[…] and, to my knowledge, Wallace has never alleged this. “In an account he claims to have written in 1976 as evidence of his intimate involvement in the intelligence world, Wallace talks of an MI6 operative he knew. In fact that document reveals an event – the death of a policeman – that actually occurred […]
[…] which begins with the Leveller, the State Research collective and Time Out — basically got it right: Crozier was a spook, working for the British and American intelligence services. Crozier would deny that he worked for anybody: ‘at all times I remained independent, executing only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. […]
[…] (Penthouse June 1983) In a mass of fascinating stories of Hubbard Snr., is an account of him selling military secrets to the Soviets, and the Soviet bloc intelligence services sending agents into the Scientology org – precisely because the ideas of scientology appealed to people like the RV scientists who, in the course of […]
[…] she shows why there has been recent stalemate over the RUC. This armed police force was pivotal in much of the action and most of the floating intelligence in the past. Could the same people provide an equitable police force for all the people of Northern Ireland? To mix metaphors somewhat, the description she […]
[…] exaggerated his claims to have been a parachutist and the organiser of a display parachuting team run by the British Army. (And thus his other claims about intelligence operations in Northern Ireland should not be taken seriously…..) In 1990, in a piece called ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ in the Spectator (24 March […]
[…] it is clear that Sulzberger shared the paper’s intimate relations with the CIA.20 .Hayden B. Peake sent me a photocopy of the review of Splinter Factor from Intelligence and Espionage; an Analytical Bibliography by George Constantinides (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado). This includes ‘The story is quite unreliable… one of the worst books to appear […]
[…] 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the Irish Republic. These, in turn, are based on information from former Irish Republic Counter Intelligence personnel. But these, albeit at third hand, seem to be the main points. And if it isn’t very clear it’s because the Sunday News report is […]
[…] either conciliate or effectively repress the Zionists, the British were doomed. The lack of a viable political strategy showed itself on the ground in the lack of intelligence. Intelligence is the key to operational success in counterinsurgency and the British signally failed to penetrate the Zionist resistance. The scale of the failure is shown […]
[…] does not mention that Knight was a leading member of the British Fascists and seems to have colluded with them against the left while he was an intelligence officer. Professor Andrew notes that an MI5 agent, James McGuirk Hughes (whose name Andrew misspells), became the British Union of Fascists’ head of intelligence, presenting this […]
[…] perceptions, they are nowhere near as all-pervasive in the UK as they are in the US. Yes, there is a dutiful reflection of the orthodoxies of foreign, intelligence, business and armed services policy fed to us by their pliant press corps, but there are also divergences from the approved script, a matter of much […]
