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... 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 Temptation, ...
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... 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 operation ( ...
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... detail, is the way that this increasingly conservative, not to say reactionary, figure, who championed a strong state, had a life-long fascination with secret agents, assassins, revolutionaries and guerrilla fighters. From Sidney Reilly and T. E. Lawrence through to Fitzroy Maclean and Orde Wingate, Churchill enjoyed the company of such men, listening to their stories of secret operations, of murder and mayhem, and narrow escapes. Certainly this reflected a romantic streak in his intellectual make-up, but it also represented a belief that sometimes the ...
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... not a 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 ...
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5. Re: [Issue 48 - 2004/5]
... listed, for example, including historical figures such as 'Parliament Joan' (c1600-1655?) and 'Pickle the Spy' (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators – Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. 'Spooks' are also covered, with almost ninety members of the intelligence community listed. Many of these had other occupations – John Henry Bevan ('intelligence officer and stockbroker'), Maurice James Buckmaster ('intelligence officer and businessman'), Tomas Joseph Harris ...
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... .) Tony Simcox: in SOE in Albania during the war. After the war assisted in hunting down Nazi war criminals until 1947. (Daily Telegraph 10 June 1991) Group Captain John Selby: joined SOE in Cairo and worked as air liaison officer to Fitzroy Maclean and then as station commander in the Middle East. After the war with the BBC with the Overseas Service as director of European programmes. (Daily Telegraph 20 February 1991) Leslie Wood: engineer who ran dirty tricks centres for the SOE. (Daily Telegraph ...
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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 even ...
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... and reported 'he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup'. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a 'CIA source'. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It might be bulging with new information; I just don't know (or care). There are some striking omissions. Not a word on nuclear weapons, for example, and ...
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... 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 regurgitates what has been written by other people about this area, and introduces nothing new of of any substance. After 172 pages of non-starters we meet the chapter 'The Director General of MI5- Spyrnaster or Spy?'. This does ...
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... to the complexities of Western/Libyan relationships from their interest in Lockerbie, the silence was broken by the persistent men of British politics, Tam Dalyell and Sir Teddy Taylor. At some length in the House of Commons in May, they raised their concerns with David Maclean, the Home Office Minister. In the presence of Fletcher's parents the Minister denounced the programme as 'preposterous trash'. While it was also 'obscene', 'offensive', and 'feverish', the adjective used no less than seven times was 'preposterous'.( ...
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