Masopher's Mind

Back in the early days of MI5 a lot of very competent women buckled down did their job and kept their mouth shut about what was happening. Maybe Eliza Manning-ham could take a page out of these brave women’s book? MI5 was once a secret agency that worked for the government to keep us safe from threats, spies and saboteurs. Some times MI5 made work for itself and I am sure some of the threats were imagined. When Britain became involved in Northern Ireland then the IRA became a problem for the MI5 and now that Britain became involved in Iraq and Afghanistan people who see this as an attack on Islam become a problem.

Eliza Manning-ham was pretty happy to pretend to chase red ghosts and Irish Catholics but the capacity of her agency to interdict the millions of Pakistani and Somali refugee/citizens as a few among them turn violent is lacking. This is because a) red ghosts and Irish dissidents were both easy and notional and b) red ghosts and Irish threats came from somewhere else. The current threats have lived in London and other cities for decades in communities that didn’t care about Britain and Britain didn’t care about them.

Dame Manning-ham in my estimation is giving the game away, not only are the MI5 complicit in harming individuals for no gain, they are ineffectual at penetrating communities or at the very least keeping an eye out for deviations in the communities core behaviours. I dare not under emphasize that properly functioning communities don’t create threats. Also worth mentioning is that a government that exercises responsible control over its public and its policy does not come into conflicts between the two.

I don’t think Muslims have been recently radicalized. These people were radical and were radicalizing due to anomie in their society and the trouble in the countries they feel more attached to. They have been longing for an excuse to strike out against Western society and in case Dame Manning-ham forgets, Terrorists existed long before 9/11.

I’m not entirely sure what politics she is playing at, but it is clearly a deviation from the public service that the security and intelligence services are known for. She is serving special interests and doing damage to the government and her former comrades in MI5.

Iraq was a bad idea? You don’t need to be privy to special knowledge to know that. It was the job of MI6 to give the government the right intel and the governments job to make the right decision. Commenting on policy notably foreign policy is not the business of MI5. If any comment need be made it is the misidentification and ignorance of the threats posed by badly educated under employed marginalized youth with no one to listen to but violent imams.

MI5 should be poking around in the British society, looking for threats and keeping hush, not sticking its nose into foreign policy and politics.

Regarding the “spy swap of Summer 2010”, an interesting few points raised themselves to me.

Finally a few former cold war spies poked their heads above the parapet, mostly those tied back to the Spy museum in Washington DC. All current spies and think tanks remained quiet, except for a few casual opinions floated by the council on foreign relations. Think tanks deal with official policy rather than unofficial channels of information perhaps. I was regaled by a former KGB director as he let the current FSB officials have a full broadside of his disdain. One could tell that he styles himself one of the “true Cheka” and that he thinks the pretenders in Moskow are unprofessional buffoons. As they rightly would be; the KGB had godlike powers in the Soviet Union. Prime Minister Putin, a former KGB chief, has wisely crippled the agency so that he and his successor can sleep relatively peacefully at nights. The KGB was the breeding ground for Soviet Leaders who came to power with a wealth of dirty secrets and shadowy backers from the military and industry.

Nina L. Khrushcheva the great granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was also contacted by one of the Russian spies. Hardly following in her sires footsteps she is a teacher/advisor on Media and Culture in the United States. She was approached by a “heavily accented” “Richard Murphy” who never once spoke or admitted that he was Russian despite Nina’s insistence that he give up the charade! She too seems to think that the FSB has produced some very poor graduates.

The swap itself happened very quickly arranged by Leon Panetta and the head of the Russian FSB. A plane full of Russian Agents left the states and landed in “spy city” Vienna. Another plane containing 4 Russian turncoats (KGB men and scientists who had spied for MI6 and the CIA) landed and the swap occurred, old spies swapped for new spies.

An Iranian spy story also emerged to less fanfare. Months ago an Iranian Nuclear scientist was reported to be kidnapped when visiting Saudi Arabia. He then turned up in the USA with conflicting stories; half the time saying he was kidnapped the otherhalf of the time saying he was seeking asylum. While the Russian spy scandal was going on he turned up at a Pakistani embassy asking to be taken back to Iran. Lots of beating for you when you get home Shahram! The American “backpackers” who are going on leisurely strolls between a country at war and a country that America has no official ties with were probably lumped in on the deal, even though everyone denies this so far.

Castro emerged from his hospital quarters showing final sparks of communist fervour. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez locked up a few of his critics.

MI6 computer nerd Daniel Houghton who was trying to sell secrets to the (Israelis/Russians) is claiming he was acting under orders from schizophrenia induced “voices” probably wont be getting very far. Unlike the more exotic flavours of the cold war mentioned today, Daniel is just some dumb bastard trying to fuck his former employee for something that the Russians/Israelis probably already know or don’t care about.

It used to be a sexy world, but we all have seen what Daniel Craig does now. James Bond and Jason Bourne don’t use gadgets or have surreptitious, exchanges they have superhuman punch-ups. The spies of old probably do belong in the spy museum.

A gentleman who once worked for the British Foreign intelligence Service, or Secret Intelligence Service, SIS and also know as MI-6 was nabbed trying to sell secrets to a “foreign intelligence agency”. Insiders tell me it was Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service who recently assassinated a Palestinian Hamas leader in Dubai.

Sources report that this man living in council flats!!!With a roommate!!! By the way a council flat is semi free housing that the UK gives to impoverished single mom’s and crippled/retarded citizens. Australian students are sometimes found in council flats as well.

MI6 has come a long way from gentleman spies in Aston Martins or even the lordly nobles in foreign courts. An agent is caught in his council flat for stealing from a friendly agency and selling to Israelis???? WhatWouldJamesBondDo? (WWJD?)

The starting salary for some of the more sexy roles in MI6 start at 20K but other roles…administration etc. are a good deal lower. The British government is in so much debt it wouldn’t surprise me if the secret service got a secret paycut forcing a force of men and women with a lot of data and very little money. Slipping some passports to the CIA or Mossad may seem very tempting when facing poverty.

Here are a few links for posterity.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/03/hougton-mi6-secretas-flatmate-hoxton

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6221R820100303