Blog The BBC finally admits that MI5 secretly vetted its employees

Most of us probably suspected as much over the years but the BBC has finally come clean.
MI5 vetting of journalists and broadcasters right up to 1990 proves to be factual and can no longer to be written off "conspiracy theory"

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’

A memo from 1984 gives a run-down of organisations on the banned list. On the left, there were the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Militant Tendency. By this stage there were also concerns about movements on the right - the National Front and the British National Party.

A banned applicant did not need to be a member of these organisations - association was enough.

If MI5 found something against a candidate, it made one of three "assessments" in a kind of league table:

• Category "A" stated: "The Security Service advises that the candidate should not be employed in a post offering direct opportunity to influence broadcast material for a subversive purpose."
• Category "B" was less restrictive. The Security Service "advised" against employment "unless it is decided that other considerations are overriding".
• Category "C" stated that the information against a candidate should not "necessarily debar" them but the BBC "may prefer to make other arrangements" if the post offered "exceptional opportunity" for subversive activity.

The BBC procedure was in principle never to employ someone in Category "A", though a few did get through the net. This contradicted its public position that the BBC controlled all appointments. In theory it did. In practice it gave that choice to MI5 in Category "A" cases.

No doubt similar behaviour is still at play in the vetting of the smiling faces of media today,
but now when people scoff and refer to such notions as "conspiracy theory" you can ask
whether they would have also called it a "conspiracy theory" if you had claimed this in 1990!

The BBC finally admits that MI5 secretly vetted its employees, an open secret for generations

MI5 vetted thousands of BBC staff to keep ‘evil’ and ‘subversive’ lefties out

Clarion: MI5 secretly controls hiring firing BBC staff, Observer 18 August 1985

 

[Deleted member 1106]

From saville to their endless war mongering, the BBC is a sinister organisation.
I feel sorry for the ordinary English folk as their national broadcaster despises them.

 

[Deleted member 1106]

mi5 was doing the same job for the Irish Times in the 70s and 80s.
The media in Ireland and the UK are nothing but the mouthpieces of British intelligence.

 

[Deleted member 685]

mi5 was doing the same job for the Irish Times in the 70s and 80s.
The media in Ireland and the UK are nothing but the mouthpieces of British intelligence.

I have very little doubt that you don't get to work for RTÉ without MI5 approval.

 

[The Potato Mystic]

I don't think MI5 is vetting BBC employees as much as the BBC itself is an outgrowth of British intelligence. British broadcasting is war propaganda for the British Empire that was never actually stood down.

 

[Deleted member 685]

I don't think MI5 is vetting BBC employees as much as the BBC itself is an outgrowth of British intelligence. British broadcasting is war propaganda for the British Empire that was never actually stood down.

I remember John Snow saying in an interview that once you get to a certain level in the British media you get an invitation to work for the secret services. He said he refused the invitation himself.

 

[The Potato Mystic]

I remember John Snow saying in an interview that once you get to a certain level in the British media you get an invitation to work for the secret services. He said he refused the invitation himself.

Anyone in BBC News might as well wear MI5/6 emblazoned baseball caps. That's their big nest.

Journalists are the main target. And outfits like Reuters are basically spook fronts stretching right back to before duh war.

 

[Dublin 4]

There is an Intelligence war between the Anglo Saxon English & the Norman Ziomatrix.

Fux ake - anyone who doubts that, just has to inquire a little harder.

The English have won on all the smart fronts & lost on all the dumb fronts

That's them

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[Dublin 4]

John Snow

Big Pro United Irelander but only in an Afro-Slavic anti Gaelic way, still it's irredentism I suppose...

 

[RedFusion]

When will MI6 admit that they have vetted and handled the current Irish government?

 

[Deleted member 1918]

When will MI6 admit that they have vetted and handled the current Irish government?

great comment! u cheered me up this morning - maith thu.

 

[Myles O'Reilly]

Ah I see it now. Cheers.