[PDF file]: […] with spying on their own government at the request of the US and privately told Wilson – hence his actions and concern at the possibility of the intelligence services machinating to remove him from office. Basically, Harold was right, and (presumably with Heath) he remains the only UK prime minister spied on by his […]
[PDF file]: […] million blank ballot papers.2 This led almost inevitably to a rash of public 1 This may be a new name for the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit. About which see . The text of a request to the Met to explain the relationship between the two organisations is at 2 scepticism (given […]
[PDF file]: […] that Hess was lured into his flight by British agents. This dates to the 1956 publication of the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg chief of the Sicherheitsdienst political intelligence for the SS. His memoirs were written after his conviction by a US military court at Nuremberg for conspiracy to murder Soviet prisoners of war. Schellenberg […]
[PDF file]: […] affairs, it is a bewildering collection of semipermanent or temporarily assembled action committee and networks the respond pretty much ad hoc to specific troubles and to flash intelligence inputs from various parts of the world, sometimes in ways that duplicate the activities of regular American missions, sometimes in ways that undermine those activities, and […]
[PDF file]: […] the British state clung to the pretensions of world power status, with all that entailed by way of overseas capital investment and expenditure on diplomatic, military and intelligence activities. The ‘bias’ in favour of the overseas lobby detected by Strange wasn’t so much hidden as so taken for granted as to be invisible. In […]
[PDF file]: […] sure that Wallace had been unjustly treated was that I had talked to my friend, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, Tony Cavendish, another senior member of the Intelligence Community was equally uncomfortable, as was Field Marshal Sir John Stanier. I knew them well, and wrote both their obituaries for the Independent. I heard you […]
[PDF file]: […] at Ditchley Park, in November 2009, under the auspices of The Institute of Government. A selection of academics, civil servants, politicians and the chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee were invited to attend. Following this event O’Donnell drafted ‘A Compendium of the Laws, Conventions and Constitutional Underpinning of the UK System of Government’. Apparently […]
[PDF file]: […] the same time as Starmer was trotting out his five ‘mission statements’ in February, I was engaged in a discussion with a friend about the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, ChatGPT. ChatGPT goes far beyond the now familiar ‘virtual assistants’ and chatbots one finds on many corporate websites, which rarely if ever answer your […]
