[…] 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.’ or 1 1 Well no, actually, it wasn’t. Begun in 2015, apparently as a response to the Russian […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] p. 127. 1 Jewish Chronicle, London, 15 January 2016: 2 Tamara Deutscher, preface to the Non-Jewish Jew And Other Essays, (London: Verso, 2017). 3 assistant chief of MI6 had released a large amount of hard currency to persuade Tancred Borenius to take a flight to neutral Portugal. From there he took a dangerous journey […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] extension of SIS, this appointment added some little credence to the notion that John Smith, like his Glasgow University contemporary Baroness ‘Meta’ Ramsay, had been recruited by MI6 while a student.28 It might also help make intelligible Smith’s role on the Bilderberg steering group. What is The Guardian? An interesting piece on The Guardian […]
[PDF file]: […] Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran operations in Northern Ireland’. (p. 23) 2 ‘Apparently’? Fred was briefly sent to the Army mental hospital at Netley while he was still […]
[PDF file]: […] that period, a permanent network of stable private companies was established – ready to fight wars for profit with the covert encouragement of the Foreign Office and MI6. As Miller puts it, by the 1980s these companies ‘were part of a booming industry, fuelled by free market Thatcherism and relentless privatisation, and supercharged by […]
[PDF file]: […] me again’. (pp. 20, 22, 25). 1 At the time, he was thinking of a career in journalism, but instead, after Cambridge, he eventually ended up in MI6, as one does. He was sent to Russia in April 1990 and ended up head of the Russia Desk. How convincing is this self-portrayal? Obviously one […]
[PDF file]: […] (‘an early career platform that connects students and graduates with the opportunities, advice and insights they need to kickstart their careers’) hinted at such, saying ‘MI5 and MI6 may be different organisations, but we share the same goal’. See or . 1 See or . 2 3 See or 4 1 death that resulted […]
[…] 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 […]
