The Defence of the Realm (192 page)

27
 Ibid.,
pp. 66
,
86
,
114
,
132
,
172
,
194
,
343
,
347
,
385
,
391
.

28
 Security Service Archives.

29
 Security Service Archives.

30
 Security Service Archives.

31
 Security Service Archives.

32
 Security Service Archives.

33
 Donoughue noted on 26 April 1974 that Kissin was worried because ‘His peerage has been delayed.' Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 108
.

34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 However, the brothel later complained that Kissin had not yet come round with the champagne. Security Service Archives.

36
 Security Service Archives.

37
 Security Service Archives.

38
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
pp. 66
,
86
,
114
,
132
,
172
,
194
,
343
,
347
,
385
,
391
.

39
 Pimlott,
Wilson
,
p. 719
.

40
 Security Service Archives. See above,
pp. 415
–
18
.

41
 Security Service Archives.

42
 Security Service Archives.

43
 Haines, Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 128
. Wilson clearly did not believe Wigg's claim that the Labour MP Harold Davies was behind the press attacks on Marcia Williams; Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 122
.

44
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 87
.

45
 See above,
pp. 531
–
2
.

46
 Security Service Archives.

47
 Security Service Archives.

48
 Security Service Archives.

49
 Security Service Archives.

50
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 207
. Donoughue added acerbically, ‘In the Labour Party that is quite an achievement.'

51
 Security Service Archives. At the CPGB's bugged HQ, Ramelson had been overheard saying ‘that he was convinced Hayward was a genuine militant left-winger who recognised the role of the Communist Party inside the Trade Union Movement and who, basically, was for unity with the CPGB, although conscious of the problems involved in pursuing this aim.' Security Service Archives.

52
 See above,
p. 516
.

53
 Security Service Archives.

54
 Security Service Archives.

55
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 224
.

56
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
pp. 477
–
8
.

57
 Recollections of Sir Michael Hanley.

58
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
pp. 11
,
13
. Cf. Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 473
.

59
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 475
.

60
 Andrew,
For the President's Eyes Only
, ch. 10.

61
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 669
. On another occasion Wilson claimed on what Donoughue described as ‘no evidence' that the former Labour MP Maurice Foley was ‘paid by the CIA'; ibid.,
p. 640
.

62
 Thorpe and his former friend John Holmes were found not guilty of involvement in the assassination at their trial in 1979.

63
 Freeman and Penrose,
Rinkagate
, chs 12, 13.

64
 Ibid.,
p. 377
.

65
 See above,
p. 633
.

66
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 677
.

67
 Winter's own accounts of his activities are unreliable. Freeman and Penrose describe him as ‘an unscrupulous man who would do and say anything for money', ‘a fool as well as a crook'. Freeman and Penrose,
Rinkagate
,
pp. 178
–
84
,
203
–
4
.

68
 Security Service Archives.

69
 Hooper passed on Wilson's comments to the Security Service. Security Service Archives.

70
 Freeman and Penrose,
Rinkagate
,
p. 182
.

71
 JIC (A) (72) (Sec) 179 (preserved within TNA CAB 187/19). Donoughue noted on 10 March 1976: ‘H[arold] W[ilson] saw Hooper – a senior intelligence man who has been looking into the South African connection.' Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 689
.

72
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 678
.

73
 Ibid.,
p. 688
.

74
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 479
. The Intelligence Co-ordinator seems to have been unimpressed by Wilson's evidence of South African involvement. Security Service Archives.

75
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
pp. 486
–
7
.

76
 Ibid.,
pp. 477
–
8
.

77
 Morgan,
Callaghan
,
p. 610
.

78
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
,
p. 670
.

79
 Ibid.,
pp. 656
–
7
.

80
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 500
.

81
 Ibid.,
pp. 477
–
8
.

82
 Wilson's words were quoted in the
Observer
on 28 August 1977.

83
 Security Service Archives. The DG privately acknowledged that the submission on which Wilson's briefing was based was ‘inadequate'.

84
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 490
.

85
 Ibid.,
p. 494
.

86
 Penrose and Courtiour,
Pencourt File
,
p. 13
. Freeman and Penrose,
Rinkagate
,
pp. 242
–
5
. On another occasion Wilson startled a Northern Ireland official by inviting him to ‘ring the number of a callbox in the Mile End Road at a certain time when a certain person would be waiting to give him information he might need to hear'. Hennessy,
Prime Minister
,
p. 572
.

