[…] is America? Is it just personal greed? See no evil On a single day in mid August I found the following stories on dailymaverick.co.za: ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: […]
[PDF file]: […] crying out for their own Peter O’Toole. Allen is an intellectual and expert on Islamic calligraphy who has written a study of Arab Falconry. Yet the former MI6 officer also seems to have signed–off on the abduction and rendition of opponents of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to help secure an oil deal between the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] was held close, and nothing was written down’. Wilson was also an enthusiast for covert operations. He continued the Tories’ secret wars in Yemen and Indonesia, told MI6 to assassinate Idi Amin (they refused) and gave the United States considerable covert assistance in Vietnam. That Wilson kept Britain out of the Vietnam War is […]
[PDF file]: […] Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community has a […]
[PDF file]: […] is a testimony to the resistance of the CIA’s intelligence analysts. In the UK the estimates from the two main agencies, the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) and MI6 (or SIS) are fed into the Joint Intelligence Committee which produces the final version. That, at least, is the theory. In practice, in this instance, the […]
[PDF file]: […] announced: ‘This is the personal account of the start of the Lebanese civil war in 1976 as seen through the eyes of the British Chargé d’Affaires and MI6 Head of Station in Beirut, Geoffrey Hancock.’ Oh, thought I, how many other memoirs by an MI6 Head of Station do we have? None that I […]
[PDF file]: […] nd then there as the case of Rory Stewart, new Tory MP for Penrith and the Border, still sort of trying to deny that he was an MI6 officer. A piece in the Telegraph 5 said ‘Stewart last year dismissed claims circulating on the internet that he himself had 4 At . 5 Jon […]
[PDF file]: […] and in his books that the role of the Auxiliary Units has been exaggerated by the passage of time. He argues that it was that efforts of MI6 which were most influential in the establishment of a staybehind network. I disagree – and not just because MI6 had insufficient resources within the UK for […]
[PDF file]: […] prisoner in Spandau. Karel Hille of the Dutch Tros channel produced a TV investigation titled De moord op de dubbelganger van Spandau, prompting the retired head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, to arrange for Hille to be given a Foreign Office personal file on Rudolf Hess for safekeeping abroad. Sir Maurice, a historian by […]
[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
