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  A History of the British Intelligence Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The British Army had finally had to acknowledge that Intelligence staffs are essential parts of field armies and their component formations and units, as well as of the headquarter staff in London, in peacetime as well as in war.
In 1902 the "secret section," as it was sometimes called, handled the "control and disbursement of secret service funds" and the "arrangements with officers and others employed on special service." Secret agents were hired to obtain the sort of information overseas which Britain's military attachés were unable to collect.
While MO5's proposals for an upscaled secret service on the Continent in the event of a general war may have appeared stillborn to their authors in 1905, the events of the next half decade after 1909 would lead to the development of a wartime SIS that conformed to MO5's plans in almost every respect.
members.aol.com /FenianRam/britishintelligencecommunity.htm   (14053 words)

  
 MI6 Skiver McIvor (Retired): Intelligence Services News
Laws that allow British intelligence agents to bug and burgle are to be amended to permit bribery as well, as an unexpected consequence of the government's latest anti-corruption proposals.
After being appointed the service’s liaison officer with Washington with the responsibility of passing information to the FBI and CIA — a largely bureaucratic job, though one seen as vital for gaining senior postings — she quit after a year claiming she was “not a postbox”.
BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY: The former British secret agent, David Shayler, has asserted that his serving MI5 colleagues will be inclined to lie to investigators "as they know that telling the truth might embarrass or expose their bosses, from whom they have no legal protection or trade union representation".
mi6skivermcivor.blogspot.com /2005/11/intelligence-services-news.html   (17162 words)

  
 How secret services attacked British miners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Sources within the secret services provided information that the campaign against the NUM leaders was organised by the security services and they had tried to put money in an account linked with Scargill and then attempted to withdraw to make it look like corruption.
In Britain, there is a history of the secret services having been used against the left and the labour movement going back 200 years.
In the last two decades, the main targets of the secret services were the Soviet Union, the former socialist countries, the IRA and the miners' union.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/208/208p19.htm   (2872 words)

  
 Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
The developers of the draft say that the main task of the foreign intelligence is protection of the state secrets and protection of national security of the state, therefore their specification is "pertinent".
British secret services planned in spring 1918 to rescue the last Russian tsar and his family from the house in Ekaterinburg where he was imprisoned by the communists and later executed, The Sunday Times writes.
Secret services of the Russian Federation have been suspecting the employee of the Danish Refugee Council of fulfilment of at least two acts of terrorism, the online agency says.
www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=1098   (2364 words)

  
 The British Conspiracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
They were so secret that their very existence is mentioned only in 2 sentences by Prof.
Secret Agents such as Frau Nagenast, an Astrologer who Hess consulted and paid, were employed to produce charts that pointed to the 10 May being a propitious moment for Hess to fly to Britain.
It was a very British thing to do: standing against the bully, on the side of the persecuted.
members.aol.com /LeonardIngrams/britishconspircacy.html   (1759 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Self-criticism and Introspection in the American and British Secret Services
Western intelligence services- in the U.S., in the UK, but also in France, for other reasons touching on their exchanges with the first two- are carrying out an analysis, if not a self-criticism, on the question of their evaluation of the Iraqi arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
More precisely, the intelligence services are trying to reevaluate the trustworthiness of their sources, by carrying out a complete review of their methods for collecting and analyzing intelligence.
The American and British services could have allowed themselves to be manipulated or duped, in part, by renegades and deserters, even Saddam Hussein double agents, well enough informed and competent to perform what experts call "active measures of deception".
www.truthout.org /docs_03/091803F.shtml   (878 words)

  
 Fresh revelations on secret British terror organisation in Northern Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In the documentary Kevin states that his British handlers were aware of these activities and alleges that during the four years it took him to be accepted into the IRA, he carried out armed robberies and other activities to gain the organisation's trust.
Senior British army intelligence did everything possible in an attempt to obstruct this initial inquiry and it was only when the Stevens team threatened to arrest senior army officers for obstruction that documents were finally handed over to them.
Secret meetings with senior officers 'over tea and biscuits' continued for several months until the soldiers were finally asked if they would be prepared to go back home to take part in what was called 'The Programme'—infiltrating the IRA”.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/fru-m15_prn.shtml   (2368 words)

  
 Operation Gladio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
At their trial in 1977 he said: "There has always been a certain top secret organisation, known to the top authorities of the state and operating in the domain of the secret services, that is involved in activities that have nothing to do with intelligence gathering.
One of these letters made reference to the involvement of both Nato and the CIA in an Italian-based secret service, "parallel" army." (Paddy Agnew, Irish Times, 15/11/90) "Most [of the Moro letters] were written answers to questions put by his captors about his political philosophy, Nato, the Christian Democrat party and so on.
The RFA is the representative body of British military reservists, and the British component of the NATO-supported Confederation Inter-Allies des Officers de Reserve (CIOR).
users.westnet.gr /~cgian/gladio.htm   (4830 words)

