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UNITED KINGDOM 14/06/1995 PETER TEMPLE MORRIS Regarded as one of the best informed conservative MP's on Irish affairs, Peter Temple Morris, co-chairman of the influential Anglo-Irish [...]
NORTHERN IRELAND 31/05/1995 SIR HUGH ANNESLEY With the long-term future of the Royal Ulster Constabulary in doubt a lot of shadow-boxing has sprung up between MI5 [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 26/04/1995 PENNY-PINCHING AT MI6 The British government has announced that it has made a [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 12/04/1995 BAD NEWS FOR GCHQ A committee looking into the capability, tasks and management structure at GCHQ Cheltenham at prime minister John Major's bidding is [...]
FRANCE 29/03/1995 BOIDEVAIX PANEL'S FINDINGS The daily newspaper Liberation revealed on March 21 that a commission chaired by retired diplomat Serge Boidevaix which has been [...]
UNITED STATESUNITED KINGDOM 29/03/1995 SPIRO DEATH SECRECY The San Diego Sheriff's Department has refused an official request from Britain's Foreign Office for copies of a medical examiner's [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 01/03/1995 FREEMASONS MAY BE PROBED The House of Commons committee of all-party MP's headed by Lord Nolan will shortly consider examining the role and influence [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATESFRANCE 01/03/1995 FRANCO-AMERICAN SQUABBLE By demanding in spectacular fashion that the American authorities quickly recall five CIA agents, including the Paris station chief, the French government did nothing so much as underline its own incapacity to come to grips with American spying in France. [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 01/03/1995 ROBIN BUTLER Britain's highest civil servant, 57-year-old Cabinet Secretary Sir Robin Butler, was asked by prime minister John Major in early February [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 19/10/1994 IRAQI TRAFFIC HAUNTS WHITEHALL The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed two weeks ago that senior officials of two Whitehall departments were under "preliminary investigation" by [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 05/10/1994 MORE LEGAL TROUBLE Former "junior" diplomat Andrew Balfour has asked the European Human [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 21/09/1994 MI5 AT THE UNIVERSITY Following accusations by MI5 that "suspect countries" were sending university [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 25/05/1994 PAUL MARTIN Paul Martin, a senior Ministry of Defence official who frequently visited NATO bases in Europe with senior British military delegations [...]
SWITZERLAND 25/05/1994 KEEPING MOD OUT AND MONEY IN The British Ministry of Defence (MOD) has finally conceded defeat after three unsuccessful attempts to gain access to the Swiss [...]
UNITED KINGDOMIRAN 25/05/1994 MAJOR MEDIA OPERATION By calling in the Iranian charge d'affair in London on 24 April, Gholamreza Ansari, the Junior British Foreign Minister, Douglas [...]
IRELAND 04/05/1994 MADRONNA OFF TO A BAD START Hailed as the "biggest joint anti-IRA operation ever mounted" in the Ireland and Great Britain, Operation Madronna began on 19 [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 20/04/1994 JOHN MCLEOD SCARLETT As MI6 "Chief of Station" in Moscow until his recent return to London, John McLeod Scarlett, found himself in the [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 06/04/1994 D NOTICE FOR MI5 POLISH FIASCO A sensitive damage-limitation exercise is underway in Whitehall to protect the position and reputation of MI5 Director Stella Rimington whose [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 23/03/1994 THE NEW MI6 CHIEF KNEW? Despite a Foreign Office (FO) statement that David Rowland Spedding, the new head of the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (I.N. [...]
UNITED KINGDOM 23/03/1994 PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES Named as successor to Sir Roderic Braithwaite last October, Pauline Neville-Jones took over at the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) in [...]