The Defence of the Realm (193 page)

54
 Wood,
Crimes of Loyalty
,
pp. 330
–
31
.

55
 Security Service Archives.

56
 Security Service Archives. Wood,
Crimes of Loyalty
,
p. 329
.

57
 McMahon,
British Spies and Irish Rebels
,
pp. 265
–
7
.

58
 Security Service Archives.

59
 Security Service Archives.

60
 Security Service Archives.

61
 Security Service Archives.

62
 Security Service Archives.

Chapter 6: The Callaghan Government and Subversion

1
 Beckett,
Enemy Within
,
p. 182
.

2
 Security Service Archives.

3
 See above,
pp. 527
–
31
,
535
; below,
pp. 659
,
664
–
5
.

4
 Clarke,
Hope and Glory
,
pp. 352
–
4
.

5
 Security Service Archives.

6
 See below,
p. 711
.

7
 Security Service Archives.

8
 Security Service Archives.

9
 Security Service Archives.

10
 Clarke,
Hope and Glory
,
pp. 349
–
50
.

11
 Security Service Archives.

12
 Security Service Archives.

13
 Security Service Archives.

14
 Security Service Archives.

15
 Security Service Archives.

16
 Security Service Archives.

17
 Beckett,
Enemy Within
,
pp. 182
–
3
.

18
 Security Service Archives.

19
 JIC (A) (71) 16, ‘The Security of the United Kingdom Base in a situation leading to a threat of general war', 23 March 1971, TNA CAB 186/8. I am grateful to Professor Peter Hennessy for this reference.

20
 Security Service Archives.

21
 See above,
pp. 412
–
14
.

22
 McSmith,
Faces of Labour
,
pp. 89
–
90
.

23
 Benn,
Against the Tide
,
pp. 20
–
21
.

24
 Seyd,
Rise and Fall of the Labour Left
,
pp. 50
–
53
. McSmith,
Faces of Labour
,
pp. 101
–
5
.

25
 Security Service Archives.

26
 Security Service Archives.

27
 Security Service Archives.

28
 Morgan,
Callaghan
,
pp. 702
–
3
. While Callaghan was foreign secretary in 1975, the Security Service had been informed that he had been ‘most interested' in a Service report on ‘Trotskyist activities' in his constituency but had minuted that the Trotskyists were ‘all running for cover at present' rather than attacking him. Security Service Archives.

29
 Security Service Archives.

30
 Security Service Archives. Early work in F1A had included investigating constituencies where ‘there are grounds for suspecting that left-wing militants are attempting to remove right-wing Labour MPs'; Security Service Archives.

31
 Security Service Archives.

32
 Security Service Archives.

33
 Security Service Archives.

34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 Beckett,
Enemy Within
,
pp. 185
–
6
.

36
 McSmith,
Faces of Labour
,
p. 106
.

37
 Seyd,
Rise and Fall of the Labour Left
,
pp. 50
–
51
.

38
 McSmith,
Faces of Labour
,
pp. 107
–
8
.

39
 Security Service Archives.

40
 Security Service Archives.

41
 Security Service Archives.

42
 Security Service Archives.

43
 Security Service Archives.

44
 Security Service Archives.

45
 Security Service Archives.

46
 Security Service Archives.

47
 Westlake,
Kinnock
,
p. 316
.

48
 Security Service Archives.

49
 McSmith,
Faces of Labour
,
p. 107
.

50
 Westlake,
Kinnock
,
p. 318n
.

51
 Security Service Archives.

52
 Note of a meeting at Chequers, 26 June 1977, TNA PREM 15/1491, s. B12.

53
 Note by Callaghan on memo sent to him on Grunwick dispute, TNA PREM 16/1491.

54
 Security Service Archives.

55
 Security Service Archives.

56
 ‘August 8 Day of Action Called Off',
Daily Telegraph
, 1 Aug. 1977.

57
 Security Service Archives.

58
 ‘Unions ready for defeat at Grunwick',
Sunday Telegraph
, 11 Sept. 1977.

59
 Security Service Archives.

60
 Security Service Archives.

61
 ‘Up to 104% pay rise needed, police tell Home Office',
The Times
, 27 Aug. 1977.

62
 Denis Healey (Chancellor) to Callaghan, 21 Oct. 1977 (reporting what Rees had told him Police Commissioners said about reaction to a 10 per cent pay rise); Note of a telephone conversation between Prime Minister and Home Secretary, 23 Oct. 1977. TNA PREM 16/1406.

63
 Comments by Callaghan of ‘Final version' of Home Secretary's speech sent to 10 Downing Street on 25 Oct. 1977, TNA PREM 16/1406.

