[PDF file]: […] for reliable anti-Soviet bodies during the Cold War and the desire on the part of survivors of the war to ensure that it never happened again. Robin Ramsay 3 The best account previously was that of Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, ‘How MI6 pushed Britain to join Europe’, Sunday Telegraph, 27 April 1997 at .
[PDF file]: […] lobby encouraged war with Japan with increasingly impossible diplomatic demands on Japan and then by suppressing intelligence about the pending attack on Pearl Harbour.5 It then allowed MI6 to assemble a 1000 strong force – British Security Co-ordination – in Washington and worked with it in 1940/41 in one the biggest covert operations ever […]
[PDF file]: […] to interest Western governments in this. Patrick Karegeya actually visited London (it was on this occasion that Wrong first met him) and handed ‘the recordings over to MI6, which circulated them around the Foreign Office and Department for International Development’. In the USA, the recordings were handed over to the FBI. As she points […]
[PDF file]: […] the Duke of Edinburgh) in a fishing boat off the coast of the Irish Republic and 18 British army soldiers at Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] the split is twice as much research into a field that is mostly ignored by the mainstream press. Both are worth investigating for their research on MI5, MI6 and other covert state activities, research that is largely unavailable elsewhere. While Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, […]
[PDF file]: […] fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, the special forces and the Security Commission. Considering that ‘As the exemption under section 23(5) is absolute; it is not necessary to consider the public […]
[PDF file]: […] specialist apps such as speech recognition which can “spot” and translate particular voices from hours’ worth of intercept recordings. The deal will also allow GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 to conduct faster searches on each other’s databases.2 In the same report: Ciaran Martin, who stepped down as head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre […]
[PDF file]: […] uncovered you unload upon him all the blame for every unsolved 28 See West (see note 23) p. 850. ‘Was Kim Philby offered escape to Moscow by MI6 agent?’, Daily Mail 1 March 2014 or . 29 30 See note 29. ‘In from the cold: a new book reveals the inner world of British […]
[PDF file]: […] claimed that meetings between Samuel Hoare, Lord Halifax and Rudolf Hess took place in Spain and Portugal between February and April 1941.24 On Stewart Menzies, Chief of MI6, Channon notes (5 January 1942): ‘Stewart Menzies is an old acquaintance and greeted me warmly I found Stewart sympathetic and sensible He is balanced and Conservative […]
[PDF file]: […] damaging the war effort in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented step, he arranged for Murdoch and Brooks ‘to be given an off-the-record briefing by the then head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett….. Sir John warned them that the Taliban were using Sun stories as propaganda and that they were damaging British military morale’. Brooks apparently […]
