[…] on Astra notepaper – showing that a trio of British special forces were in Brussels the day before the Bull murder, accompanied by Astra director and SIS agent, Stephan Kock.(9) It was Kock who, having removed James as chair of Astra, began using it to do arms deals with the Iraqis – which had […]
[…] own judgement before being inflected with ‘spin’. The reliability and accountability of information is going to be very different if it is from an accredited British intelligence agent, a Home Office civil servant, the Met, the Sussex Police Authority, someone from Number Ten (all theoretically ultimately answerable to the Commons at some stage) or […]
[…] Cause-funded Trade Union Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan […]
[…] at the time of writing Trimble’s long term survival looks very much in doubt. Interestingly, the diehards’ explanation of Trimble’s treachery is that he is an M15 agent! One last point of interest: McDonald reveals the identities of a key group of advisers that Trimble has gathered around him. Ruth Dudley Edwards, the historian […]
[…] the document were arguing that the Foreign Office should back the Canaris-German resistance-Vatican proposal. This report had to cross the desk of Kim Philby a Soviet agent before it could be officially circulated to Ministers. Philby duly rejected the document, thus blocking any formal discussion of a peace deal that would be […]
Responsibilities, old boy The Big Breach Richard Tomlinson Cutting Edge, Edinburgh, 2000, £9.99 I found it hard to ‘see’ this because so much of its contents have been published in the media. There have been some changes – names altered – since the newspaper versions; and I am told that the original hardback version … Read more
[…] be depressed that senior police personnel could be so far off the pace? How should we react to the reported recent death of Force Research Unit (FRU) agent Brian Nelson in the midst of the reaction to the publication of the summary of the Stevens Report? (1) Was this tidying-up by a murderous state? […]
[…] links the UVF specifically to the murder of 23 year-old Sharon McKenna, in 1993 and implicates Mark Haddock, a UVF Commander who was also a Special Branch agent, in this killing. Haddock is currently on remand for charges arising from paramilitary activity and his unit is believed to have killed around a dozen people […]
[…] the American Federation of Labor (AFL) representative in Europe for many years following the Second World War, and was, in the words of Philip Agee, ‘principal CIA agent for control of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’.(23) They met the leaders of Force Ouvrière, again in February, to discuss mutual problems, including the […]
[…] the celebrities.'(53) Richard Tomlinson believed that he was an MI6 informer paid to spy on Diana and Dodi. Other sources claim that Paul was also a Mossad agent and an informant for the French foreign intelligence service. As Head of Security at the Ritz, Paul would have been ideally placed to observe and monitor […]
