David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

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[PDF file]: […] publicly acknowledged their own existence. Shayler (via Machon) details how, during those early meetings with MI6, Tunworth was keen to tell all about the LIFG: ‘The MI6 agent Tunworth admitted his connections with Islamic extremists and Al Qaeda members during a debrief with his MI6 handler, David Watson, in late 1995….’13 Once again here, […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

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[PDF file]: […] probably unrelated to Milteer and his accomplices, but Kennedy’s next visit to Miami on 20 November 1963 passed without an assassination attempt. Two days later, FBI Special Agent (S.A.) Adams, as the author Don Adams then was, was still trying to track down Milteer for questioning when President Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

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[PDF file]: […] the Drug Wars – How Billions of Illegal Dollars Are Washed Through Banks & Businesses (Chicago: Probus, 1992) p. 121; Reuters, February 11, 1992 (testimony of DEA agent Thomas Telles); Albert (see note 12) p. 368; Ron Chepesiuk, The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia’s Cali Drug Cartel (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) p. 104. […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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[PDF file]: […] immediately interned as an enemy alien and subsequently deported to Germany in 1946. Her detection led to the exposure of a German spy in the US codenamed ‘Agent Crown’ (a.k.a. Guenther Rumrich). MI5 passed information about him to the FBI, who duly unearthed his network.1 This led to the first of two major cases: […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

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[PDF file]: […] In other words it is merely undocumented assertions. Some of which are striking. For example on p. 9 he describes the late Donald Chesworth as a Czech agent. If so, he is not worthy of mention in Christopher Andrew’s The Defence of the Realm, as close as we have to an official history of […]

The Atlantic Semantic

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[PDF file]: […] the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These were largely psychological operations to bolster the public perception of a climate of disorganization and impending 1 Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-91, (London: Harper Collins, 1993) p. 147. 2 Brian Crozier, ‘Crozier Disclosures,’ The Times, 8 July 1993. chaos along the lines indicated by […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] McGrath, Knox Cunningham, and Peter Montgomery and others make them relevant to the HIA Inquiry. The second redacted section is on pp. 49/50 and concerns a British agent – i.e. a civilian volunteer, not an intelligence officer – in Northern Ireland, James Miller. Miller gave evidence to the Saville Inquiry but was was identified […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

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[PDF file]: […] supply Saddam Hussein. These agents include the late Stephan Adolphus Kock, a former officer in the Rhodesian Special Air Service, consultant to the Midland Bank and putative agent of both MI5 and Mi6; and Sir John Cuckney, a former MI5 officer. Both died in 2008. The document also describes the actions taken by HMG […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] a favorable antitrust ruling 17 Liddy (see note 16) pp. 320-321. Liddy (see note 16), pp. 324-5; cf. E. Howard Hunt, Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent (London: W. H. Allen, 1975) p. 232. Liddy recounts some of this on video at . 18 19 Nixon, Memoirs (see note 5) p. 677. 7 […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

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[PDF file]: […] the most important of these Russian agents was Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, who had been ‘identified as a paid Soviet agent since the mid-1930s’. (p. 40) For some reason, Bower lets Michael Foot, or agent ‘Boot’ as he was known to Daily Mail readers, off the hook. […]

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