[…] trace its origins back to a group of spooks, led by James Angleton, who wanted ‘revenge for the notorious Albanian operation which had been compromised by Kim Philby’. At the rear of the book there is a Casolaro chronology in which ‘The Octopus’ is suggested as being involved in almost every major parapolitical event […]
[…] The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It might be bulging with new information; I just don’t know (or care). There are some […]
[PDF file]: […] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of […]
[…] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of […]
[…] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of […]
[…] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of […]
[PDF file]: […] been compiled by 1960 at the latest, to judge by the stated career of an MI6 officer responsible for journalist assets. It may well have come from Philby. Philby worked for The Economist and The Observer in the Middle East until his defection. He had been suggested to The Economist by G.K. Young with […]
[…] it is a comprehensive account which should be included in 104 serious study of these matters. LOBSTER has also been a frequent source of stories related to Philby and the Cambridge spies. Issue#16 has an interesting discussion of the possible role of Lord Rotl1schild in this regard, as seen by tl1e press, and authors […]
[PDF file]: Apocryphylia Simon Matthews Letter of the week! W atching Newsnight or any of the other flagship current affairs programmes, it is striking how little attention is being paid to the possibility of Scottish independence. Coverage of day-to-day politics remains focussed on speculation about the outcome of the 2015 General Election, with a basic assumption that […]
[PDF file]: […] 1943-44. Second is Gertrude Bell – the precursor of T. E. Lawrence, who was stationed in Arabia two years before him (and who worked with St. John Philby – the father of Kim Philby). The third was, somewhat predictably – but still revelatory in the background detail69 – Margaretha Zelle (a.k.a. Mata Hari).70 Unnecessary […]
