[PDF file]: […] in 1956. Courtney was a career naval officer who ran the UK’s infiltration of agents into Latvia and Estonia in the late ‘40s, an operation that Kim Philby destroyed by revealing it to the Soviets. Courtney was a Conservative MP 1959-1966. Both Courtney and Raikes would have been in their seventies when compiling any […]
[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]: […] serious reporting is often a matter of trading information. You often have to give to take. It was part of David Holden’s job to drink with Kim Philby in Beirut, help left-wing Fred Halliday on Saudi Arabian politics and write for the CIA-financed magazine Encounter.18 The book is also unfair, in passing, to Sir […]
[…] serious reporting is often a matter of trading information. You often have to give to take. It was part of David Holden’s job to drink with Kim Philby in Beirut, help left-wing Fred Halliday on Saudi Arabian politics and write for the CIA-financed magazine Encounter.18 The book is also unfair, in passing, to Sir […]
[PDF file]: […] Wright (and others) 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. […]
[PDF file]: […] to be an SIS document, ‘A Proposed Statement to the NTS Leadership’, which, presuming it to be genuine, may have been given to the Soviets by Kim Philby or George Blake. Bower quotes a brief section from the same document. 115 116 Labour Research, January 1961, p. 10. 27 though unproven – the IRIS […]
[PDF file]: […] the course of the evening.14 What was Butler discussing with de Courcy and what did Butler talk about with the Duke of Alba? We aren’t told. Kim Philby noted in his My Silent War (1968) that the Spanish diplomatic bag during the Second World War was regularly accessed ‘. . . and from it […]
[PDF file]: […] of the trade by the covert heroes of the Cold War, the people who had stolen the U.S. atomic secrets, who had worked with the Rosenbergs, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean. To the callow cadets they seemed majestic figures, beyond the reach of mere mortals . . . .’ 26 Washington Station is […]
[PDF file]: […] Head of Counter Espionage in MI5, was responsible for the internment of Maule Ramsay in 1940. Liddell was a friend of Guy Burgess and an associate of Philby, Blunt and other Soviet agents. One wonders if any of these pursued enquiries about Hess via Liddell in May 1941. 61 See . For more on […]
[PDF file]: […] with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German agents in a hut on the Spanish side of the fence. The future Soviet double agent Kim Philby had also recently been in Gibraltar, serving as British counter-intelligence chief in Iberia. The simultaneous presence of Maisky and Sikorski in Gibraltar proved tricky for Mason-Macfarlane.15 […]
