Thames House, the headquarters of the British Security Service (MI5) in London © Peter Nicholls / Reuters. (MI5 is like the American FBI — domestic intelligence — and MI6 (below is its sinister, Babylonian-looking headquarters in London, also on the River Thames) is like the American CIA — foreign intelligence.)
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British intelligence now officially a by-word for organized crime
John Wight has written for a variety of newspapers and websites, including the Independent, Morning Star, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, London Progressive Journal, and Foreign Policy Journal.The quite astounding revelation that Britain’s domestic intelligence service, MI5, has enjoyed this very freedom for decades has only just been made public at a special tribunal in London, set up to investigate the country’s intelligence services at the behest of a coalition of human rights groups, alleging a pattern of illegality up to and including collusion in murder.
The hitherto MI5 covert policy sanctioning its agents to commit and/or solicit serious crimes, as and when adjudged provident, is known as the Third Direction. This code name has been crafted, it would appear, by someone with a penchant for all things James Bond within an agency whose average operative is more likely to be 5’6” and balding with a paunch and bad teeth than any kind of lantern-jawed 007.
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The Pat Finucane Centre, one of the aforementioned human rights groups involved in bringing about this tribunal investigation (Investigatory Powers Tribunal, to give it its Sunday name) into the nefarious activities of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, issued a damning statement in response to the further revelation that former Prime Minister David Cameron introduced oversight guidelines with regard to the MI5 covert third direction policy back in 2012.
Cameron’s decision to do so, the group claims, was far from nobly taken:
“It can be no coincidence that Prime Minister David Cameron issued new guidelines, however flawed, on oversight of MI5 just two weeks before publication of the De Silva report into the murder of Pat Finucane. The PM was clearly alive to the alarming evidence which was about to emerge of the involvement of the Security Service in the murder. To date no-one within a state agency has been held accountable. The latest revelations make the case for an independent inquiry all the more compelling.”
Pat Finucane, a Belfast Catholic, plied his trade as a human rights lawyer at a time when the right to be fully human was denied the minority Catholic community of the small and enduring outpost of British colonialism in the north east corner of Ireland, otherwise known as Northern Ireland. He was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989, back when the decades-long conflict euphemistically referred to as the Troubles still raged, claiming victims both innocent and not on all sides.
Unlike the vast majority of those killed and murdered in the course of this brutal conflict, Finucane’s murder sparked a long and hard fought struggle for justice by surviving family members, friends and campaigners. They allege – rather convincingly, it should be said – that it was carried out with the active collusion of MI5.
Stepping back and casting a wider view over this terrain, the criminal activities of Britain’s intelligence services constitute more than enough material for a book of considerable heft. How fortunate then that just such a book has already been written.
In his ‘Dead Men Talking: Collusion, Cover Up and Murder in Northern Ireland’s Dirty War’, author Nicholas Davies “provides information on a number of the killings [during the Troubles], which were authorized at the highest level of MI5 and the British government.”
But over and above the crimes of MI5 in Ireland, what else have those doughty defenders of the realm been up to over the years? After all, what is the use of having a license to engage in serious criminal activity, including murder and, presumably, torture, if you’re not prepared to use (abuse) it? It begs the question of how many high-profile deaths attributed to suicide, natural causes, and accident down through the years have been the fruits of MI5 at work?
And what about the possibility of MI5’s involvement in, dare we use the term, false-flag operations?
As someone who abhors the premise of conspiracy theory on principle, the fact that more and more are turning to its warm embrace as an intellectual reflex against what is politely described as the ‘official narrative’ of events, well this is no surprise when we learn of the egregious machinations of Western intelligence agencies such as Britain’s MI5.
What we are bound to state, doing so without fear of contradiction, is this particular revelation opens up a veritable Pandora’s Box of grim possibilities when it comes to the potential crimes committed by Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, ensuring that a full and vigorous investigation and public inquiry is now both necessary and urgent.
