Media Intelligence exposes

See Aldrich 2004, 936

British newspapers had agreed to surpress that Blake was MI6 officer when reporting his trial

In February 1963 Fleet Street crime reporters Reg Foster and Brendan Mulholland made history by being jailed. They had persisted in their refusal to disclose sources of information on their reporting of the Vassall spy case and were thus sentenced at the high court for contempt; the Daily Sketch's Foster was given three months for refusing to name one source and the Daily Mail's Mulholland got six months for refusing to reveal two.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/12/guardianobituaries2

Title: Ivanov

Chapman Pincher revealed that private cables and telegrams were being intercepted by intelligence agencies.

He preceded this book with The Man from Moscow: The Story Of Wynne and Penkovsky (1967)

Includes the first interview with Philby where he admitted spying for KGB since 1933

Izvestiya and its weekly review Nedelya claiming to identify a number of Fleet Street editors and journalists as assets of MI6. Dismissed at the time by UK news media but most likely true

An article in Time Out magazine "The Eavesdroppers" by Duncan Campbell reveals for the first time in Britain the existence of a highly secretive intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters).

Wilson's fears were publicised in July 1977 in an article in The Observer, in which he was quoted as claiming that a faction in the Service was mounting a "whispering campaign" against him.

How the FO waged a secret propaganda war in Britain. Article. Observer

Colonel Hugh Anthony Johnstone OBE was administrative head of SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) in the British Army during the 1970s.

He became known when he was identified (by the radical magazines Peace News and The Leveller) as the much-publicised anonymous witness Colonel B in the ABC Trial.

Threat of the electronic spies - by Duncan Campbell. Vast sums are swallowed on intelligence collection, yet the agencies systematically fail to foresee important crises - Iran being the major recent example.
2 February, 1979

Special relationships by Duncan Campbell. The United States International Communication Agency declares the UKUSA communications relationship is without 'parallel.'

In Climate of Treason published 1979

In December 1979, Barrie Penrose, a journalist, concluded that Cairncross was the Fifth Man and confronted him. Cairncross's third confession became front-page news.

Big Buzby is watching: New Statesman. By Duncan Campbell.
Evidence assembled from several sources suggests that a highly-secretive Post Office installation in Chelsea is the government's phone-tapping centre - and that the scope of its operations is much larger than Parliament has ever been told.

Big Brother's many mansions

The sole accountability of MI5, MI6 and other services to Parliament is through the annual Secret Vote, recently raised to £40m. But this can only be a small part of actual resources allocated. Other funds are 'Iaundered' away from budgets.

Destabilising the 'decent people': by Duncan Campbell. It is now accepted that phone-tapping levels in this country are far higher than Parliament has been allowed to know. Further explosive disclosures in the NS have been greeted with tacit, sullen acknowledgement.

GCHQ: the cover up continues. by Duncan Campbell. New Statesman revealed evidence of widespread corruption, security failure and foreign espionage inside GCHQ. Further evidence of GCHQ's corruption is revealed and how it relates to dangerous incompetence.

By Duncan Campbell: Menwith Hill Station, Yorkshire, is "the largest field site in the agency " (NSA). This massive major investigation run jointly with the Sunday Times in 1980 uncovered how, it was already one of the world's biggest telecommunications-tapping centres. Witnesses revealed how it was spying on Britain and Europe, and wired into international telecommunications

By the end of January, the story had been leaked to Guardian journalist, David Leigh, who reported in a Guardian piece, 'Film dropped after Trethowan intervenes,' that the film was to be scrapped on Trethowan’s authority.

Gordon Winter’s book, Inside Boss, published by Allen Lane in 1981 and subsequently suppressed after legal action. Much of it is about his activities in the UK spying for the South Africans.

Unaccountable empire building

Duncan Campbell reveals for the first time the pyramid of official committees that 'control' Britain's spying activities.

Ungentlemanly spy at the Travellers

A secret undercover recruiting operation for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is being run
by a man who is careless enough not to pay his bills on time.
http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/newstatesman-1984/ungentlemanly%20spy%20at%20travellers.pdf

Leigh and Lashmar

Nick Davies and Ian Black following on from Bettaney Trial. Nick Davies and Ian Black, 'The Watchers' The Guardian 19/4/84.

According to staff from Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain spies on other countries' communications to obtain information for private arms manufacturers.

Duncan Campbell. http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/newstatesman-1984/GCHQ%20boosts%20arms%20sales.pdf

Paul Greengrass. July 1984 titled "The Spy Who Never Was", the confessions of a former MI5 officer, Peter Wright.

