[…] briefed he really reported to that office.’ This is important confirmation of one of the central political facts about Information Policy: it was perceived as partly an MI6 operation. Hence the hostility to Wallace shown by MI5 when it got overall control of the intelligence set-up in Northern Ireland. Rubbishing Wallace Since what has […]
[…] is still transparently false. There is no ‘syndicate’, no matter how loosely you define it – and his definition is very loose indeed. And how long are authors going to continue taking seriously John Coleman (he of the ‘Committee of 300’ nonsense, cited extensively here), and his description of himself as a former MI6 officer?
[…] Duke of Hamilton later in the war got RAF permission to sue the Communist Daily Worker newspaper for suggesting he was part of a pro-Nazi peace plot. MI6, who had in 1940 intercepted a letter to the Duke of Hamilton, sent from Berlin via Lisbon, had exonerated the Duke of being implicated in peace […]
[…] reality in the media etc.. It became absurd to deny the existence of large-scale conspiracies, of powerful ‘hidden forces’, the day the CIA (or the Politburo, or MI6) was begun. The interesting questions, the rational questions are not ‘Are there such things as hidden influences in political/social life?’; but, ‘Given that there are such […]
[…] conference; an interview with the AIDS theorist Alan Cantwell, and some shorter pieces on the Waco siege, the Danny Casolaro story, and the death of the British MI6 agent Ian Spiro. A $5.00 bill should elicit a sample copy from Paranoia, PO Box 3570, Cranston, RI 02910, USA. (Subs outside the U.S. $24.00 for […]
[…] to be that if they did their job more intelligently, they could be a genuine bulwark of democracy. ‘Perhaps it is time for the ”sensible chaps” in MI6 to rescue their political initiatives’, Dorril concludes in his chapter on Ireland. This ‘sensibleness’ is the hallmark of the current reforms, which have resulted in copies […]
[…] it is. Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; and the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) […]
[…] we should also mention that MacShane is on the policy council of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) whose chair in the House of Lords is old MI6 hand Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale. LFI It proved to be a heavy security presence in Whitehall for an LFI event in April that caused the re-routing […]
[…] Foreign Affairs Publishing Company of Geoffrey Stewart-Smith. Keston College, the British centre of the study of religion in the Soviet Union, certainly, but not yet provably, an MI6 operation. Soviet suspicion of Keston led to the collapse of a planned visit to Moscow by a British human rights mission in October 1989 when one […]
[…] also written, film and sound archives. There’s also a fair sprinkling of ‘private information’ and ‘personal knowledge’. Thus John Bruce Lockhart’s entry for former Deputy Chief of MI6 and founder of Unison and Tory Action in the 1970s George Kennedy Young (‘…an outstanding figure with his great height red hair…’) rather magnanimously depicts him […]