  
 The Hindu : Shayler faces arrest in Britain
A former British intelligence officer who made damaging allegations about the British secret services, including details of a plot to kill the Libyan leader, Col. Gadhafi, is to return to Britain after a three year exile in Paris.
The British Government infuriated by these revelations tried for his extradition from Paris, but failed after a French court ruled that he could not be forced to return to Britain.
The security services are also unlikely to want a trial which would allow him the opportunity to bring fresh intelligence material before the public.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/08/21/stories/0321000a.htm   (459 words)

  
 BUCHAREST DAILY NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The MI5 British secret service intercepted the letter but did not take any steps against the press tycoon whose political sympathies were already well-known.
The letter was intercepted by the British secret services when the relationship between Rothermere and the princess deteriorated.
The princess sued Rothermere as the latter ceased to pay her for her services but the trial was rejected by the court shortly after Great Britain declared war to Germany.
www.daily-news.ro /article_detail.php?idarticle=7054   (173 words)

  
 Egypt: History - British Occupation Period
Tawfik remained the khedive, the consular courts dealt justice, the administration was foreign and the British occupied the Citadel.
The British resident minister was similar to the prime minister in England.
The British officers went to the banks to try to get their money while at the British headquarters, vital papers were burned.
www.touregypt.net /hbritish.htm   (1311 words)

  
 Hindustantimes.com - the name India trusts for news
The British secret services had strong linkages with certain elements in the INA also.
The remainder of the month of August 1945 and early in 1946, British high officials and even the India-Burma group of the UK Cabinet headed by Clement Attlee were discussing how Bose was to be eliminated without taking recourse to judicious killing.
We publish today some of these British documents which weighed the pros and cons of how Subhas was to be dealt with even after his supposed death in the air crash of August 18, 1945.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/Netaji/editmore1.htm   (605 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - UK - British secret services on the ground in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
NEW evidence of British involvement in covert and possible military action to overthrow Saddam Hussein emerged today as Iraqi opposition leaders met in London to discuss their plans to replace the Baghdad dictator.
It emerged in London and Washington that British secret servicemen were already on the ground in Iraq trying to foment revolt against the regime.
And British special forces are to play a key role in trying to sabotage Saddam’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons plants if, as expected, a major allied invasion goes ahead early next year.
news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=751622002   (477 words)

  
 Foreign Military Studies Office Book Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Nigel West, a prolific writer on the British secret services, and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, were given access to KGB archives which contained the "crown jewels" of the KGB's British collection—those closely guarded secrets pilfered by British citizens and passed to their Soviet handlers during the 1920s through 1950s.
Great Britain's secrets were thoroughly compromised, the identities and location of her agents disclosed and her Foreign Office wholly penetrated.
The Soviets were well abreast of the British breakthroughs in technology and the status and progress of secret British military weapons.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /bookrevu/crown.htm   (511 words)

  
 The Greater the Lies, the Less the Protest : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The British government was convinced that Iraq continued producing chemical and biological weapons, planned to militarily deploy chemical and biological weapons and could detonate these weapons within 45 minutes.
Those British secret services merged in the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) that already had their dirty hands in preparing the Afghanistan war fabricated the essential threads to the web of lies.
The work of the investigative committees in the US congress and the British parliament could bring to light revealing discoveries about the dangerous activity of the power cartels from secret services and governments.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1669823   (1237 words)

  
 The Memory Hole > German Intelligence Says US Knew in Advance About 9/11
According to the German secret service, the American, Israeli and apparently also the British secret services had adequate warnings.
The American services had taken these warning seriously and increased the secret service measurements for the investigation.
Richard Tomlinson, one of the former employees of the British foreign secret service MI6, said to this newspaper, he could not imagine that the secret services would not have had any hints and tips about a planned attack.
thememoryhole.org /faz-article.htm   (394 words)

  
 Former British Spy Pushing for Fair Reward
While working at the KGB, Makarov furnished Britain's M.I.6 with information about the Soviet secret services' interception of coded messages transmitted between NATO embassies in Moscow and their counterparts in the West.
According to the man, British authorities promised to provide him with decent living conditions and new identification papers for personal security, but have failed to deliver on their promises.
Sunday Times correspondents have learned that in order to stop the former spy from publicly making accusations against British secret services, a one-off compensation of 65,000 pounds will be paid to him and all his litigation expenses will be reimbursed.
nyjtimes.com /cover/01-19-04/SpyReward.htm   (305 words)

