[…] 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 […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] 1989 the then Secretary of State for Defence, Tom King, and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, misled Parliament by not only suppressing the conclusions of an internal MoD inquiry, but also by replacing that inquiry with a new one which had much more restricted terms of reference. For example, the Defence Secretary wrote to […]
[PDF file]: […] for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at . 4 3 used by Wallace to highlight McGrath’s homosexuality and his role in running a children’s home) and wrote […]
[PDF file]: […] 8 Foreign Office quoted in Curtis (see note 5) p. 41. security interests.’9 To the general public, NATO is promoted as a humanitarian intervener. As the UK MoD has said, the public only tolerates war when it perceives ‘moral legitimacy’. Libya has the largest known oil reserves in Africa. Nigeria has the second largest […]
[…] for a devastating and embarrassing intelligence dump which has prompted our closest allies to question whether the UK can be trusted. He has been stripped of his MOD role but amazingly has not been charged either at the MOD or in the Foreign Office to which he is responsible. Why did Whitehall fail to […]