If any such investigation is to be taken seriously, however, it must include in its remit the power to investigate all possible links between Britain’s intelligence community and organisations such as, let’s see, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group?
The deafening UK mainstream media and political class silence over the trail connecting 2017 Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi and MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence agency, leaves a lingering stench of intrigue that will not out. The work of investigative journalist Mark Curtis on this sordid relationship is unsurpassed.
As Curtis writes, “The evidence suggests that the barbaric Manchester bombing, which killed 22 innocent people on May 22nd, is a case of blowback on British citizens arising at least partly from the overt and covert actions of British governments.”
In the same report he arrives at a conclusion both damning and chilling: “The evidence points to the LIFG being seen by the UK as a proxy militia to promote its foreign policy objectives. Whitehall also saw Qatar as a proxy to provide boots on the ground in Libya in 2011, even as it empowered hardline Islamist groups.”
Finally: “Both David Cameron, then Prime Minister, and Theresa May – who was Home Secretary in 2011 when Libyan radicals were encouraged to fight Qadafi [Muammar Gaddafi] – clearly have serious questions to answer. We believe an independent public enquiry is urgently needed.”
In words that echo down to us from ancient Rome, the poet Juvenal taunts our complacency with a question most simple and pertinent: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” Who will guard the guards themselves?
Edward R Murrow puts it rather more bluntly: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Sooner or later, people in Britain are going to have to wake up to who the real enemy is.
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The policy, allegedly in place since the early 1990s, would potentially allow the Security Service to authorize participation in“murder, torture, sexual assault or other grave criminality” if they believed it was in the public interest, claimed Ben Jaffey QC, representing an alliance of human rights groups.
Speaking to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), Thursday, Jaffey, argued that the practice has enabled British security services to conceal widespread illegal activity from both agents and informants within the UK.
Known within intelligence circles as ‘the third direction,’ the policy was acknowledged for the first time in a British court when Jaffrey’s clients, including Privacy International and Reprieve, claimed that the practice was unlawful on human rights grounds.
It had earlier been revealed that British intelligence agents, namely MI6, were allowed to commit crime overseas. Thursday’s hearing was the first time authorized criminality from the security services within Britain had been claimed.
MI5’s policy would be illegal if it breaches human rights, such as the ban on the use of torture, Jaffey told the secretive IPT tribunal.
“This is a case where the agencies are able to self-grant themselves a practical immunity from the criminal law,”Jaffrey argued.
The policy would have been in place when MI5 agents were active in Northern Ireland, which in the early 90s was still witnessing “The Troubles,” a low-level sectarian war.
The UK government’s official guidelines state that there is no immunity from prosecution for agents who participate in criminality. Despite this, Jaffrey said that police and prosecutors were unaware of the details of the crime due to the secrecy of the policy.
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The revelation is the latest embarrassment for the government during the IPT tribunal, a similar policy – the so-called ‘James Bond clause’ – was exposed earlier in the proceedings.
Following the hearing, Maya Foa, director of Reprieve, said: “We want to know if it’s government policy to let MI5 agents get away with serious crimes such as torture and murder.” She urged the government, if this is their policy, to “inform MPs and the public, and open the policy to legal and parliamentary scrutiny.”
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……What Lord Rothschild said
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…..Coldsteam Guards Captain Archibald Ramsay’s “The Nameless War” — how British Khazars have planned, financed and directed revolutions in England and across Europe
Did you know that a top MP and WWI hero spent four years in prison without charge or lawyer for opposing war with the Germans, who were then trying to destroy the communist Soviet Union?
Captain Archibald Ramsay of Scotland, severely wounded WWI infantry hero with the elite Coldstream Guards, was a member of Parliament for 14 years — 4.5 of them IN PRISON!
Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay was descended from the Earls of Dalhousie, Scotland, and was born in 1894. He attended the most elite private school in England, Eton, a five-year high school for boys 13-18, from which:
—19 British prime ministers have graduated, including the last one, David Cameron, but also
–the British spymaster who later wrote the James Bond novels, Ian Fleming;
— the writer of the world-famous novel 1984, George Orwell, about Big Brother,
–and both Prince William and Prince Harry in our time.