  
 British Brigade: More False Flag Terrorism
It should be noted that Hamza, a naturalized British citizen (through marriage), got his start in Afghanistan, where the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI ran a notorious covert op against the Soviet Union.
In this specific case we are dealing with a British based organization Al-Muhajiroun,” supposedly tight with “al-Qaeda.” It should be noted that al-Muhajiroun was formed during the U.S. war against the Serbs in Kosovo.
“British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice,” the Guardian reported on November 10, 2002.
prisonplanet.com /articles/june2006/040606falseflag.htm   (1556 words)

  
 World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
LONDON, Monday (Reuters) British secret services last year vetted one of the bombers behind the London attacks and judged he was not a threat, a report said on Sunday, as police searched for a support network of planners, bomb-makers and financiers.
Three of the bombers were young British Muslims of Pakistani origin, while the fourth was a Jamaican-born Briton.
On Sunday, British police arrested six men in the town of Leeds, northern England, under immigration laws and said they were not linked to the London attacks.A spokesman corrected an earlier police statement that the arrests were made under the Terrorism Act 2000.
www.dailynews.lk /2005/07/19/wld07.htm   (472 words)

  
 Military parlance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military parlance is the vernacular used within the military and embraces all aspects of service life; it can be described as both a "code" and a "classification" of something.
Like many close and closed communities, the language used can often be full of jargon and not readily intelligible to outsiders -- sometimes this is for military operational or security reasons; other times it is because of the natural evolution of the day-to-day language used in the various units.
Some terms are derogatory to varying degrees and many service personnel take some pleasure in the sense of shared hardships which they endure and which is reflected in the slang terms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_parlance   (755 words)

  
 PM - British secret services attempt to block more memoirs
British Security Services are locked in a struggle to prevent the publication of the memoirs of the former Head of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington.
What the Secret Intelligence Agencies, MI5 and MI6 are concerned about, is the unwanted publicity her publication would attract.
DAVID SHAYLOR: My argument when I came out with my line was that I was not in the business just of breaking the Official Secrets Act, all I was trying to do was bring to the attention of the British people matters that were so important that they had to be addressed.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s132199.htm   (842 words)

  
 The Hindu : Murky record of the Secret Services
READERS OF this massive volume on MI (Military Intelligence) 6 which also partly covers MI5, the British Secret Services, are likely to put it down with a feeling of revulsion over the amoral ruthlessness which motivates them as well as the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with which they have coordinated their operations.
Though the British MI5 and MI6 and the CIA of U.S. were operating like a thieves' kitchen, they were also very resentful of any invasion of their respective domains.
The British Government could not ignore its having to be on the right side of the U.S. Britain's belief that the U.S. was very much in need of its expertise was not taken seriously by the U.S. Washington did not believe that the CIA had ``to bolster a fading British presence''.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2000/09/12/stories/13120177.htm   (877 words)

  
 videofact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
He decided to defect to the British Secret Services, who set him to work as a double agent.
As Gordievsky approached a certain crossroads, he opened his closed right hand to reveal a Hershey Bar wrapper and the British secret services moved in.
It is still classified how it happened, but somehow the British were able to bundle up and transport the most wanted man in the Soviet Union out of the vastness of Russia safely back to London.
www.videofact.com /english/agents21.htm   (376 words)

  
 Roger L. Simon:
The differences between America's tough treatment of terrorist suspects and British lenience are usually explained on the grounds of greater British tolerance for radical asylum-seekers, be they political or religious.
The two British secret services charged with combating al Qaeda hold to the view that opening the door to Muslim radicals from all over the world to take up residence in the UK's big cities is the most efficient method for getting their agents inside terrorist groups like al Qaeda.
What has kept the security services from investigating any of this is the fact that the Labour Party is and always has been a very left wing party,some members of the government were on the MI5 watch list in their early years.
www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/07/debkafileas_pri.php   (909 words)

  
 Hints for Months   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The technical secret service, National Security Agency (NSA), would have been after these hints for at least the past three months with the help of the so-called “Echelon” espionage systems--a worldwide network of 120 satellites, which monitors international data communications.
Israeli services would also have had information about Arab terror groups planning to hijack airplanes in Europe to attack Israeli goals in Tel Aviv and other coastal cities.
This should have been noticed by the secret services.” Tomlinson talked about an “obvious total failure of the secret services”.
www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2001/faz091101.html   (422 words)

  
 Oleg Gordievsky - Gurupedia
British Secret Services, who employed him as a double agent.
Gordievsky was eventually found out by the KGB; he was ordered back to Moscow in 1984 and arrested at the dacha of one of his superiors.
He was rescued by British Secret Services after a few weeks of interrogation and transported back to London, although the exact information on how this was done is still classified.
www.gurupedia.com /o/ol/oleg_gordievsky.htm   (163 words)

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