The Privilege of Rank

5 March: Former SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove has written an open letter to the UK’s Daily Telegraph along with 33 pro-Brexit academics and business leaders. The letter praises Brexit as offering “immediate opportunities” and criticises Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed deal as “disastrous”. Dearlove’s right-wing political affiliations are no …

Trust No One

A conman who posed as an MI6 agent has been extradited to the UK from Switzerland. Mark Acklom, 46, defrauded a Gloucestershire woman out of her life savings of £850,000. He fled the country in 2012 while he was under investigation. He was arrested in Zurich in June 2018 and …

Strange Days

On 10 February a story appeared in the Sunday Express stating that SIS, Mossad and the CIA had collaborated in an operation to smuggle a nuclear scientist out of Iran and, eventually, into the US. You can read the story here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1085207/spies-MI6-smuggle-iranian-defector-dinghy-uk-channel The story is strange in that much of …