[…] but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 officer Geoffrey Tantum as Le […]
[…] Brown and co., London, 1993 Shoot the marketing department. There is almost nothing about ‘moles’ in this book. The reality is a mildly interesting account of Bristow’s MI6 career from 1940-1956, most of it spent in Spain. A few names are named — but 40 years on, who gives a toss? Well, rumour has […]
[…] about the packed lunch…. I’m old enough to remember when the Sunday Times was a credible paper. Timor docs hidden Under the headline, ‘Britain keeps lid on MI6 role in ousting Sukarno’, Paul Lashmar in The Independent on 5 October reported: ‘…documents which would reveal Britain’s secret role in Indonesian politics in the Sixties […]
[…] we have Norman Baker, the Liberal-Democrat MP, who has kind of inherited the ‘awkward squad’ mantle from Tam Dalyell. He has had a short Commons debate on MI6 () and he is now pursuing the death of Dr David Kelly. In July he wrote ‘I believe David Kelly did not commit suicide – and […]
[…] to this security/intelligence interest. The financial problems of the group would have been a matter of some concern to sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction […]
[…] However, when the car was examined by Operation Paget’s forensic team it was declared it to be in ‘good working order’.() The Security Services Unsurprisingly MI5 and MI6 have denied any involvement in the crash. Equally unsurprisingly their denial has not halted speculation. Members of an MI6 death squad were allegedly in Paris on […]
[…] link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds links to […]
[…] but briefly: before the war de Courcy had been active in appeasement circles through his Imperial Policy Group which was close to Chamberlain and the head of MI6, Sir Stewart Menzies. A prominent anti-communist, de Courcy and the IPG had been active supporters of encouraging war against the Bolsheviks – a policy which inevitably […]
[…] that she had died. “The young woman has the best chance of coming out all right,” he had assured a friend.'(19) More on Henri Paul The former MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson, commenting on the size of Henri Paul’s bank account, is convinced that he must have been in the employ of British intelligence. ‘French […]
[…] In April 1961 the West’s most important Soviet spy, Oleg Penkovsky, arrived in London on a trade mission, staying until May 6th. The material he gave to MI6 and CIA representatives was to prove vital to resolving the Cuban missile crisis: Kennedy would base his final decisions on the Penkovsky material. (14) During this […]
