[…] far too much influence to one individual. The fact was that the German peace plotters were not trusted by Churchill and Eden, let alone by people like Philby. The Canaris group, as Matthews shows, did not offer to stop the war against the USSR, and a nationalist-dominated greater German state hegemonic over most of […]
[…] had spent their working lives in its service. This is, after all, how Helms and Hood counsel us to approach the memoir of the British/Soviet spy Kim Philby: as a product of a foreign intelligence service and a component of its psychological warfare campaigns. So should their and Colby’s memoirs be approached. We now […]
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 […]
[…] Essentially the authors of the document were arguing that the Foreign Office should back the Canaris-German resistance-Vatican proposal. This report had to cross the desk of Kim Philby a Soviet agent before it could be officially circulated to Ministers. Philby duly rejected the document, thus blocking any formal discussion of a peace […]
[…] house, was hauled before the police and explanations had to be hurriedly sent out to the Shah, who, as always, suspected the worst. In the meantime the Philby affair had blown up resulting in several resignations, and Young was recalled at the beginning of 1953 to take over the new post of Director of […]
[…] true, but there is still a great deal more to tell. There have been minor mentions in other books, primarily when dealing with the role of Kim Philby. But, as Cavendish makes plain here, Philby’s role has been greatly exaggerated. Just as in the better known Albanian operations, failure in the Baltic was most […]
[…] its inspiration from Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-European Union. Poland would have become a major power-broker in Europe. Again after WW2, its members became part of British Cold War activities. Philby was important here, working from Istanbul. The Soviets of course were kept well-informed of these developments – Philby used Burgess in London to forward the information. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] agreement between the leadership of NTS and MI6 severing their relationship. (Soviet publications are not famously accurate but this may well be the real thing, delivered by Philby or Blake.) Presumably MI6 funding of the groups ceased and they were left to concentrate on other anti-communist activities. The Americans now had the field to […]
[…] had also not previously surfaced in reports of the destabilizations. In MI6 counter-intelligence, with postings in Berne, Istanbul, London and Beirut, it was Elliott who confronted Kim Philby in Beirut in 1963, sparking Philby’s flight to the Soviet Union. Apart from his Pinay Circle activities Elliott is also a Council Member of the Wilkinson/ […]
