Contents Lobster 58 Spookaroonie! Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Page 132 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review […]
[…] Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]
[PDF file]: […] one of whom was a representative on the Committee and two of whom were members of the Committee’s Jeffery’s book contains a total of 196 names of MI6 officers, 10 MI6 staff (administration), 57 agents of MI6 and 30 officers of foreign intelligence organisations. 2 secretariat, the FCO sought to rely on section 23(1) […]
[PDF file]: […] 10 Attlee, too, went full term in 1950, and almost lost. In 1963 the US (specifically the CIA) lost patience with the British old boy network running MI6, following the imprisonment of John Vassall, Philby’s defection and the news that John Profumo MP had, possibly, shared a girl friend with the Soviet naval attaché […]
[PDF file]: […] it uses techniques that are so close to those of state espionage, it should come as no surprise that Palantir Technologies has Sir Mark Allen (the ex- MI6 officer who is a suspect in rendition cases) as ‘a senior adviser’.34 Sir Mark is an honorary fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, specialising in Arabic […]
[PDF file]: […] was conducted by the father of Labour Shadow 1 2 3 Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander and attended by, among others, Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale, the former senior MI6 figure who advised John Smith. Smith’s widow was for a time on the board of Hakluyt, run by several ex-MI6 people (Lobsters passim).4 When I read […]
[…] 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]: […] include the late Stephan Adolphus Kock, a former officer in the Rhodesian Special Air Service, consultant to the Midland Bank and putative agent of both MI5 and Mi6; and Sir John Cuckney, a former MI5 officer. Both died in 2008. The document also describes the actions taken by HMG to cover-up its arms dealing […]
[PDF file]: […] begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; nor for its next claim that former MI6 man Nicholas Elliott was ‘a controller of the London-based Sikh radical, Jagjit […]
[PDF file]: […] and then introduced its partial ban on fox-hunting. Any link between the two events was denied, of course. See . 73 or 74 23 ‘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: […]