Peter Edge describe his role as informer. Leigh and Lashmar

Brian Lapping and Norma Percy's "End of Empire" series detailed British involvement in the 1953 Iran Coup. The involvement of the CIA and MI6 had been suspected before the coup had been actioned. It is very hard to say who first revealed the involvement of the CIA as it was an open secret. This website has an excellent timeline on this: http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/1953/operation-ajax/an-open-secret/
Certainly by the 1970s it was taken as read that MI6 were involved. The website reference to Lapping/Percy's outstanding series is the first detailed account. If anyone can identify an earlier expose please detail. The TV series can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhCgJElpQEQ&index=8&list=PLKbAOjR-oTwoajWr8yHkseywJjG4oTSqz

In 1985, Massiter, who as an MI5 officer had been responsible for the surveillance of CND from 1981 to 1983, resigned and made disclosures to a Channel 4 20/20 Vision programme, "MI5's Official Secrets". 8 March 1985 - Former MI5 Officer Cathy Massiter expresses disquiet about MI5's over zealous definition of term "subversive" in Channel 4's 20/20 Vision programme "MI5's Official Secrets".

Ms Massiter reveals the National Council for Civil Liberties and CND are classified as 'subversive'.

She claims MI5's definition of subversion was being distorted and widened, saying: "We were violating our own rules. It seemed to be getting out of control."

Secrets of Cyprus spy trial

The acquittal of all seven of the defendants in the Cyprus spy trial has left the government and the prosecution with egg all over its face. The spy base has been a continual embarrassment to the government.
http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/newstatesman-1985/Lurid%20imaginations%20of%20show%20trial%20prosecutors.pdf

Part of a long series of articles

Trial to prevent publication of the Peter Wright book.

How Zircon was launched: by Duncan Campbell. The government has handed back material from the five Secret Society films seized from BBC Scotland in January.

Duncan Campbell revealed in the New Statesman the existence of ECHELON, an extension of the UKUSA Agreement on global signals intelligence [Sigint]. The story, 'Somebody's listening,' detailed how the eavesdropping operations were not only being employed in the interests of 'national security,' but were regularly abused for corporate espionage in the service of US business interests.

Julian Manyon and Chris Oxey.

Robbie Robinson, highly vetted junior civil servant working for JIC, did a WIA with me in 89/90, disclosing surveillance of domestic targets. From Nick Davies

Lashmar and Oliver

Among his claims were that the intelligence service was paranoid about "reds under the bed" and that it had investigated Labour ministers Peter Mandelson, Jack Straw and Harriet Harman.

October 1997. Arrested and imprisoned in UK. I had to pay for my own defence. I decided I could not afford a long trial, so pleaded guilty. Imprisoned for 12 months (released on parole after six months).

Tony Geraghty’s book The Irish War, which exposed the extensive use of computerised surveillance by intelligence agencies in Northern Ireland. Geraghty was charged with a breach of s5 OSA 1989 in December 1998, but the charge was dropped in December 1999.

MI6 officers worked in Iraq as UN inspectors. Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/mi6-officers-worked-in-iraq-as-un-inspectors-1076106.html

Duncan Campbell and Paul Lashmar. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/how-britain-eavesdropped-on-dublin-1106606.html

The threat to prosecute Liam Clarke of the Sunday Times for breach of s5 OSA by publishing a series of articles detailing disclosures made by agents, including ‘Martin Ingrams’ of the activities of the Forces Research Unit in Northern Ireland.

Lashmar and Brown. Check how this was made public

Stephen Dorrill’s book, MI6: Fifty years of special operations, in 2000, which contained a number of revelations.

Duncan Campbell and Paul Lashmar. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-30-more-nations-with-spy-stations-707320.html

Late 2000 – Publication of former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson’s book The Big Breach in the UK, following a Court of Appeal decision in favour of The Sunday Times. Tomlinson’s book was initially published in Moscow, but soon after in the UK. First major publication from a former MI6 officer.

On May 1 2001 Ulster Television broadcast an interview with a former RUC Detective in the RUC Criminal Investigation Branch (CID), Detective Sergeant Johnson 'Jonty' Brown. In the programme a series of allegations were made concerning RUC Special Branch. It was claimed that Special Branch routinely blocked investigations and destroyed evidence in order to protect informers. This included the investigation into, and evidence concerning, the murder of Pat Finucane. See here for a full transcript of the TV programme.

Reference is made in the programme to internal RUC instructions governing the interchange of intelligence between RUC Special Branch and the CID. These instructions were contained in a memo issued on 23 February 1981, the Walker Report. The report was authored by Patrick Walker who, it is believed, was second in command of MI5 in the North in the early 1980s.
http://www.patfinucanecentre.org/policing/walkerintro.html

n the brink of war: The spies' revolt MI6 and CIA: the new enemy within” by Paul Lashmar and Raymond Whitaker, Independent on Sunday 09/02/2003

GCHQ translator leaked email.

Scappaticci denied the claims and launched an unsuccessful legal action to have the British government state he was not their agent. He later left Northern Ireland and was rumoured to be living in Cassino, Italy.

The threat to prosecute Liam Clarke of the Sunday Times for breach of s5 OSA by publishing a series of articles detailing disclosures made by agents, including ‘Martin Ingrams’ of the activities of the Forces Research Unit in Northern Ireland.

