[…] missing diplomats’. And Shakespeare devotes a chapter to it. He writes: Bond was born out of a turmoil at a moment when the (Guy) Burgess and (Donald) Maclean story was still unsolved. The news of their disappearance was a seismic event for Ian. He created a contemporary novel hero in the tradition of Drake, […]
[…] missing diplomats’. And Shakespeare devotes a chapter to it. He writes: Bond was born out of a turmoil at a moment when the (Guy) Burgess and (Donald) Maclean story was still unsolved. The news of their disappearance was a seismic event for Ian. He created a contemporary novel hero in the tradition of Drake, […]
[PDF file]: […] Dundonald – in Ayrshire, rather than the grass airstrip near the Duke’s residence of Dungavel House – fits a well-known first-hand account of the crash landing. Hector MacLean was a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot who had lost a leg when shot down in 1940. On 10 May 1941, he was the fighter commander […]
[PDF file]: […] CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and Maclean defections to the USSR in 1951, as a result of his friendship with Burgess. He was rehired as a part-timer while working as a Middle Eastern […]
[PDF file]: Brexit: cock-up or conspiracy? Bartholomew Steer After reviewing the Nancy MacLean book Democracy in Chains,1 it is apparent that the conspiratorial script of the radical right is the same across the world. – shrink the state/‘Starve the Beast’;2 – the introduction of constitutional barriers preventing democratic forces in one or more countries damaging multinational […]
[PDF file]: […] Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr Hanley (presumably Michael Hanley, some time Director-General of MI5) (Colonel) Maclean (probably ‘Billy’ Maclean 8) Admiral Sir Ian Hogg Major Alexander Greenwood Mr Meyer, an American (probably Herb Meyer, CIA officer9) David Hart The threat Remember this […]
[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, because […]
[PDF file]: […] the Communists in power in Yugoslavia would be one of the greatest achievements of the Cambridge spies, arguably putting the achievements of the likes of Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt and Cairncross in the shade. Certainly, he and others highlighted intelligence that showed the Partisans in the best light and ‘either suppressed other intelligence more […]
[PDF file]: […] were not privy to the recordings? Initially Tate takes the reader on a journey through the post-WW2 history of Soviet espionage in the UK: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Blunt etc. This is the necessary background to Peter Wright’s obsessive hunt for Soviet ‘moles’. Tate then steers us through two big events. The first is […]
[PDF file]: […] been properly considered by Davies. Nor has he considered that the influence of John C Calhoun11 on neo-liberal theorists and politicians has never been greater (as Nancy MacLean explained in Democracy in Chains12) and is being played out in politics today. (Calhoun was the architect of the Civil War in America, whose repercussions still […]
