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Conservative Party donors and the battle for offshore oil claimed by Venezuela
by MOLLY ANTIGONE HALL | 8 December 2020
TAGGED: Guyana, Venezuela
UK attempts to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro may be linked to British oil interests in neighbouring Guyana where UK companies stand to profit from offshore oil-rich Essequibo, a territory that is claimed by Venezuela.
Britain sent Saudi Arabia thousands of spare parts for warplanes amid arms embargo
by PHIL MILLER | 3 December 2020
TAGGED: BAE Systems, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
The UK military supplied 2,323 spare parts for Tornado fighter jets to an arms company in Saudi Arabia last year, despite a court order against exporting weapons for use in the Yemen war, Declassified UK has found.
Exclusive: Declassified UK blacklisted by GCHQ, Britain’s largest intelligence agency
by DCUK STAFF | 1 December 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ
Internal emails from GCHQ show the organisation decided it ‘will not be engaging further’ with Matt Kennard, Declassified’s head of investigations, the day he published what the agency privately disparaged as a ‘negative long-read’ about its secretive schools programme.
British spy agency refuses to acknowledge its bases in Gulf dictatorship
by PHIL MILLER | 30 November 2020
TAGGED: GCHQ, Oman
Britain’s largest intelligence agency, GCHQ, is refusing to publish details of its bases in Oman, where it is believed to operate three surveillance sites.
REVEALED: The UK military’s overseas base network involves 145 sites in 42 countries
by PHIL MILLER | 24 November 2020
Saudi pilot killed in Yemen was trained by Britain, minister admits
by PHIL MILLER | 19 November 2020
TAGGED: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
A Saudi air force officer who crashed while undertaking ‘operational tasks’ over Yemen was taught to fly by Britain’s Royal Air Force and arms corporation BAE Systems, the UK government has confirmed.
Revealed: British mercenaries linked to brutal crackdown on left-wing activists in Sri Lanka
by PHIL MILLER | 18 November 2020
TAGGED: Keenie Meenie Services, Sri Lanka
A British mercenary kept working at Sri Lanka’s military headquarters in the late 1980s during a bloody crackdown on left-wing activists from the country’s Sinhalese majority, new evidence obtained by Declassified UK reveals.
MI6 has a long history of being a law unto itself
by RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR | 13 November 2020
TAGGED: MI6
After Declassified UK’s revelation that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), known as MI6, ‘misled’ two inquiries into the arrest of a suspected British terrorist in Kenya, Richard Norton-Taylor outlines the long history of MI6 operating outside of democratic control.
Revealed: MI6 ‘misled’ two inquiries into arrest of Lee Rigby’s killer
by NAMIR SHABIBI | 12 November 2020
TAGGED: Kenya, MI6, terrorism
Three intelligence officers tell Declassified UK that Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, tracked and arranged the arrest of Michael Adebolajo in Kenya, contradicting MI6’s testimony to two intelligence oversight reviews.