IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

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· Red Weekly No. 16, 31 August 1973 · p. 8 of the scan · 175 words

The scan: rw-no16-aug-31-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

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NAME. PICKETS GET MORE new head of the Secret Intelligence Service were organised by the British Secret Service. They were part of an operation, so far successful, to cover up the recent reorganisation of the Secret Service.

Traditionally Security Service (formerly M 15) reported to the Home Secretary, who through a junior Minister at the Home Office was responsible for this agency. S.I.S. (sometimes MI6 or DI6) was responsible to the Foreign Secretary through a junior Minister.

This division of the Secret Service had long been proclaimed as part of uniquely British way of solving the age-old problem - how to keep a secret police without letting it grow too powerful.

REORGANISATION But a reorganisation ordered by Edward Heath shortly after he became Prime Minister does away with these checks and balances.

Heath ordered the appointment of a NAME.

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