[…] appeared and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] with the Shah. In Teheran, Musadegh was also in constant contact with the Americans about any developments. Finally the parties reached an agreement. On a yacht the MI6 station chief told me… Later the MI6 station chief in Iran told me that at the beginning the Shah did not agree to return to Teheran, […]
[…] ‘led by Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell, head of homeland security David Omand, Downing Street foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, and representatives of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ’.(7) The process of compiling the first dossier: ‘……resulted in fairly serious rows between Campbell, Omand and Stephen Lander, then head of M15. The essence […]
[…] birth deformities caused by depleted uranium leaking into the atmosphere. It is tragic evidence that Saddam Hussein is stockpiling the material to make his own nuclear weapons. MI6 intelligence agents estimate 316 tons of radioactive dust seeped from a factory in Al Hillah, 100 miles south of Baghdad, 12 months ago.’ When depleted uranium […]
[…] (Operation Gold) 1956 F.O. 1957 1st Sec.Bonn 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut – Chief of Station 1968 1st Sec. F.C.O. 1972 Retired (wrote official – secret – history of MI6) MCNAUGHT, Eustace Arthur Born 18/2/22 1942-47 H.M.forces 1948 Control Commission, Germany 1953 F.O. 1956 2nd Sec. Tripoli 1959 F.O. 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut 1967 F.O. 1968 […]
Tom Bower, Heinemann, London This is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White’s memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, […]
