we are told that Watergate was an anti-Nixon operation run by ‘the combined forces of Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6.’ Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would be chucked in as well? Prominent among the author’s sources are Anthony Sutton, Gary Allen, of None Dare Call […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] pressure’ from the Cabinet Office on the then ex-Prime Minister. (p. 320 ) In the House of Commons on 14 December 1977 Stephen Hastings MP, a former MI6 officer, using Parliamentary privilege, ran the disinformation attributed to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were ‘agents’ […]
[…] 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. […]
