[…] the Secret Service. The scuffles over revelations concerning Kincora started with the writing of a book by Rupert Allason, pen name Nigel West, son of a leading MI6 officer. The original fight was about whether the KGB had deeply penetrated every aspect of British Intelligence. Now a lot of dirty linen is being washed […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Littlejohn episode in 1973. Although Bloch and Fitzgerald (in their British Intelligence and Covert Action) give a more exhaustive account of the affair, their description of the MI6 informer inside the C3 subversion branch of the Garda as “Sergeant Patrick Crinnion” belittles his significance as an MI6 source. Kelly records that Crinnion was in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] I and Sir Teddy Taylor (a British Member of Parliament) are trying to force the British government to investigate two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. xii, xiii) But on p. xii of the preface he tells us he ‘worked with’ the CIA, MI6 and IRD; on p. 20 he tells that briefings he had been getting from an MI6 officer secured for him the job as editor of the […]
[…] it. From John Hope In Lobster 39 David Turner claims to have ‘solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight’, asserting that Knight was ‘working for MI6 from 1924-25 to 1931’ via a private intelligence agency used by MI6 to furnish information on communists in Britain. Alas, the matter is more complex and […]
[…] 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, […]
