[…] early 1980s about the anti-subversion crowd which had gathered round Brian Crozier and ISC. It is those which should be remembered rather than his uninteresting book about Philby. John McGuffin died in April. I came across McGuffin as the author and distributor of a fascinating e-mail newsletter about Irish politics, Dispatches. McGuffin was the […]
[…] could be accurate: i.e. the best ‘Red Orchestra’ material came from London where long term Soviet agents (in this case John Cairncross) had access to ENIGMA. Cairncross/ Philby etc got the material from ENIGMA and gave it to the Soviets. Because – obscurely – the Soviets didn’t know the details of the origins of […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear of exposure as a onetime NKVD agent with the attendant risk […]