Gilligan, the defence correspondent for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, said a "senior official in charge of compiling the dossier" had alleged the government had inserted the claim that weapons of mass destruction could be launched within 45 minutes even though it had come from just one unreliable source.

The initial report went out at 6.07am on May 29 2003, and by 7.32am Downing Street had issued a categorical denial of the allegations, saying "Not one word of the dossier was not entirely the work of the intelligence agencies."
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jan/21/huttoninquiry.davidkelly

June 1, 2003, Sunday, TITLE PAGE; Pg. 1, 725 words, RAYMOND WHITAKER, PAUL LASHMAR AND ANDY MCSMITH

BBC1 (2004) “A failure of intelligence?” Panorama. 11/07/04

Rufford, Nicholas (August 1, 2004), "Italian spies ‘faked documents’ on Saddam nuclear purchase", The Sunday Times of London

Grey, Stephen (2004) US accused of ‘torture flights', London: Sunday Times. 14/11/2004

Smith obtained the first six of the eight Downing St Memos while working for the Daily Telegraph. The second set of two documents, including the Downing Street memo itself, were obtained while he was working for the Sunday Times.

The ‘ricin plot’ proved to be an embarrassment for the security services. As tests later showed there was no ricin. Only one person was found guilty, an Algerian who fatally stabbed a police officer during his arrest. Several other Algerians were acquitted. Supposed al Qaeda terror manuals had been lifted in large part from survivalist manuals openly published in the US. The best account of the fiasco was written by investigative journalist Duncan Campbell who gave evidence for the defence see Campbell, Duncan (2005) The ricin ring that never was, The Guardian. 14/04/2005.

A copy of the memo was obtained by British journalist Michael Smith and published in the The Sunday Times in May 2005, on the eve of British elections. "The secret Downing Street memo". The Sunday Times (London). 1 May 2005.

Stephan Grey with Ian Cobain, broke the Binyam Mohamed rendition story, which concerned UK intell, here http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/aug/02/guantanamo.humanrights

12 sept 05, Ian Cobain and Stephen Grey did the first story on the use of UK airports etc for rendition planes.http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/sep/12/usa.politics

BBC2 (2005) 7 July bomber ‘filmed in 2004’, Newsnight - reporter Richard Watson 25/10/2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/uk_terror_threat/default.stm

The Real Spooks - Panorama - Peter Taylor

Following a London jury's decision on the fate of seven young British Pakistanis accused of conspiracy to cause explosions in a huge bomb plot, reporter Peter Taylor reveals disturbing evidence that M15 failed to pass on crucial details about two of the 7/7 suicide bombers who had connections with some of those found guilty. His report questions the Security Service's claim that under the circumstances it did all it could to prevent the 7/7 bombings.

Ian Cobain
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/08/mi5-mi6-acccused-of-torture

The Mail on Sunday reported in April 2010 that MI5 bugged Downing Street under five UK Prime Ministers between 1963 and 1977. The bugs were initially ordered by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. After a brief gap they were reinstated by his successor, Alec Douglas-Home. It is not clear whether Edward Heath and Harold Wilson were told of the surveillance.

On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and five major newspapers from Spain (El País), France (Le Monde), Germany (Der Spiegel), the United Kingdom (The Guardian), and the United States (The New York Times) started simultaneously to publish the first 220 of 251,287 leaked confidential – but not top-secret (dated from 28 December 1966 to 28 February 2010).[

UK's secret policy on torture revealed
Exclusive: Document shows intelligence officers instructed to weigh importance of information sought against pain inflicted. Ian Cobain
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/aug/04/uk-allowed-interrogate-tortured-prisoners

From Russia With Love - Panorama - Peter Taylor. How did an MP's former assistant come to be wrongly accused by MI5 of being a threat to British national security?

In August 2014, Agent Storm: My Life Inside al-Qaeda by Morten Storm with CNN reporters Tim Lister and Paul Cruickshank was published by Atlantic Monthly Press.

The Spies Who Fooled the World - Peter Taylor
Panorama

On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to justify the invasion were based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies. Peter Taylor tracks down some of those responsible and reports on the remarkable story of how, in the months before the war, two highly-placed sources - close to Saddam Hussein - talked secretly to the CIA and MI6. Their intelligence said Iraq did not have an active WMD programme - but it was simply dismissed.

Ware, J. (2013) ‘Britain's Secret Terror Force’, BBC One, Panorama Programme, Thursday 21 November.

In July, WikiLeaks released 92,000 documents related to the war in Afghanistan between 2004 and the end of 2009 to the publications The Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel. The documents detail individual incidents including "friendly fire" and civilian casualties.

Britain's Secret Terror Deals
Panorama

British security forces have been accused of involvement in dozens of murders during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates allegations that the state colluded with paramilitary killers and covered up their crimes. He meets the families who have been fighting for decades to uncover the government's darkest secrets and he confronts some of those believed to be complicit.

BY DANIEL MARTIN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3171095/Senior-Westminster-figures-1970s-1980s-named-government-child-abuse-files.html