[…] Service, MI5.” (2) Waugh was close to the Hollis family. Roger’s brother Christopher was a godfather to Waugh and the two lunched together. (3) Waugh perhaps means MI6 when he refers to the Foreign Service. This makes sense as his uncle, Alec Waugh the author, had worked for MI6. Another relative Auberon Herbert had […]
[…] US Supreme Court ruling (May 2000) protects US ISPs against libellous content, and treats then as carriers, on the same basis as telephone companies. Shayler, Gadaffi plot MI6 CX document on the Gadaffi Plot http://cryptome.org/qadahfi-plot.htm The release of this sensitive document onto the internet in Feb 2000 set off a search for those responsible, […]
[…] were fewer spook-wise journalists at that time; but mainly because there was no corroborative evidence for the fascinating allegations contained in it – notably the request by MI6 that Aspin kill the MI6 agent/bank-robber Kenneth Littlejohn. In the book Aspin’s MI6 handler was codenamed ‘Homer’. Surprise, surprise, an MI6 controller, Roger Hamer, codenamed Homer, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the Secret Service. The scuffles over revelations concerning Kincora started with the writing of a book by Rupert Allason, pen name Nigel West, son of a leading MI6 officer. The original fight was about whether the KGB had deeply penetrated every aspect of British Intelligence. Now a lot of dirty linen is being washed […]
[…] Littlejohn episode in 1973. Although Bloch and Fitzgerald (in their British Intelligence and Covert Action) give a more exhaustive account of the affair, their description of the MI6 informer inside the C3 subversion branch of the Garda as “Sergeant Patrick Crinnion” belittles his significance as an MI6 source. Kelly records that Crinnion was in […]
[…] views of senior British intelligence figures in a ‘pre-emptive strike against Tony Blair ahead of the publication of the Hutton report’ (2) The Herald said this of MI6: ‘The key points it wants on the record are: Many had been openly sceptical about the presence of WMD in Iraq for years. The intelligence community […]
[…] this account of MI5’s adjustment to the post Cold War world is one of the best books on the UK’s intelligence services, up there with Stephen Dorril’s MI6 book, Paul Lashmar and James Oliver’s book on IRD and Richard Aldrich’s The Hidden Hand. Rereading it, I was struck by the following. Although we now […]
[…] civilians increased from 87 in 1974, to 96 in 1975, to a peak of 110 in 1976.(28) The truce with the IRA had been secretly negotiated by MI6 in the aftermath of the Birmingham pub bombings. Ambush has scant details of this, although it confirms that the Army were ‘furious’ with the secret talks […]
