[…] news of his demise would appear first in the morning edition of The Times and not in some ‘lesser publication’ later in the day.(1) And it wasn’t MI6. This assumes that, as former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove would have us believe, Secret Intelligence Service service personnel follow the rules. A less trusting Michael […]
How MI6 and the CIA were involved in the death of Princess Diana Jon King and John Beveridge New York: SPI Books, 2002, £18.95 In the five years since the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, interest in Diana herself may have waned, (1) but the circumstances surrounding […]
[…] be said again. The spooks aren’t regulated. Because they resist regulation we are (rightly) suspicious of them. But what isn’t in this Lobster is the lists of MI6 officers published on the Cryptome website. Twenty years ago such a list, had it come my way, would have been a major item. These days it […]
[…] us…. Tatler (June 1984) Robert Harris reports on the spy recruitment procedures. There was some talk of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act for naming MI5 and MI6 premises. They are: MI5 recruitment (positive vetting) – 140 Gower St., London WC1 and 14-17 Great Marlborough St., London WC1 MI6 recruitment – 3 Carlton Gardens, […]
[…] MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. MI6 gets involved in trying to use Muslim fundamentalists to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi; and nothing happens; nothing, that is, other than then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook standing […]
[…] of surprise Last, but by no means least: nobble the opposition. No messy fiddling with the votes – go straight to the voters themselves. Hats off to MI6, who proved themselves the masters of this tactic in 1924, when the UK’s first-ever Labour government was seeking to be returned to power. With the Russian […]
[…] it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service (MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert Action last year was considered provocative in this respect. The book contains an […]
[…] acquitted and died in 1962 as a result of an air accident in South-East Asia. Faulks, in reporting this tale, suggested that Bodington may have been an MI6 agent before the war (he had been a journalist) and that the connection between him and Dericourt involved more than friendship. Curiously, Faulks left it there. […]
[…] turn to cracking crime?’ by David Rose in the Observer, 18 September 1994. Rose concluded; ‘We will need an agency – possibly a subordinate, domestic wing of MI6 – to deal with foreign spies and terrorists. Whether it will take 2000 staff and 160 million is a very different matter.’ See also Rose’s piece, […]
[…] major British dope dealer who got famous, not for importing huge quantities of dope (15 tons of grass in one venture) but because he became embroiled with MI6. Having said that, almost nothing else is certain. High Times ends with Marks getting away with a series of stupendous perjuries in an English court: there […]
