[…] Unit (PIU) and Forward Strategy Unit.(5) The PIU reviewed the UK’s energy policy at a 4 July 2001 seminar: Mulgan introduces, hands over to Chair, Kevin Tebbit (MOD). Then there are presentations by Sian Davies (the Henley Centre, which has several Demos members), Bob Tyrrell (Demos) and Ged Davis (Shell, a Demos funder) and […]
[…] Educated at Oxford, Mills was a young civil servant at what became the Ministry of Defence and part of the ‘fast-track’ for promotion intake. He left the MOD after only a few years, taking the bar examination and becoming a barrister. Though not yet a qualified lawyer, during his brief career at the MOD, […]
[…] part of the on-going joint Ministry of Defence/MI5 effort to contain and discredit Fred Holroyd’s account of the SAS undercover units in Northern Ireland. In 1988 the MOD fed a barrow-load of disinformation to a trio of Sunday Times journalists, led by James Adams, about a unit called 14th Intelligence. Formed in the early […]
[…] March 7 Livingstone also asked “in what capacity Mr Colin Wallace served in the Ulster Defence Regiment whilst a Senior Information Officer in Northern Ireland?”Roger Freeman, junior MOD Minister replied: “Mr Wallace served as a Part Time 2nd Lieutenant in 1(Co. Antrim) UDR.” Which was the wrong answer. An error? An attempt to disinform? […]
[…] they got there. And when some of the soldier subjects got ill, began complaining and trying to find out what had been done to them, the traditional MOD cover-up was put into place. Another shoddy story in a long line of shoddy MOD stories. This is the first study of its kind; and, given […]
[…] FO 1949 Economic relations dept. FO; Cyprus – part of the Albanian operation 1951 Head of Middle East desk, Cairo. BREO Cyprus. Operations against Iran 1953 attached MOD. Specialised in ‘economic and defence intelligence’ 1956 Operation Struggle against Syria. Middle East Director of Production. Assassination attempts against Nasser. Deputy Chief 1960 Under-Sec. 1961 Retired. […]
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been […]
Wensley Clarkson Blake Publishing, London 1998, £16.99 Remember Jonathan Moyle, the ex-RAF officer, editor of Defence Helicopter World, who was found dead, hanging in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Chile in 1990? This is about him – and about his death. It is done in the most irritating manner possible, written as a […]
[…] around the country in a Chinook helicopter. Aislinn Simpson, ‘William flies into a storm for landing at Kate’s…’, The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2008; Andy McSmith, ‘ MoD admits it was naive to allow Prince William’s joyrides in helicopters’, The Independent, 24 April 2008. The official website contains not only transcripts of each day’s […]
[…] Department to be purely administrative in function and would only have thought about any possible political repercussions if Legg had held a similar position at, say, the MOD or the Foreign Office. After fully investigating me, an investigation of which I was unaware at the time, the Security Service, with a little help from […]
