[…] 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/ […]
[…] the evidence he adduces does not amount to conclusive proof, he makes an overwhelming case for rejecting the assumption that it was an Englishman who persuaded Burgess, Philby and Blunt to work for the Soviet Union. The author is an historical detective with a wide knowledge of philosophy, who excels at tracing the threads […]
[…] Sean Gabb, anon in Dubai and Simon Matthews for cuttings and other information. Morris Riley – an apology In Lobster 37 (p. 47) I said his book, Philby: the Hidden Years, had been ‘published without anyone looking at the final typeset copy’. This is false. I failed to notice the publisher’s explanation for the […]
C. Gordon Tether Mike Peters in Lobster 32 mentioned a book – actually, a pamphlet – called The Banned Articles of C. Gordon Tether (ISBN 0905821009) in which Tether had published those items written for his Financial Times column which the editor had seen fit to pull. Not having looked at it for about a […]
Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close […]
See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and […]
[…] an avid reader of all things political and para-political, including Lobster, and a great correspondent. He would regularly send me copies of letters he had from Kim Philby, J.B.S. Haldane, Graham Greene, Ivor Montague, and others from the murky world of spooks and traitors. He clearly loved every minute of his post-war life with […]
[…] See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special was non-existent. This was something of a disappointment to one […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] States into Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland as agents and would-be saboteurs. Most were immediately captured, partly — but not exclusively — through the activities of Kim Philby. The authors have chapters on “The Philby Connection’ and Klaus Barbie and the “American connection’, but, largely rehashing the work of Costello, Cave Brown, Pincher, David […]
