[…] make this abundantly clear. MI5’s First World War offshoot PMS2 is given only a cursory mention by Curry. There is no reference to its employment of the agent provocateur William Rickard, who in 1917 framed a family of socialists (the Wheeldons) on trumped-up charges of plotting to assassinate Lloyd George. The Zinoviev Letter is […]
[…] affected by electromagnetic means. Does RHIC-EDOM exist? The term first appeared in a strange 1969 book, Were We Controlled? written by one Lincoln Lawrence, a former FBI agent turned journalist. (36) A careful comparison of Lawrence’s work with the MKULTRA files declassified ten years later indicates a strong possibility that the writer did indeed […]
[…] who are MPs) by removing the embargo on CP membership for members of the Labour Party.” Wilson had as a “close confidant” Wilf Owens MP, a Czech agent. Wilson “shielded John Stonehouse” Wilson ignored MI5 advice on what to do about Soviet agents in Britain. Another recurring theme is the alleged link between Labour […]
[…] profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about salmon […]
[…] them. As part of that programme, evaluation is carried out of the potential hazard from chemicals that may be utilised by an aggressor as a chemical warfare agent. An appreciation of the effects of LSD on man and the knowledge that LSD could be synthesised led to research in the 1960s into whether LSD […]
Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of … Read more
[…] STOCKHOLM 1945 CONTROLLER NORTHERN AREA 1955 1ST SEC (VISA) COPENHAGEN 1956 JEDDAH 1958 FO 1961 RETIRED CARR, JOHN DICKSON WELL KNOWN THRILLER WRITER CP WORKER – MI5 AGENT 1930-40’s CARREL, IAN MI5 (W) SECURITY LIAISON OFFICER HONG KONG HEAD OF REGISTRY MID 60’s. K7 COUNTERING SOVIET PENETRATION. RETIRED LATE 70’s CARTER, PETER ANTHONY CMG […]
[…] to Wallace. (The journalist was Robert Fisk.) But Pencourt didn’t pursue the ‘press officer in Northern Ireland’. Up popped the late Peter Bessel, Liberal MP and CIA agent, to steer them towards Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott instead. The second significant snippet was the news that Jonathan Aitken had been hand-carrying messages from James […]
[…] an important and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza’s father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know […]
[…] criminals were printed at the Franciscan printing press in Rome. Both the US Counter Intelligence Corps CIC) and Britain’s military intelligence knew what was happening. Indeed, CIC agent Robert Mudd had a spy within Dragonovic’s organisation. The CIC arranged a burglary of Dragonovic’s office and photographed his records. Mudd concluded that “all this activity […]