64
 Police Supplement, 4 Nov. 1977; copy in TNA PREM 16/1406.

65
 Security Service Archives.

66
 Security Service Archives.

67
 Security Service Archives.

68
 Security Service Archives.

69
 Security Service Archives.

70
 Security Service Archives.

71
 Morgan,
Callaghan
,
p. 674
.

72
 Security Service Archives.

73
 See below,
p. 681
.

74
 See above,
pp. 579
–
81
,
583
–
4
.

75
 Rimington,
Open Secret
,
p. 95
.

76
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

77
 Security Service Archives.

78
 Security Service Archives.

79
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

80
 See below,
pp. 670
–
72
.

Chapter 7: The Thatcher Government and Subversion

1
 Security Service Archives.

2
 Security Service Archives.

3
 Security Service Archives.

4
 Security Service Archives.

5
 Rothschild was at the time scheming unsuccessfully to become Thatcher's security adviser. He also hoped, in vain, to become the next ‘C'. Rose,
Elusive Rothschild
,
pp. 250
–
51
.

6
 Security Service Archives. When Director F briefed the PUS at the Department of Employment about the work of the unit, both were concerned about its ability to live up to ministerial expectations. Security Service Archives.

7
 Security Service Archives.

8
 Security Service Archives.

9
 Thatcher,
Downing Street Years
,
pp. 116
–
20
.

10
 ‘ “I'm not to blame for Rover” – Red Robbo', BBC Online, 28 March 2000.

11
 Security Service Archives.

12
 Security Service Archives.

13
 Security Service Archives. In March 1980 Deverell sought help in identifying open-source evidence of union militants' membership of subversive organizations, particularly in the civil service unions and the NUM, above all in South Wales where the leadership appeared to be pushing for industrial action for political reasons in the face of clear opposition from the rank and file.

14
 Security Service Archives.

15
 Thatcher,
Downing Street Years
,
p. 267
.

16
 Security Service Archives.

17
 Security Service Archives.

18
 Security Service Archives.

19
 Security Service Archives.

20
 Security Service Archives.

21
 Security Service Archives.

22
 For examples, see Andrew and Gordievsky (eds),
Instructions from the Centre
.

23
 Security Service Archives.

24
 Security Service Archives.

25
 Security Service Archives.

26
 Security Service Archives.

27
 Gordievsky,
Next Stop Execution
,
pp. 277
–
8
.

28
 Security Service Archives.

29
 Security Service Archives. Kent was not, however, always even-handed. In 1983 he praised the
Morning Star
for its ‘steady, honest and generous coverage of the whole disarmament case'. Julian Lewis, ‘When is a Smear Not a Smear?',
Salisbury Review
, Oct. 1984.

30
 Security Service Archives.

31
 Security Service Archives.

32
 Security Service Archives.

33
 Security Service Archives.

34
 Security Service Archives.

35
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

36
 Security Service Archives.

37
 Recollections of a former Security Service officer.

38
 Security Service Archives.

39
 Security Service Archives.

40
 Security Service Archives. Director F noted on 26 June that, though the NUM and Coal Board were due to hold talks in the following week, ‘there was still little room for optimism about the outcome.' Security Service Archives.

41
 See above,
p. 598
. Security Service Archives.

42
 Security Service Archives.

43
 Milne,
Enemy Within
,
pp. 341
–
2
. ‘MI5's Official Secrets',
Observer
, 3 Jan. 1988.

44
 Milne,
Enemy Within
,
p. 342
.

45
 Recollections of Dame Stella Rimington. ‘Unaffiliated subversive' was a ‘special category' which required the approval of an officer with the rank of assistant director or above, defined as ‘UK citizen or foreigner who is not a member of, or sympathetic to, one subversive organisation, but who threatens parliamentary democracy'; Security Service Archives.

46
 Security Service Archives.

47
 Security Service Archives.

48
 Recollections of Dame Stella Rimington.

49
 Milne,
Enemy Within
, ch. 4; a summary of Windsor's libel action appears on the website of his lawyers, Carter-Ruck;
Parl. Deb. (Commons), 12
June 1991.

50
 Recollections of Dame Stella Rimington. Security Service Archives.

51
 Security Service Archives.

52
 Thatcher,
Downing Street Years
,
p. 363
.

53
 Ibid.,
pp. 365
–
8
.

54
 Security Service Archives.

55
 Security Service Archives.

56
 Security Service Archives.

57
 Security Service Archives.

58
 See above,
p. 599
.

59
 Security Service Archives.

60
 Milne,
Enemy Within
,
p. 268
.

61
 Gordievsky,
Next Stop Execution
,
p. 308
.

62
 Security Service Archives.

63
 Security Service Archives.

64
 Security Service Archives. Director FX had reported to the Directors' Meeting on 24 July that Ramelson had a low opinion of the current CPGB industrial organizer and was trying to persuade the Party to ‘extend their influence in the miners' strike'. Security Service Archives.