[…] a Polish military leader who wanted the West to back a Polish exile army. (15) Captain Henry Kerby, who arranged Pomeroy’s meeting with Anders, was a former MI6 officer and Russian expert turned Tory parliamentarian. Kerby, in turn, maintained long-standing close ties to Knupffer. (16) In his first article for Task Force in December […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Telegraph Coughlin falsely attributed a story about the son of Colonel Gadaffi to a ‘British banking official’ when it had been given to him by officers of MI6. In the course of losing the subsequent libel battle, it transpired MI6 had been supplying Coughlin with material for years. So who in September raised this […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] as the ‘enemy within’. We can reverse engineer the briefings to see MI5 and France as sharing a common ideology with US homeland security. (The exclusion of MI6 may be an oversight or meaningful.) This is the agenda of the international ‘war on terror’ lobby in a nutshell but it may have overplayed its […]
[…] 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 ’ MI6, BP and oil Reportedly the subject of a D-notice after it appeared in the Daily Mail, and subsequently withdrawn from that paper’s Website, Glen Owen’s ‘Hookers, […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is just a poor effort on Bethel’s part. One can’t deny that it is useful – after all, it is the first book written solely about an MI6 operation – but one is disappointed by its thinness and its viewpoint. Bethel’s (partly legitimate) excuse is that documentation is unavailable because of Kim Philby’s involvement […]
[…] what the British Left assumed Catholic Action in Britain was up to (but for which it never produced the evidence). Frank Steele (obit Guardian 5 January 1998) MI6 officer sent into Northern Ireland in 1971. Involved in 1972/3 attempts to resolve the conflict. C. Gordon Tether (obit Financial Times 3 December 1997) FT writer […]
