[…] 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. […]
[…] mistake; indeed, rumour now has it that while MI5 and Special Branch were stuffing Wallace into prison, the Ministry of Defence were trying to prevent it happening. MOD, by implication, knew better. Well, so far, the mud hasn’t been flung at MOD. In all accounts so far – ie the Wright-derived accounts – there […]
[…] and details of the intelligence operation, Clockwork Orange.’ That Wallace was a ‘Walter Mitty’ figure was one of the lines put out by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) during Wallace’s trial in 1981 for murder. A piece in Private Eye 10 June 1987, presumably by Paul Foot, said, ‘Panorama reporter John Ware argued strongly […]
[…] SERVICE 1935 SECRETARIES OFFICE HM CUSTOMS AND EXCISE 1940 EMPLOYED IN ‘SPECIAL DUTIES’ 1945 ASSIST SEC CABINET OFFICE 1948 BOARD OF TRADE 1951 ASSIST UNDER-SEC OF STATE MOD 1967 RETIRED MOD ON THE ‘INTELLIGENCE SIDE’ RESPONSIBLE FOR ‘COVER PLANS’ DRINKALL, JOHN KENNETH CMG (1977) B 1.1.22 BRASENOSE COLL OXFORD IRD 1942 INDIAN ARMY 1947 […]
Parapolitics: “Generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision-making but by indirection, collusion and deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: “A … Read more
[…] officials of the Atlantic Council, which has the astonishing ‘charitable purpose’ of building support for NATO. It incorporates Peace Through NATO, the group central to Michael Heseltine’s MoD campaign against CND in the early 1980s. It receives over £100,000 a year from the Foreign Office, as well as payments from the Dulverton Trust.(18) TUCETU […]
[…] involvement of the British machine tools industry in the Iraqi production of munitions. It even referred to ‘Churchill Matrix’ (sic). The Interdepartmental Committee set up with FO, MoD and DTI representatives to review export license applications and test them against the Howe Guidelines, would in Scott’s view, have refused licenses or the export of […]
[…] a matter of state security so why bother to tell a Liberal Democrat MP who was never going to be in charge of the Ministry; or the MoD was as much in the dark as the rest of us. But we should also look critically at claims on sources. By September we have references […]
[…] Freedom (CPF); John Selwyn Gummer, Party Chairman, and the man responsible for the anti-unilateralist campaign in the Churches; Peter Blaker, Minister of State for Defence; Ray Whitney, MOD spokesman and formerly of the Cold War propaganda unit IRD (and also of the Institute for European and Strategic Studies (IESS) and the Council for Arms […]
[…] my overcoat, in their front room, with them, Fred and his wife, Marie-Claire. At one point I said something like this: ‘So on one side there’s the MOD, MI5 and all their media assets, and on the other there’s us, with hardly a penny between us.’ Everybody laughed. We laughed a lot in those […]
