Mr Tony was a spook? Issue 7 of Larry O’Hara’s Note from the Borderland () includes a section from the Anne Machon and David Shayler book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited […]
NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the […]
[…] constant surveillance as part of their remit to ‘protect the Royal Family from scandal that might bring it and Britain into disrepute’.()According to former MI5 officer David Shayler, MI6 wanted to curtail Diana’s liaison with the Al Fayed family. ‘I think that MI6 paid to have Diana and Dodi involved in an accident using […]
[…] trying to overthrow Colonel Gaddafy’s regime. That name might ring a bell because this is the group, an al-Qaeda affiliate we are told, which, according to David Shayler, was paid by MI6 to try to assassinate Colonel Gaddafy. But this was back in the days when Gaddafy was ‘the mad dictator’, some time funder […]
[…] website address is: http://www.sp.nl/spectre/ Notes from the Borderland Issue 2 of Larry O’Hara’s magazine appeared in late October. It includes: long essays by O’Hara on MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance […]
[…] has chosen to look into would come a long way down the list of topics chosen by readers of this journal. ISC has not spoken to David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, for example; nor Tony Holland, Richard Symonds and Michael Smith (who writes is this issue), who have recently begun working together;(1) nor John […]
[…] but was largely unaware that he had been marked down as a dangerous enemy of the centralised British political system. According to the former MI5 officer David Shayler, the intelligence services file on Owen Oyston was re-examined in 1992 by the head of MI5, when it looked as if Neil Kinnock’s revived Labour party […]
[…] been stuffed with loyalist place men and women. The committee has never taken up the wide range of issues raised by former intelligence operatives such as David Shayler and Richard Tomlinson, seemingly on the basis that it does not want to encourage whistleblowers, when it is precisely these whistle-blowers who have done the most […]
[…] accounts of their work against British ‘subversives’ in the 1970s and 80s. There was a rich irony about the BBC broadcasting the first two episodes while David Shayler was on trial. A group of Special Branch officers – assisted by the BBC – broke the Official Secrets Act in a big way on television […]
[…] I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former MI5 officers David Shayler and Annie Machon. 21 In the best example yet of a staff-spook who has no idea how other societies work, she then gave an explanation of […]
