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Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

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When he was 80, a bunch of us got together to make him a book which we presented to him - it made him furious, he hated that kind of celebration. I wrote a piece that began: "The child in this 80-year-old man is not yet appeased." I didn't think it was very flattering of Alec. I turned quite a corrosive eye on him. And he loved it. When he came to publish the next volume of his memoirs, he asked if he could put the whole piece at the beginning of the book. I felt that I had hit a nerve there. He would agree, though he would never be so frank, that he could attribute a great deal of who he was to his childhood.

The ambiguity of Thatcher's statement allowed the press to have a field day with Oldfield's reputation, safe from the fear of libel action,' Mr Pearce said.Return To Ommadawn was such a joy to make, perhaps I’ll make another one! I love being surrounded by all these acoustic instruments again. It was so lovely to do. I’ve got the hang of it now. The idea of quantizing, making everything perfect, I’m allergic to it now. Which is crazy, as I’d spent years and years perfecting that kind of computer music on things like Light + Shade, but you’ve got to try everything, haven’t you? Moment students yell 'You support genocide!' at Conservative politician who voted against Gaza ceasefire as she speaks to university's politics society John Colin Wallace is a former British member of the Intelligence Corps in Northern Ireland and a psychological warfare specialist. Sir Maurice Oldfield had a philosophy of interrogation, perfected during his rise to the very top of MI6. People, so Britain’s most decorated Cold War spy used to say, are like grapes - “the first pressings are always the best”. Only at the very end of his life would Sir Maurice really know what it meant to be squeezed. Neil agrees, and says that there is still an important role for local newspapers when major events happen in their communities. As an example he talks about his time on the Telegraph and Argus in the days after the Bradford fire. At that time, most of their reporters were from the local area — and some of them had even been at the game and knew people who had died. In this pressure cooker environment, Neil says the entire paper’s staff found reserves of strength and reporting skill that they didn’t know they had. “Everyone on the paper played out their skin covering that story,” he tells me. “Because it was local, and it meant more to them.” He says a similar thing happened after the Manchester Arena bomb in 2017, when staff at the MEN worked themselves into the ground in the days and weeks after the atrocity.

Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Fourth Estate Limited, 2000, p.743. Then he said: "I've never met a real spy." Which I found rather offensive. "Could you possibly introduce me to a real operator?"Chris Ryder claimed in the Sunday Times in 1987 that Oldfield had been involved in an incident at The Highwayman Pub in Comber Co. Down in March 1980:

Called the Miners’ Arms when it was first established in 1828, the hostelry has long been known as the Lathkil Hotel, with an insistence on the use of the old spelling, with a single ‘l’, despite the modern preference by the Ordnance Survey for ‘Lathkill’. Yet that conclusion has not proved the end. Sir Maurice remains implicated in a separate allegation at Kincora Children’s Home in East Belfast where in the Eighties three senior staff were jailed for abusing boys in their care. Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Inquiry continues to look at the claims as part of a wider investigation into Kincora.Keir Starmer pleads for Labour to focus on Israeli hostages and Gaza civilians rather than ceasefire wrangling after he suffered 10 frontbench resignations in huge Commons revolt It took Maurice numerous attempts to get the look right for his official portrait on becoming Cheif of MI In Dulci Jubilo?! It’s funny that it’s seasonal. For Halloween it’s Tubular Bells, and for Christmas it’s In Dulci Jubilo! What did he take from you in terms not only of your personal relationship, but in terms of research? This takes the form of a sundial that bears a dedication to ‘Janet’, who was the daughter of A P Wadsworth, the distinguished editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1944 to his death in 1956.

The conviction was later quashed in the light of new forensic and other evidence that raised serious questions about the dubious nature of the evidence used to convict Wallace initially. The journalist Paul Foot, in his book Who framed Colin Wallace?, suggested that Wallace may have been framed for the killing, possibly to discredit the allegations he was making. This view was similarly expressed by Alex Carlile QC (now Lord Carlile), who later speculated that this may have been the motive not just for the alleged frameup, but also for murder. Then, eve of shoot, the phone goes again: "I'm afraid I'm being rather a nuisance. My wife, Merula, has decided she is not going to come over to California, and I was wondering whether, for want of a better expression, you could find me a piece of fluff?" Oldfield himself joined SIME shortly after being commissioned in April 1943. [9] He was involved in deception operations against the Germans, but later said according to Richard Deacon:The top 10 sexiest sports stars have been REVEALED with Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Anthony Joshua leading the way... but you'll NEVER guess which boxer takes top spot!

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