[…] a 1991-formed company whose sole shareholders are a Dr Andrew Clifford and his wife. Dr Clifford is an engineer and metallurgist and his principal employer is the MOD. In issue 286, February 1992, George Wingfield, author of the research in the paragraph above, adds: he cannot connect ‘MBF Consultancy’ with ‘MBF Services’; that the […]
[…] years in the Ministry of Defence when Robertson became New Labour Defence Secretary in 1997, she is now its director of general security and safety. Her former MoD colleague, Jonathan Day, moved with Robertson to NATO HQ in Brussels to become director of his private office. He was signed up to the BAP in […]
[…] 24 January 1989). Sir Christopher Chancellor: “Mr Reuter’, died 9 September 1989. (Independent 11 September 1989) Major-General Dick Lloyd: secretary of the Defence Intelligence Staff in the MOD and then deputy head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Unit. (Daily Telegraph 19 April 1991) George Bolsover: known as “Mr Russia’, died 15 April 1990. […]
[…] British-Irish Rights Watch, (23) partly over allegations that phone calls between Britain and Ireland, including legally privileged material confidential to the complainants, were routinely intercepted by an MoD installation at Capenhurst, Cheshire, and later by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that the RIP act fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual […]
[…] of 2001. It includes broad-ranging anti-terrorism measures, including the power to require comms service providers to retain comms data (eg email addresses); extended police powers, also for MOD, nuclear and transport police; allowing govt. agencies to share information and, most contentiously, powers to detain asylum seekers suspected of terrorist acts. These powers required the […]
[…] be old news, but here goes. Reading Wensley Clarkson’s book The Valkyrie Operation (1998) recently, I was struck by his remark that: ‘Between 1970 and 1990 the MoD recruited dozens of personnel after they had been discovered at Britain’s most highly acclaimed strategic studies centres, Oxbridge, Lancaster and Aberystwyth.’ (p.19). I don’t know how […]
[…] FCO can produce specialists in the area. Secondly the ‘stans’, by which I mean principally Pakistan, used to come under MI5 (sometimes army officers seconded from the MOD) and the colonial office, which is again why SIS neglected things. Afghanistan was of interest because of India/Iran/Soviet Union and all those SIS specialists certainly had […]
[…] for the SAS unit at Castledillon in the mid 70’s before the SAS were officially sent to Ireland. In fact, contacts of Wallace and Holroyd’s in the MOD have confirmed that 14th Intelligence was created in the early 1980s. The evidence suggests that what has become known as the shoot-to-kill policy – a euphemism […]
[…] The Sunday Times was a serious, respectable newspaper until Andrew Neil became its editor in the mid-1980s and turned it into a mouthpiece for MI5 and the MOD to run their rubbish through. The Sunday Telegraph shows all the signs of going down the same dangerous path. But then I’m an old-fashioned kind of […]
[…] and the Worms Bank through their common membership in Frank Buchman’s Moral Rearmament movement. . .'(14) (How would he know what is in MI6 files in the MOD?) A little further on he mentions, without explanation or sourcing, ‘the ill-conceived Royalist/Schellenberg/I.G. Farben coup d’etat in which Himmler would take over and permanently restore the […]
