[…] context of the alleged Russian hacking of the presidential election, the American website Politico ran a story about the large operation run in the United States by MI6 during WW2. Under the light cover of British Security Coordination, with the permission of the then President Roosevelt, they attacked the isolationist opposition to American’s entry […]
[PDF file]: […] of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]
[PDF file]: […] TrumpRussia Dossier’, New York Times, 11 January 2017. No evidence has surfaced to corroborate these widely reported allegations, which appeared in an opposition research memos by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele. It remains to be seen whether Trump’s electoral success reflects a sea change in public attitudes or simply his unique ability to flout […]
[PDF file]: […] to capital letters creeping in. Surely it’s British Army not British army. Or did someone abolish proper nouns while I wasn’t watching? 35 the great MI5 vs MI6 battle of the period, the Sunday Times, then edited by Andrew Neil, was on MI5’s side. The lobby In this column below I noted that there […]
[PDF file]: […] John le Carré. 1 The Little Drummer Girl, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983). 2 Born David John Moore Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, 19 October 1931, ex-MI5, ex- MI6. 3 Agent Running in the Field, (London: Viking, 2019). 4 5 The Little Drummer Girl, foreword. The autobiography of the English-born Mossad field officer Olivia Frank […]
[PDF file]: […] field were involved in operations in the Yemen that were, at the very least, covertly approved by the government of the United Kingdom. Stephen Dorril’s book on MI6 has a chapter that details how both SIS and GCHQ provided what was, at times, significantly more than discrete assistance.3 The entire cadre of Stirling’s assistant […]
[PDF file]: […] at the time, it is even more important that the insistent objections of DIS analysts were circumvented through a deception apparently perpetrated on their own colleagues by MI6 and senior Cabinet Office intelligence officials. They claimed to have new intelligence that overcame our reservations, but were not prepared to disclose it to us. Almost […]
[…] someone abolish proper nouns while I wasn’t watching? 35 reportedly at the centre of the piece. The story was a complete invention. In the great MI5 vs MI6 battle of the period, the Sunday Times, then edited by Andrew Neil, was on MI5’s side. The lobby In this column below I noted that there […]
[…] at the time, it is even more important that the insistent objections of DIS analysts were circumvented through a deception apparently perpetrated on their own colleagues by MI6 and senior Cabinet Office intelligence officials. They claimed to have new intelligence that overcame our reservations, but were not prepared to disclose it to us. Almost […]
[PDF file]: […] our collection which support the claim that Burgess worked for MI5.’ Note that careful ‘not yet’. And note also the reference is only to MI5 and not MI6. But by the same token, there is absolutely nothing inherently improbable about a British novelist having a second job in intelligence: think of Graham Greene, Frederick […]
