[…] paranoid? Not as much as they are. According to BOSS agent, Robin Ramsay (In an interview cut from a 1981 Panorama programme, but printed verbatim elsewhere), British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the captain or vice-captain, and if […]
Gecas and Special Branch A wonderful example of the reach and power of intelligence connections was provided in January. Why did the British state refuse to extradite Anton Gecas, the WW2 Lithuanian war criminal, to the Soviet Union in 1976? Turns out not only had Gecas worked for SIS at the end of WW2, […]
[…] The former MI6 officer, Richard Tomlinson, commenting on the size of Henri Paul’s bank account, is convinced that he must have been in the employ of British intelligence. ‘French intelligence would never pay him that sort of an amount of money.'(20) He also claimed that he had seen ‘documents and evidence’ proving that Henri […]
[…] you think, ‘Oh New Zealand seems a long way away, so why take an interest?’ it should be noted that N.Z. is a member of the American-dominated intelligence and surveillance network of which Britain is another junior member, and what goes on down under can inform us about developments in this benighted isle. New […]
[…] Harper Poulson, Sir John Orr and Roger Fortune. However Headway was in a decline which the change of ownership did not reverse. (13) The Focus and Churchill’s intelligence network The 1930s came to be called the ‘wilderness years’ for Churchill because during that period he failed to be given any position of political authority. […]
[…] on another story and a cordial relationship had blossomed. For convenience sake, I’ll call him X. He was a very experienced and proficient investigator of military and intelligence stories in addition to being a recognised editor. Because of this, the excellence of his military and intelligence sources, I decided to ask X to collaborate […]
[…] claims contained in this talk are to be found. Dirty tricks and covert operations In the official theory of British politics the state in general and the intelligence services in particular have no role. This is what I think of as the Disney version of politics; and this is the one that is still […]
[…] boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, if […]
[…] when it comes to Irish questions? Perhaps one of our readers working for those dailies would care to explain. CIA in Northern Ireland The Irish Republic’s Military Intelligence (G.2) discovered that the CIA were behind a plot to spy on loyalist paramilitary groups. (Sunday News 27th November 1983) Lyn Macrey, who does welfare work […]
[…] be proper or unbiased, he promptly back-tracked, adding ‘that casts a totally different light on the matter’. Although Weaver’s ultimate Roswell Report mentioned that the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), which had been the main recipient body for the analyses and investigation of UFO reports for the USAF’s public investigation efforts, no longer existed, […]
