[…] then the reputations of such featured icons as the ‘golf balls’ at Fylingdales and Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, the Greenham Common airfield in Berkshire, and the MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross in central London. Many English landscapes particularly but not exclusively at airfields east of the Pennines, closest to our expected foes […]
[…] as a mixture of fact and fiction. I invited him to correct any errors we had made but have heard nothing.) Fielding’s account of McLean’s life makes it plain that McLean was an MI6 officer for most, if not all, of the post-war period. If true, Fielding’s claim above about Julian Amery is new. RR
[…] some British hostages. In some reports, in Private Eye in particular, it has been claimed that the whole affair was orchestrated by an alliance of right-wingers in MI6, the Foreign Office, Unita, and Lonrho. There is no direct evidence of this but it is clear that some people are highly embarrassed by Britain’s support […]
Observers of the activities of the neo-nazi Combat 18 (C18), otherwise known as the National Socialist Alliance (NSA), have been treated to some bewildering documents and allegations recently. In an attempt to clarify who is saying what, and why, I will examine the origins and initial purpose of C18, the role (if any) of alleged […]
[…] circulation of the document to various departments. The usual suspects are there: SIS, MI5, GCHQ and MOD get between 7 copies for MI5 and 20 copies for MI6. But also listed are 32 (yes 32) copies for the DTI. Why? I wonder. Some kind of export initiative?’ Or the DTI is full of spooks […]
[…] of the Munster and Leinster Bank to handle funds from the North for weapons purchases. Having drawn a blank at weapons supplies from America, and uncovered an MI6 agent called Captain Peter Markham-Randall who came to Dublin posing as an arms dealer, Northern representatives began negotiating with a Hamburg arms dealer called Otto Schleuter […]
[…] this and on Splinter Factor would be most welcome. Robin Ramsay Steve Dorril adds: If we assume that Operation Splinter Factor did take place, were the covert MI6 operations in the Baltic and Ukraine during this period part of it? Did the British launch their guerrilla operations with Soviet Bloc emigres knowing that while […]
[…] history use that expression. Knowledge entails disaggregation. Bruce’s index includes a reference to a tiny Scottish Protestant group, the Young Cowdenbeath Volunteers, but no reference to MI5, MI6, the RUC Special Branch or Information Policy. It’s not that the book isn’t interesting — it is. Like Dillon’s and Urban’s it contains many interesting bits […]
[…] in revolutionary politics. 3 Conspicuous by his absence from the author’s list is Arthur Ransome, recently revelealed to have been been working in the Soviet Union for MI6. 4 See Wilde’s Last Stand by Philip Hoare (1997), reviewed in Lobster 38. 5 Yes, seeds. This seems odd but this is what the author says. […]
[…] human rights and press freedom sites; newsgroups. Includes Richard Tomlinson’s May 1999 declaration to French magistrate on the death of Princess Diana (www.inside-news.ch/Tomlinson/Tomlinson_deposition.htm) and the list of MI6 officers (www.inside-news.ch/Tomlinson/List/Liste_Alpha.htm). Echelon Watch http://www.echelonwatch.org http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/index.html Website administered by the American Civil Liberties Union in conjunction with EPIC and the Omega Foundation, which produced the Appraisal […]
