[PDF file]: […] regard to the Soviet Union). But by whom, and why, was this required? And why choose Loftus? Couldn’t Major Foley or Lt. Malone, both of whom were MI6 officers, have done just as much? A clue as to Pierse Loftus’s political alignment can be found in Hansard. He showed significant interest in the cases […]
[PDF file]: […] book there are two comments about Cockburn. At a British Journalism Awards ceremony in 2015 someone said that ‘the Government should consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick Cockburn instead’. The second is a quote from one of Sydney Blumenthal’s e-mails to Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State, that […]
[…] children wept bitter tears on camera and no-one mentioned UK military aid to radical Islamists fighting Gaddafi. There are no references in the official report to SIS, MI6 or the Secret Intelligence Service.59 On the other hand, Nick Must noted that the report contains 76 references to ‘MI5’ and 213 to ‘Security Service’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll’ served as a distraction from political struggle and party discipline. To flesh out the theory, extra villains have been thrown in: Satanists, MI6, shrinks of the Tavistock Institute, the Grateful Dead, and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (whose Marxist musicologist, Theodor Adorno, is said to have secretly tutored […]
[PDF file]: […] Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer about Holden’s last telexes. Later, McCormick told him some telexes relating to Holden were missing. ‘Christ! Is there a spy in the department?’ the operator […]
[PDF file]: […] week-long sequence of events starting in late October. One, British Airways chairman Martin Broughton complains about the UK ‘kowtowing’ to the United States on airport security.1 Two, MI6 chief Sir John Sawers gives a lecture saying why his service should be excluded from general government cuts.2 Three, we have an international terror scare, with […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] file. 19 19 undisclosed allegations. It is also significant that Field Marshal Sir John Stanier and Sir Maurice Oldfield, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6), contacted Labour MP, Tam Dalyell, expressing their view that I had been badly treated by the MoD.20 At my disciplinary hearing at the MoD in 1975, […]
[PDF file]: […] it more carefully, I was struck by the omission from this account of the role played by Oleg Penkovsky, the GRU colonel who was providing SIS ( MI6) – and thus the Americans – with detailed information on Soviet nuclear weaponry. Crucially, Penkovsky told SIS how few missiles the Soviets actually had and that […]
[PDF file]: […] 337). Richard J Aldrich and Rory Cormac, The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown from Victoria to Diana (London: Atlantic Books, 2021), p. 530 7 Stephen Dorrill, MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (London: Fourth Estate, 2001) p. 685 8 6 In the event, Stirling does seem to have taken steps to distance himself […]
[…] Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer about Holden’s last telexes. Later, McCormick told him some telexes relating to Holden were missing. ‘Christ! Is there a spy in the department?’ the operator […]
