This predates my arrival in the mighty Corps but stinks of bullshit. Opinions?

How Thatcher's election win launched secret war on CND - Home News - UK - The Independent

Reminds me of a story I once read about the activities of the shadowy Hounslow-based 'MI90' in - I think - the News of the World...

cpunk, that must have been when 10 'Sick, Lame and Lazy' Sigs were there, shafted
a few of the good looking Girlies (lying bwasterd) there when stationed with 260 in
Shoeburyness, 10 had the easiest access Virgin Villas in the Corps!

Originally Posted by cpunk

This predates my arrival in the mighty Corps but stinks of bullshit. Opinions?

How Thatcher's election win launched secret war on CND - Home News - UK - The Independent

Reminds me of a story I once read about the activities of the shadowy Hounslow-based 'MI90' in - I think - the News of the World...

My mind is still boggeling after reading that little lot.

Originally Posted by rebel_with_a_cause

My mind is still boggeling after reading that little lot.

Why,the only person to make a verifyable statement was,Stella Rimington which was so ambiguous as to be useless.

If it ain't in black and white it's worthless,and I would just like to say,during this time,as a serving member of HM Forces,I was running a spy ring in Chipping Norton!

Another former soldier of 20 COY, who now lives outside England, told The Independent: "We knew that MI5 and SB [Special Branch] were doing all kinds of things at the time. But the difference is that we were the Army, we were happy to go on undercover ops in Northern Ireland where there was a genuine terrorist threat. It simply wasn't our business to be spying on fellow citizens simply because the government did not like them.

What? Two weeks every summer with 14 Coy or FRU was it?

"Another former soldier of 20 COY, who now lives outside England, told The Independent: "We knew that MI5 and SB [Special Branch] were doing all kinds of things at the time. But the difference is that we were the Army, we were happy to go on undercover ops in Northern Ireland where there was a genuine terrorist threat. It simply wasn't our business to be spying on fellow citizens simply because the government did not like them."

Now I don't claim to know everything that went on in NI, but I'm pretty confident that there were no TA int units conducting Ops in the Province. So it doesn't really help the credibility of the rest of this fantasy.

How long before the book comes out with suitably black nasty photo's?

Originally Posted by RoofRat

Why,the only person to make a verifyable statement was,Stella Rimington which was so ambiguous as to be useless.

If it ain't in black and white it's worthless,and I would just like to say,during this time,as a serving member of HM Forces,I was running a spy ring in Chipping Norton!

I meant that I found it hard to believe that anyone would give any credence to the story, even a desperate journalist.

Originally Posted by old_n_fat

"Another former soldier of 20 COY, who now lives outside England, told The Independent: "We knew that MI5 and SB [Special Branch] were doing all kinds of things at the time. But the difference is that we were the Army, we were happy to go on undercover ops in Northern Ireland where there was a genuine terrorist threat. It simply wasn't our business to be spying on fellow citizens simply because the government did not like them."

Now I don't claim to know everything that went on in NI, but I'm pretty confident that there were no TA int units conducting Ops in the Province. So it doesn't really help the credibility of the rest of this fantasy.

How long before the book comes out with suitably black nasty photo's?

I was at school when this was supposed to be going on, but when I did pitch up a decade or so later it was made very clear to me that the (V) side of the house did not go anywhere near NI. Given the serious nature of the threat back then I can't believe that they ever did. We forget just how much of a Cold War ghetto the INT & Sy Gp (V) used to be. Hell, in those days you'd have been lucky to find anyone with the vetting to even be allowed to read about ongoing ops !

Carol Maychell was locked up at Hampstead as 20 Coy looked for spies in Swiss Cottage. It was in the Observer years ago so it must be true!

Originally Posted by Sir_Sidney_Ruff_Diamond

Carol Maychell was locked up at Hampstead as 20 Coy looked for spies in Swiss Cottage. It was in the Observer years ago so it must be true!

I remember her, I think she set some kind of record for number of MTDs done in her last year with us.