[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 […]
[…] 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’ – […]
[…] The McGrath story involves much detail about the murky politics and paramilitary activity of Protestant fringe groups during the conflict with the IRA. Having had contact with MI6 in the sixties, McGrath was recruited by MI5 – precisely when, or for what, is unclear – providing him with cover for his sexual activities. 1 […]
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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Mirror, if he thought that Bonnett could possibly have been inserted into Belfast in the crisis of 1972 at the request or even command of MI5 or MI6. News gathering in Ireland was traditionally handled from the Manchester offices of the nationals. I put it to Leo that a reporter sometimes needs trade in […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] the sabotaging of ships carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine,. Limpet mines were attached to vessels in Italian ports, disabling five of them and showing, as far as MI6 were concerned, ‘how clandestine operations could achieve results at relatively little cost’. (p. 216) After this, he was involved One reason for this interest in Smiley’s […]
[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 .
