[…] intelligence services in the context of civil liberties and their relationship with the public. For most of their existence the British Intelligence Services, namely MI5, GCHQ and MI6 were not governed by any statutory law. They were established by the use of the Royal Prerogative backed up, in the case of MI5, with an […]
[…] Maurice Oldfield. * * * Gradually the pieces are coming together, though it will turn out to be a very large jigsaw. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6) set up a Northern Irish section in the Conway Hotel at Dunmurray. Headed by Frank Howard Smith with Philip Woodhead as his desk man in London, […]
[…] policy (NCND). Exemption certificates authorising a blanket ban on access to personal data processed by the organisations were signed on behalf of the three intelligence agencies, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.(30) Subject access requests made to the agencies have met with a response referring to these certificates, and claiming exemption from the subject access and […]
[…] going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in anger, yet nothing changes. As […]
[…] dossier on UK Press Freedom, about British Intelligence Service whistleblowers and attempts by Blair’s administration to cover up accusations of British Govt sleaze and incompetence. Includes former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson’s allegations about MI6, contained in letters to his solicitor, John Wadham of Liberty, describing a 1992 proposal to assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic of […]
[…] him — to have been a regular informant to Washington.’ (4) According to David Leigh’s sources the MI5 officer Arthur Martin told friends before his tranfer to MI6 in November 1964, ‘I did hear that —— was a spy.’ An MI5 officer from K branch confirmed to Leigh that ‘We knew that —— was […]
[…] thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that Iraq had been developing chemical and biological warfare capacities. […]
[…] was noted that, as far as Europe was concerned, the efficiency of this service had diminished considerably. (4) The contacts in 1980 between George Bush and ex- MI6 and Circle member Nicholas Elliott are even more interesting now that Bush has made it to the top; but perhaps the most significant element in the […]
In 1978 I read a report of a speech on subversion by a Mr G. K. Young (‘GKY’) a former ‘deputy director’ of MI6. It said that he was a banker. I had been a student at LSE 1972-1975, my tutor was an expert on the Soviet Bloc and I had studied Soviet politics. […]
[…] the Catholics in the North in 1970 when there appeared to be a serious threat of pogroms against them. The gunrunning scheme was exposed – possibly by MI6 – and when the politicians involved got cold feet, the Irish state tried make Kelly the sacrificial lamb. He resisted and triumphed in court. This is […]
