[…] for giving Tony Blair to the world. You have really done a wonderful thing….’ ( great applause ) From the stage Blair then thanked the Labour Party agent in Sedgefield, his constituency: ‘….for the time you took to talk to me and the help you gave me when we I met you all those […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2) This may be marginalia but it is interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner […]
In the collection, Contemporary British History 1931-61, reviewed in this issue, there is an essay by Richard Aldrich of Salford University, one of the small but growing numbers of British academics trying to incorporate the activities of the intelligence and security services into post-war British history. In his essay on the Special Operations Executive (SOE) … Read more
This is the text of a paper read by Jonathan Bloch at a meeting of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade in London in June 1985. The purpose of this paper is to examine selected aspects of British involvement in the training of foreign police personnel both here and abroad. Not much research has been … Read more
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] liaison with the CIA and the French SDECE Lt. Col Guiseppi Belmont, and Michael Ledeen, American journalist involved in propounding the ‘Bulgarian connection’ and former SISMI liaison agent with the CIA. ‘Super S’ is accused by Italian Justice of creating the ‘Billygate’ scandal surrounding President Jimmy Carter’s brother. If SISMI were behind the ‘Bulgarian […]
