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
[…] was assistant editor of The Economist. Lloyd and Leonard Jr. keep interesting company at the FPC. Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (see above) is ‘senior researcher’ and career MI6 officer Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay is on the advisory council. Alongside Lloyd and Ramsay are Sir Michael Butler, the former British permanent representative to the European […]
Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more
[…] subtle than that. In any case, the JIC precisely certified as ‘genuine’ intelligence which was ‘false and dubious’: it has almost all had to be ‘withdrawn’ by MI6. () Indeed, as the Australian analyst Rob Barton has told us, the JIC Chair, John Scarlett was still trying to get ‘false and dubious’ intelligence put […]
[…] the London- based Forum World Features ‘news service’, which was subsequently exposed in the mainstream American and British press as a propaganda agency for the CIA and MI6. For excellent summaries of the histories of Crozier and ISC, see State Research 1 (October 1977) and appendices 1 and 8 of Lobster 11. Nevertheless, many […]
[…] this isn’t it. West’s determination to stay on-side with his state informants prevents him from doing anything credible. In a comment on Stephen Dorril’s new book about MI6 on intelforum (www.intelforum.org) West concluded with this: ‘Dorril’s book resembles (sic), in my judgment, a useful work of reference for what has appeared in the newspapers’. […]
[…] intelligence force, answerable to the Home Secretary, freeing SIS to continue with its core functions, answerable to the Foreign Secretary’. This would avoid a ‘wholesale take-over of MI6 priorities by MI5-led anti-terrorism operations,’ which, he said, many intelligence operatives fear.Note: In the ‘old’ days spook lobbying and territorial warfare were invisible. Given other associations […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] into play some awkward facts. The UK’s largest Muslim minority is from Pakistan. Western engagement against Islamism in Western Asia would naturally create conflicts of loyalty. While MI6 might enjoy itself understanding the intricacies of Pathan tribal politics, it was MI5 that was going to have to pick up the pieces. As we move […]
