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The officer in charge of vetting at that time was Ronnie Stonham. [3] The "Christmas tree" scheme was dropped in 1984. [4] Mike Fentiman claimed that the Christmas tree symbol was used because the Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" had the same tune as the socialist song "The Red Flag". [5]
From the late 1930s until the end of the Cold War, MI5 had an officer at the BBC vetting editorial applicants. During World War II 'subversives', particularly suspected communists such as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, were banned from the BBC. The personnel records of anyone suspicious were stamped with a distinctively shaped green tag, or ...
This was a system based on an internal memo drafted by an MI5 officer in 1936, which criticised the long-standing policy of arresting and sending to trial all enemy agents discovered by MI5. Several had offered to defect to Britain when captured; before 1939, such requests were invariably turned down.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “Where there are individuals who pose a threat to our national security we are absolutely committed to using the full range of powers available to ...
A lawyer accused of working for the Chinese government by MI5 has lost her legal challenge against the intelligence agency. The Security Service warned MPs in January 2022 that it believed ...
In his memoir Spycatcher (1987), former MI5 officer Peter Wright stated that the head of the CIA's Counterintelligence Division, James Angleton, told him that Wilson was a Soviet agent when Wilson became Prime Minister after the 1964 general election. Wright said that Angleton referred to this assertion coming from a source (whom he did not ...
The committee said: “Extreme right-wing terrorists often display an interest in military culture, weaponry and the armed forces or law enforcement organisations – the director-general for MI5 ...
In July 2010, the government revealed Evans received an annual salary of £159,999. [12] In September 2010, Evans said that the American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki was the West's Public Enemy No 1. [13] Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike on 30 September 2011. [14]