"MI6 retained the power to censor what was published"
Then who would really want to read this PoS propaganda, let alone the book itself?
"For your eyes only, the official story of British spies; Account of MI6 to ’49 shows Bond wasn’t all fiction" by Jill Lawless, Associated Press | September 22, 2010
LONDON — It’s James Bond, with bureaucracy and cramped office space.
The first-ever official history of MI6 reveals that Britain’s foreign spy agency debated assassinating Nazi leaders, landed a spy wearing a wetsuit over his tux at a casino by the sea, and experimented with exploding filing cabinets — but also wrangled with other government departments and had to make do on a shoestring budget.
Official history = lies
Yeah, pity the poor spooks, pfft!
And can we get through JUST ONE DAY without seeing the word Nazi in the newspaper?
The book, published yesterday, tells a story of plots, paperwork, duplicity, and derring-do that takes in fears of a Nazi anthrax attack, cross-dressing secret agents, and worries about the safety of the prime minister’s milk supply.
Readers.... sigh
Also see: Nazis Had Nukes
“The real James Bonds are more interesting than the fictional James Bond,’’ said author Keith Jeffery, a historian at Queen’s University Belfast, who had access to previously secret files in the MI6 archive.
“They are male and female. They are real people. They have real frailties and real courage.’’
They are, often, larger than life: figures like Wilfred “Biffy’’ Dunderdale, a Russian-speaking MI6 agent in Paris between the world wars, who Jeffery said had “a well-known penchant for pretty girls and fast cars, and terrific savoir-faire.’’
He was a friend of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and a possible model for the suave secret agent. In old age he became “an incorrigible raconteur’’ who would claim to recognize his own exploits in the 007 stories.
Does anyone care anymore?
Here we have REAL SPOOKS making a HELL of the world today and the AmeriKan newspapers are reporting this crap?
There is also Dudley Clarke, an agent arrested in Madrid in 1941 “dressed, down to a brassiere, as a woman.’’ The Spanish fascist authorities, confused about whether he was a spy or simply a cross-dresser, eventually released him. Jeffery says he “went on to have a brilliant career in deception.’’
As if that is something of which someone should be proud.
There is also agent Pieter Tazelaar, put ashore beside a Dutch seafront casino one night during World War II, “in full evening dress and smelling of alcohol, wearing a specially designed rubber oversuit to keep him dry while landing.’’ On the beach, a colleague “sprinkled a few drops of Hennessy XO brandy on him to strengthen his ‘party-goer’s’ image.’’
Such compelling reading.
The book tells the story of an agency founded in 1909 with a staff of one, Mansfield Cumming, who recorded his first day in his diary: “Went to the office and remained all day, but saw no one, nor was there anything to do there.’’ It quickly got more interesting, although Jeffery writes that for decades, MI6 “had to operate on a shoestring’’ and was perennially short of office space.
Pfft.
The book reveals that its agents included well-loved authors W. Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and Arthur Ransome, who spied in the Soviet Union and whose mistress was Leon Trotsky’s secretary.
That it is funny because THEY ARE the PRESS here in AmeriKa!
It recounts that MI6 spied actively on the United States during the 1930s before deciding that “it was more productive to be friends with the United States than continue to treat it as an intelligence target.’’
Related: Israeli spy ring
Israeli Spying: The Mother of all Scandals
The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9-11
And here you thought they were your friend, Americans!
Around the same time, MI6 was worried about looming war with Germany, particularly the possibility that the Nazis would use biological weapons, possibly exposing anthrax on the London Underground.
Please see: The Anthrax Attacks and the AmeriKan MSM
And never you mind the chemicals Israel and the United States have dumped on people from Asia to South America.
A memo also asked whether the prime minister’s milk supply was secure, as “milk bottles on doorstep can be tampered with.’’
Some of the revelations are sensitive even now. The book includes an account of Operation Embarrass, in which British agents blew up ships in Italian ports to deter postwar Jewish refugees from sailing to Palestine, then under British control.
Yeah, the poor Zionist murderers on their way to steal Palestinian land.
This is such crap and it is in my newspaper?
Related:
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Looks like the British agents never stopped blowing things up, huh?
Btw, ever hear of Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan, readers?
Also see: May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
Kinda a kick in the head, huh?
The book deflates some cherished myths.
Translation: it is a SELF-SERVING COVER-UP!!
MI6 agents do not have a “license to kill,’’ although the agency compiled a list of possible Nazi assassination targets before the D-Day landings. It was judged that the plan was too risky and might spark reprisals.
Pfffffffft!
More happily for spy buffs, Q — the gadget-making super-scientist from the Bond films — is based on reality.
Translation: It is total fiction.
After World War II, MI6 researchers worked on silent weapons, knockout tablets, safecracking tools, and exploding filing cabinets that could destroy secret documents at short notice.
The book follows the publication last year of an official history of MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service.
Official history = lies
Jeffery said he struck a “Faustian pact’’ when he agreed to write the book. He could look at everything in the archives, but MI6 retained the power to censor what was published.
The book stops abruptly in 1949, but still represents a change of policy for an agency whose existence was only officially acknowledged in the 1990s.
Who would want to read that PoS?
John Scarlett, the former MI6 chief who commissioned the book, said it is intended to “promote well-informed understanding and public debate about MI6,’’ without compromising current operations or living agents.
It is a piece of pure propaganda!
There is unlikely to be a sequel.
Who would buy it?
“For MI6 this is an exceptional event,’’ said Scarlett, who stepped down last year as “C,’’ code-name for the agency’s head. “There has been nothing like it before and there are no plans for anything similar in the future.’’
Good, because the air smells bad enough around here.
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Also see: James Bond in Boston
