[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), former SAS Warrant Officer Ken Connor, who was involved in the creation of what later became known as ‘14 Int’, noted: ‘MI5 and MI6 had only one thing in common: a shared contempt for the RUC Special Branch, which they regarded as staffed by incompetents.’ He also reported that MI5 […]
[PDF file]: […] weak.’1 8 Given the diminishment in the UK’s fortunes caused by what happened after 1939 this seems a not unreasonable conclusion. After the war Klop switched to MI6, dealing frequently with Kim Philby. He worked through to his retirement in 1957 but the account of his life seems to indicate that he did little […]
[…] Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd after he MI5 and Ireland’. was apparently confined to a mental hospital made public the turf war that raged between MI6 over who ran operations in Northern (p. 23) ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he was still serving and […]
[…] met the second love of her live, Jim. The third section of this extraordinary tale begins in 1993 when she was recruited into an illegal joint MI5/ MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. […]
[…] he was paranoid. Yes, Wilson attributed too much to MI5 when some of the briefings and smear stories were coming from other sources – for example former MI6 deputy chief G. K. Young (though from whom did Young get his information?). Some of those who came along a decade after Wilson had tried to […]
[…] But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the same as being a spy. During the war Ian Fleming knew Philby when he served as the MI6 man in the Iberian peninsula (that included Spain and Portugal), and Fleming was the Assistant to the Chief of British Naval Intelligence Admiral Godfrey. Fleming had […]
[…] government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to try and combat Russian disinformation’. ‘Nonsense’, wrote Klarenberg. ‘IFS/II was a NATO/ MI6 front organisation concerned with starting war with Russia.’ Well no, actually, it wasn’t. Begun in 2015, apparently as a response to the Russian annexing of the […]
[…] government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to try and combat Russian disinformation’. ‘Nonsense’, wrote Klarenberg. ‘IFS/II was a NATO/ MI6 front organisation concerned with starting war with Russia.’ Well no, actually, it wasn’t. Begun in 2015, apparently as a response to the Russian annexing of the […]
