[…] we can all study it — they gave it to a tame historian, hoping to bask in lots of favourable publicity while helping Mitrokhin to supplement his MI6 pension. The spooks’ chosen ghost-writer, Christopher Andrew, is a disingenuous creep who has sold out his academic integrity to slavishly toe the secret state’s party line […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] but, despite the usual shower of interesting fragments, mostly it is junk. Pincher’s primary strategy is clear enough. During the mid 1970s bureaucratic wars between MI5 and MI6, Maurice Oldfield, Chief of MI6, used Pincher to denigrate MI5, notably via a couple of stories supporting Harold Wilson’s claims that he was the victim of […]
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 […]
[…] of capital.(30)It is hard to say whether Sinn Fein were always seen as an integral part of this process by British administrations, but secret diplomacy resumed through MI6 in 1989 and this time proved more durable. It led to the Downing Street Declaration of 1992 and the deliberate scuppering of the Combined Loyalist Military […]
Introduction On May 20th this year the San Francisco Examiner ran a story by Kathy Kadane which began, ‘The U.S. government played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed … Read more
[…] and BP, announced their greatest ever profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex- MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of […]
By Peter Dale Scott (18,734 words) 10/29/05 See also A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11 (I wish to acknowledge the invaluable assistance in the preparation of this essay from N, a Russian who for the time being prefers to remain anonymous.) Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any … Read more
[…] Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. The report said that they had been allowed to do this in return for information on Turkish drug traffickers. Although they weren’t referred to in the report, I would guess that MI6 were involved in a deal of this size.
[…] centre of student politics rows in the 1960s in which a key figure was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement […]
