MI-6 operations

They were reacting to Sir Richard Dearlove, another retired MI6 head, who stated, ”... the truth about Brexit from a national security perspective is that the cost to Britain would be low.” ... British special operations forces also successfully repulsed an attack by Indonesia on the new state of Malaysia in 1965.

The pair were detained in Thailand in March 2004 after a tipoff from MI6 and were forcibly returned to Tripoli to the government of then Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qaddafi in an operation named 'extraordinary rendition'. They say that masked CIA officers detained them at Bangkok airport, strapped ...

Richard Dearlove, who as head of MI6 was involved in the infamous dodgy dossier that helped take us into the disastrous Iraq War, should not be trying to give ... On 18 March 2004, Allen wrote to Libya's spy chief Moussa Koussa applauding the co-operation between Libya and Britain on the rendition.

In a joint CIA-MI6 operation in 2004, Belhaj and his pregnant wife Fatima Bouchar were seized in Malaysia and secretly flown to Tripoli where they ... Britain's Crown Prosecution Service in 2015 decided not to prosecute MI6, Allen, or Jack Straw, the foreign secretary at the time of the rendition operations.

In other words, as a skilled professional intelligence officer, Steele ran a full-spectrum information operation against the United States. One could even call it information warfare. “This is what separates his work creating the dossier (which a decent journalist with friends in Russia could have done) from his ...

Britain's MI6 is headed by Alex Younger, the French DGSE by Bernard Emie and German BND by Bruno Kahl. Brexit may reduce some data exchanges. The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera says the joint statement is a signal - to politicians as well as the public - that the spy chiefs do not want ...

Which is precisely what made him, to use the words of Sir Alex Younger, the current head of MI6, “a consummately effective intelligence officer". .... And when he found out about illegal Zionist operations to smuggle Jews from Germany to Palestine, he kept quiet, instead of telling his superiors as the (British) ...

Two former British spy chiefs have warned the UK government not to use security co-operation as a “bargaining chip” to secure a better deal in the Brexit negotiations. Sir John Sawers, a former head of MI6, and Robert Hannigan, a former GCHQ chief, said Britain and the EU must agree a data-sharing deal ...

After a wonderfully quirky start, the middle of this book is rather tedious, concentrating as it does on infighting between MI14, MI6 and the Special Operations Executive. Raskin and his friends in Leopold Vindictive, meanwhile, prepared another report to send to Britain, which included a map of the Belgian ...

In 2004 Belhaj was seized in Bangkok and taken to a jail in Tripoli, along with his pregnant wife, in a joint CIA-MI6 operation. The hearing was the latest in Belhaj's attempt to get an apology from the British government in a case that has dragged on for several years. The tranche of documents includes ...