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Paul Rigby Wrote:When Harold Macmillan called in MI5 in 1963 and asked it to bug his office, he thought the whole world was coming apart, writes Stephen Dorrill...
Macmillan felt he could not trust anybody – but turned for counsel to Dick White, director-general of foreign intelligence service MI6.
It is possible that White suggested installing the listening devices in No10 as some kind of insurance policy.
By bugging the Cabinet rooms, Macmillan would also have been able to eavesdrop on his Ministers, the Cabinet Secretary and his senior officials.
Stephen Dorril is author of MI6 – Fifty Years of Special Operations; Smear: Wilson And The Secret State; and Honeytrap, on the Profumo Affair.
Letter: Downing Street bug
The Guardian, Saturday, 24 April 2010, p.45
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/apr/24...street-bug
Quote:Your article on the censorship of Professor Christopher Andrew's authorised history of MI5 (MI5 bugged cabinet room at No 10, says historian, 19 April) raises a number of interesting questions. There is, however, an anomaly. The article suggests Harold Macmillan requested bugs to be installed in Downing Street in July 1963. In fact, at that point, No 10 was still undergoing restoration and Macmillan was living in Admiralty House, where the cabinet also met. Macmillan only moved back in October 1963. Until that point, a bug in No 10 is unlikely to have produced very much valuable intelligence.
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Oh, goodness... This is my first time in this thread. You royal subjects (? Commonwealth'ers) have been having all the fun, haven't you? Quick question, although perhaps I should dig out the facts and check my datelines first, but the picture of that lovely couple prompts me to ask if J. Edna Hoover was ever a guest? It looks as though she would have ... well, never mind.
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Not that I know of Ed but that mental picture leaves much to the imagination as well. He had his little Tolson toy boy to play with.
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I was once shown a picture of J Edna -- all dressed up (if you get my drift). And I understood that one of the Mafia bosses had another one of same G man with her mouth clamped around a certain non Cuban cigar (if you get my drift again).
Quite a horrible picture to imagine.
Let alone look at.
Anyway, J Edna always maintained thereafter that there was no such thing as "organized crime". Strange then how the various Mafia families grew in power throughout his period of tenure at the FBI.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
