[…] and his supporters. A friend of the Asquiths (Maud Allen) was appearing, as a dancer, in a production of Wilde’s Salome. Pemberton-Billing said she was a German agent corrupting British morals and sapping the nation’s ability to see the war through to a grim conclusion. Allen was an easy target, she had once modelled […]
[…] than increased surveillance and trans-national co-operation once the pass has already been sold on free movement of peoples, goods, services and pathogens. The security forces’ role as agent of state formation and of socio-political control needs to be taken much more seriously in this context the terrorism that fuels acceptance of surveillance and […]
[…] it in an issue that for the first time advertised copies of Qadhafi’s Green Book. That should be enough to have Mr. Roads register as a Libyan agent, even though in other instances Nexus has, for instance, reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] a member of a Roman Catholic sect, a retired rent boy and someone who was later splashed across the front page of The Observer as an SIS agent. We gave a break to a minicab driver who nonetheless carried on sending us abusive faxes for years. There was a troublesome former Private Eye man […]
[…] minutes from where we’re sitting now’ (Marble Arch). In another interview, (28) he tells us that ‘the person in charge of the attack was a ‘former MI5 agent who has left the service to run a private detection agency.’ Murray has sent key names to the West Mercia force, but to no avail. (29) […]
[…] far right The first was the tale of Andy Carmichael who described in the Sunday Times (27 July 1997) his ‘five years as a fully salaried MI5 agent’ inside the National Front (NF). According to Carmichael, the National Front, in the guise of National Democrats, had planned to disrupt the Referendum Party’s General Election […]
[…] was linked to anti-Communist Ferenc Nagy, once head of the provisional government of Hungary. (He was forced to resign in 1947.) “Another was Louis Bloomfield, an American agent who now plays the role of a businessman from Canada (who) established secret ties in Rome with Deputies of the Christian Democrats and neo-Fascist parties.” This […]