87
 Freeman and Penrose,
Rinkagate
,
pp. 274
–
5
.

88
 Ibid.,
pp. 273
–
81
.

89
 Security Service Archives.

90
 Security Service Archives.

91
 Security Service Archives.

92
 Morgan,
Callaghan
,
pp. 610
–
11
.

93
 Security Service Archives.

94
 Security Service Archives. Wallace also alleged that there had been a deliberate campaign to discredit Wilson; Ziegler,
Wilson
,
p. 477
. The pro-Wallace case is put in Foot,
Who Framed Colin Wallace?

95
 Holroyd makes his allegations in Holroyd and Burbridge,
War without Honour
.

96
 Security Service Archives. Hain suspected South African intelligence of plotting against him: ‘If so, were they working with a section of MI5 as part of a much wider project to destabilize Harold Wilson's Labour Government and restructure British politics?' Hain,
Putney Plot?
,
pp. 137
–
54
.

97
 Peter Wright, interviewed by John Ware on
Panorama
, BBC1, 13 Oct. 1988. See above,
p. 518
.

98
 Ziegler,
Wilson
,
pp. 476
–
7
.

99
 Security Service Archives.

100
 Rimington,
Open Secret
,
p. 190
.

Chapter 5: Counter-Terrorism and Protective Security in the Later 1970s

1
 Security Service Archives.

2
 McGladdery,
Provisional IRA in England
,
pp. 102
–
4
. The Security Service file on the Balcombe Street siege contains no indication that the Security Service provided significant support to the Met in bringing the siege to an end.

3
 Security Service Archives.

4
 Security Service Archives.

5
 
Parl. Deb. (Commons)
, 25 March 1976, col. 647.

6
 Security Service Archives.

7
 Security Service Archives.

8
 Security Service Archives.

9
 Security Service Archives.

10
 See above,
pp. 604
–
5
.

11
 Security Service Archives.

12
 Security Service Archives.

13
 Security Service Archives.

14
 Security Service Archives.

15
 Donoughue wrote on 17 February 1977: ‘How “responsible” is it not to have a long-term policy?' Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, vol. 2,
p. 149
.

16
 Security Service Archives. It was noted in 1978 that, for earlier entrants, ‘We have to rely on volunteers and cannot order a staff officer to serve there [Northern Ireland]. At the moment we have only five volunteers, two of whom are unwilling to go until the latter part of this year.' Security Service Archives.

17
 Security Service Archives. See above,
p. 603
.

18
 Security Service Archives. FX Branch was originally to be called FZ. Its name was changed because of the fear that, in handwritten form, FZ might be confused with F2.

19
 Initially F Branch included Sections F1, F2 and F3, while Sections F4, F5 and F6 belonged to FX Branch. Security Service Archives.

20
 Security Service Archives.

21
 Security Service Archives.

22
 Security Service Archives.

23
 Security Service Archives. The main exceptions were Iraqis, Libyans and the staff of Middle Eastern embassies in London.

24
 Donoughue,
Downing Street Diary
, vol. 2,
p. 248
.

25
 Security Service Archives.

26
 Security Service Archives.

27
 Andrew and Mitrokhin,
Mitrokhin Archive
,
pp. 506
–
8
. Andrew and Mitrokhin,
Mitrokhin Archive II
,
p. 255
.

28
 Security Service Archives.

29
 The last PIRA mainland killing of the 1970s was of a passer-by killed by a bomb placed outside the London home of the Conservative MP Hugh Fraser on 22 October 1975.

30
 Statistics in Bew and Gillespie,
Northern Ireland
. ‘Deaths arising from the Troubles' were as follows: 1974 – 220; 1975 – 275; 1976 – 297; 1977 – 112; 1978 – 81; 1979 – 113.

31
 Anderson,
Cahill
,
pp. 314
–
15
.

32
 Security Service Archives.

33
 Taylor,
Provos
,
p. 210
.

34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 Security Service Archives.

36
 Security Service Archives.

37
 Security Service Archives.

38
 Security Service Archives.

39
 Security Service Archives.

40
 Security Service Archives.

41
 The British Minister to NATO, Paul Holmer, had been selected as a PIRA target after plans to assassinate the ambassador to NATO, Sir John Killick, fell through. Security Service Archives.

42
 Security Service Archives.

43
 Security Service Archives.

44
 Coogan,
IRA
,
pp. 467
–
8
.

45
 Security Service Archives.

46
 The Service discounted later press reports that Lord Mountbatten had been warned not to go to Ireland earlier in the summer by Sir Maurice Oldfield, former Chief of SIS. Security Service Archives.

47
 English,
Armed Struggle
,
pp. 219
–
21
,
224
.

48
 Security Service Archives.

49
 Security Service Archives.

50
 Security Service Archives.

51
 Security Service Archives.

52
 Security Service Archives.

53
 Security Service Archives.