[…] Russian historian, and Timothy Naftali, a ‘fellow in International Security Studies’ at Yale. It’s mainly about the Cuban Missile Crisis, drawing on what are described as declassified KGB and other Soviet intelligence materials. The Nation review was generally favourable, with the exception of references to a chapter entitled ‘Dallas and Moscow’ – ‘… according […]
[…] Soviets were also funding communist parties around the world — including the Communist Party of Great Britain. There really was ‘Moscow Gold’ in there after all, and KGB gold at that. Confirmation of this at the British end came from senior party figure Reuben Falber, who looked after the CP’s accounts from 1958 to […]
[…] be exaggerated. Which is why I have returned to this subject again. MI5 and the Labour Party The Sunday Times,18 February 1996, ran a long story about KGB – and MI5 – attempts to recruit Betty Boothroyd, now Speaker of the House of Commons, thirty years ago. In 1965 Betty Boothroyd worked as the […]
[…] together with a paragraph from the Metrokhin material, not included in the book, The Mitrokhin Archive, co-authored with Christopher Andrew. That paragraph, allegedly from notes made by KGB archivist Mitrokhin, reads: ‘Disinformation Operations of the KGB through Paese Sera…… In 1967, Department A of the First Chief Directorate conducted a series of disinformation operations…… […]
[…] Cypher School (now GCHQ) during the war. There is now enough material around for a good book on GCHQ and its history. Who’s going to write it? KGB Today: The Hidden Hand John Barron (Coronet 1985) John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand is now available in paperback (Coronet 1985). Chapman Pincher in Too […]
[…] book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war era. Briefly, Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected to the Americans just after JFK’s assassination, having been in contact with the CIA before it. All defectors were treated with suspicion because […]
[…] East and West. It is the military potential of this area which is scary. Item 1: Microwave News (November/December 1989) carried this short report on p14. ‘The KGB signal…Boris Yeltsin, the populist politician who swings in and out of favour in the Soviet Union, has told a reporter that the KGB has an ELF […]
[…] Clinton administration, the former coming up with nothing more precise than ‘as many as 25’. Gordievsky and his emanuensis Instructions From The Centre: Top Secret Files On KGB Foreign Operations 1975-85 (Christopher Andrews and Oleg Gordievsky, Sceptre, London, 1993)) is mildly interesting, chiefly for showing how incompetent the KGB was. It is curious that […]
[…] and particularly to Warsaw Pact countries. This may be one of the facts which so worried MI5. One is forced to ask, therefore, what action would the KGB take if they had evidence of some theoretical indiscretion on the part of a British prime minister. There could be no consideration of approaching the PM […]
[…] developed in the 1970s, notably by the Israelis, who could see the value of being able to label the Palestinians as part of ‘terrorism sponsored by the KGB’. The first conference of the Mossad-sponsored Jonathan Institute, in 1979, centred round this theme. (46) Four months after Reagan’s inauguration, in May 1981, Ali Agca shot […]
