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... Soviets utilize this embarrassment factor and to some extent orchestrate the political fallout over a thirty year period? And did they depend on a predictable British reaction, the cover-up, to self-inflict longer term political damage? Some sections of the British right seemed to believe so. Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951 after Maclean was pinpointed by a Venona decryption as agent Homer. Burgess didn't have to go with him, he wasn't suspected. Burgess's defection then threw suspicion on Philby, however. In an injuncted book some years ago,The Last ...
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... Anthony Blunt said that "Rothschild himself is known among the cognoscenti as the First Man." (5). Auberon Waugh in the Spectator (14 June 1980) had written a half-serious article titled 'Lord Rothschild is Innocent'. Revealing the links between Blunt, Burgess and Rothschild, Waugh added, with tongue in cheek: "Any suggestion which might be implied that Lord Rothschild could even have been under suspicion by MI5 as a Soviet agent or witting concealer of Soviet agents is so preposterous as to belong to the world of ...
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... communists from MI5 (p. 124) 'There is another pointer to Hollis's collusion with the Communist Party' (p. 124) 'Hollis also took the view, it seems' (p. 125) 'Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess...' (p. 129) 'Must have been clear to Hollis' (p. 140) 'Hollis would clearly have agreed (p. 144) The next chapter, 'The Great Mole Hunt- From Burgess and Maclean to Spycatcher', turgidly ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 26) December 1993 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 26 Deadly Illusions the first book from the KGB archives John Costello and Oleg Tsarev Century, London, 1993 Yet another reheat of the interminable stew of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean et al, this time spiced up with material from the KGB archives. Yes, the KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today.... today it certainly makes a striking contrast with dear, declining Britain, where MP's may not ...
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... into Diana's death;( [7]) while in the evening the final episode of series four of Spooks (BBC1) included a convincing explanation of how MI5 could have engineered the crash.( [8]) The coroner On 18 December 2003, Michael Burgess, H.M. Coroner for Surrey, confirmed that inquests on Diana and Dodi would open on 6 January 2004: Diana's inquest was to be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in the morning, with Burgess acting as the Coroner of The Queen's Household; ...
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... , Commander E.A. Cole, recently spent three months in America consulting FBI officials in putting finishing touches to the plan....The Special Branch began compiling a 'Black Book' of known perverts in influential government jobs after the disappearance of the diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who were known to have pervert associates. Now comes the difficult task of side-tracking these men into less important jobs- or putting them behind bars. This article certainly explains why Special Branch were involved with the investigation of the case, though at the time ...
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... , who was shot dead in mysterious circumstances in Cairo in 1976, was an MI6 officer working in Ireland under cover as a Sunday Times journalist. He was a close friend of Sir Frank Howard Smith with whom he served in Washington at the time of the Guy Burgess defection. Smith was a career MI6 officer who served as UK civil representative in Northern Ireland from 1970, and who set up the contemporary British intelligence system in Ireland. He was head of MI5, retiring in June, 1981. It may be relevant that ...
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... unavailable because of Kim Philby's involvement in the planning of the Albanian operation. The spectre of 'national security' is raised, but as usual it is just another red herring. There are many files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to see in the National Archives. Philby was definitely responsible for blowing some of the ...
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... risk per se but a risk of becoming a risk, as it were. Lord Jellicoe, then a Home Officer Minister, wrote of Bethell: 'In my view the odds are a million to one against Bethell being a security risk in the sense that Maclean and Burgess and Philby were. But I think there may be a chance that he is a security risk in the sense that information, which he may pick up as a junior Minister, could filter back to friends or contacts against whom there is a legitimate question mark ...
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... and how widely they are willing to release their newsletter is unclear. The first issue is rather good, containing a survey of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, M5 4WT, UK, to whom inquiries should be addressed. Freedom Research is an ...
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