New Society (31st June 1984) Former MI5 officer Miranda Ingram, who worked with Michael Bettaney, describes working conditions and MI5 philosophy. Boring for her and for us.... Tatler (June 1984) Robert Harris reports on the spy recruitment procedures. There was some talk of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act for naming MI5 and MI6 premises. They are: MI5 recruitment (positive vetting) - 140 Gower St., London WC1 and 14-17 Great Marlborough St., London WC1 MI6 recruitment - 3 Carlton Gardens, London SW1 *** Head of MI6, Sir Colin Figures, KCMG, went to Cambridge before serving in Germany and Vienna. He lists his hobbies as watching sport, gardening, beachcombing, and is 59 years old...MI5 Director is Sir John Lewis Jones.... Thatcher has a new spy chief at No.10. Air Vice-Marshall Basil Lock is Cabinet Security Adviser - known in Whitehall and Pall Mall clubs by the nickname 'Lock-up' - and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5's top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) .... Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who replaced Philip Whitehead, whose connections with intelligence in Ireland go back to the days of Oliver Wright and Howard Smith in the early seventies. Andrew went to Kings College public school, Oxford, and then to the War Office in 1952. After that he was attached to the Foreign Office - i.e. MI6 - and later a posting to Nato in 1971. Then back to the Ministry of Defence before he found himself on the way to Stormont Castle. (Phoenix 5th August 1983)...... Arthur Martin, ex MI5, won substantial damages against the Daily Telegraph for articles that appeared in 1983 alleging that he might know of a KGB mole (Guardian 17th February 1984) .... Peter Hennessey (Times 30th April 1984) lists the Cabinet Office Intelligence Committees. Besides Margaret they are either chaired by Sir Robert Armstrong or Sir Anthony Duff.... Last year adverts appeared in the Northern Ireland press for 'Security Advisers' for an organisation called 23 Security Company at BFPO Box 800. Just as Box 500 is MI5, Box 600 is MI6, Box 800 relates to Military Intelligence. The 'security company' is 23 Company, Intelligence Corps which is attached to the mysterious British Service Security (BSS) - not British Security Service, which is MI5, as printed in the last issue of The Lobster. Useful Addresses Communications Technical Support Office, Milton Keynes, Bucks. (Telex 82196 - Answer back code Tecbuy: ask for Mr P. Mason) - makes MI6
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