[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]: […] Goleniewski actually meant any of this is unclear. Coogan writes that Goleniewski ‘single-handedly destroyed Polish intelligence, exposed Soviet control over West Germany’s spy service and saved Britain’s MI6 spy agency from certain catastrophe.’ (p. 5) And perhaps Goleniewski was the last defector of any importance. But with this much hindsight it is clear none […]
[PDF file]: […] invasion of Lebanon killed her lover. The Sunday Times and two other Fleet Street newspapers turned down the story of a transgender Mossad spy who had double-crossed MI6. See ‘Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023’ in this issue at or . 1 2 Script by James Warner Bellah and Lewis Goldbeck for the 1962 John Ford […]
[…] 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]: […] days of Elizabeth I and Francis 17 18 Walsingham. This explains the continual presence of the present Queen in the background of many narratives concerning MI5 and MI6. It’s more than simply the ultimate loyalty of the two services to the head of state rather than to her government, it’s a matter of living […]
[PDF file]: […] the integrity of your justiciary because the appeal papers prove Iran was involved….. I knew this information back then so you can rest assured both MI5 and MI6 knew.’ 6 Don’t you just love Baer’s notion that freeing al-Megrahi was about ‘protecting the integrity of judiciary’? As if it had any left!7 Subservience produces […]
[PDF file]: […] 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.102 On the other hand, Nick Must noted that the report contains 76 references to ‘MI5’ and 213 to ‘Security Service’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] the Middle East was reflected in the contribution of Lady Manningham-Buller, the former MI5 deputy chief. She told the Lords that when she and the head of MI6 met the Bush team in Washington shortly after 9/11, ‘the decision was about al-Qaeda, its base in Afghanistan and its close relationship with the Taliban. I […]
[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 .