Prince Harry
After graduating from the best high school in Britain, he then attended the “West Point” of Great Britain, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
As a captain in the British Army, he served in heavy combat in World War One, in the elite Coldstream Guards, the oldest unit in the British Army, often called just “the Guards.”
Badge of the Coldstreamers, as they are called.
In peacetime they are famous for guarding Buckingham Palace, and for the Changing of the Guard ceremony. (I am proud that my English grandfather’s ancestors served in the Coldstream Guards.)
Had my grandfather, John Thomas Colwell, seen here with my grandmother, Elizabeth Angell Colwell, not moved as a boy with his parents to America in 1905, he might well have ended up a Coldstreamer too, fighting in France under Captain Ramsay!
In 1916 Ramsay received a severe head wound on the front lines in France fighting the Germans, and was transferred to the War Office in London.
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Did you know this imprisonment without any charge or lawyer also happened to a top admiral of the Royal Navy, a battleship commander, a director of the Royal Naval War College and head of Naval Intelligence, Sir Barry Domvile? Four years in one of the worst British prisons?
It was called “Regulation 18b” and was based on media hysteria over a faked “IRA bombing” of some cloakrooms in London where some coats and caps were blown up!
(See also https://johndenugent.com/?s=captain+ramsay)
These new audiobook and online versions of Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay’s 1952 The Nameless War tells who was really behind key revolutions in Western history since 1600, and how these evil revolutions succeeded in overthrowing powerful governments and destroying or harming societies.
https://archive.org/details/01IntroJdnNamelessWarArchibaldRamsaySept2015
The 227-page pdf to accompany this audiobook
s replete with 327 photographs and numerous explanations added by former US Marine and magna cum laude Georgetown graduate John de Nugent,
So anyone interested in getting rid of the Zionist tyranny over the western world can learn from this book, which has been very popular since it first appeared in London in 1952.
In a nutshell, Ramsay says a Khazar-organized revolution to overthrow any powerful government takes
1) tonnes of money to pay for agents;
2) a strategy to paralyze the government as it is attacked so it does not act vigorously at the decisive moment to defend itself;
and 3) meanwhile the people must be divided up, and too busy fighting each other to notice the government is being overthrown.
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…..The Normans — white nordic aristocrats who borrowed from and intermarried with Khazars to create the current Anglo-American ruling class.
Prescott Bush (r) of the Bush political dynasty — note the nose — with then-U.S. Congressman Richard Nixon
Ever since the Norman Conquest (done partly by my own de Nugent ancestors, unfortunately), England has been heartless toward the working people.
The Normans were Vikings who were ravaging France in the AD 800s, and captured even Paris. These Northmen were then given Normandy (henceforth called “Northman-Land” by the French, “La Normandie”) by the king of France as an outright bribe so they would stop marauding all over his country.
They learned French in Normandy, then cast about after 150 years of very boring peacetime for another land to pillage, conquer and milk dry.
Rouen, Normandy Jews then lent them the money to launch a vast expedition to conquer England in 1066,
…and in turn the Normans made them their ruthless moneylenders and tax farmers, using the Domesday Book to record what every Englishman was worth.
In the end, the profligate Norman lords went broke, then married their sons off to the hooknosed daughters of their Jewish bankers, and as a result England is ruled by lords and gentry with semi-semitic facial features and vile attitudes of barely concealed contempt toward the native, common British people:
They simply use and abuse them, or even rape and molest their children, or let muslims do it,
…and send off the grown young “Tommy Jenkins” (which was poet Rudyard Kipling’s word for the common English soldier) to kill innocent faraway peoples, or die or be maimed, for the sole benefit of their own parasitical Judeo-Norman wealth and power.
UK PM Theresa May, hooknosed and all smiles with South African President Ramaphosa, who is seizing all white farmlands from the Boers and British there without paying one cent.
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