[…] page 224, he is unaware of – or refrains from mentioning – ISC’s intelligence role. He may not have had time to read Brian Crozier’s memoir Free Agent, but this does not excuse such an omission. Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, […]
[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]
[PDF file]: […] delegate was Bob Edwards, General Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and, from 1955, MP for Bilston. Oleg Gordievsky later claimed that Edwards was a long-standing Soviet agent. Coudenhove-Kalergi never achieved much support in the UK, and apart from Kim Mackay, Bond notes only a few MPs as being followers: Victor Collins, Gordon Lang, […]
[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]
[PDF file]: […] 1984 and 1993 were ruled accidental (or unsolved) but involved individuals with knowledge of the South African-US-Iran arms deals. In 1997 Peter Castleton, a former South African agent, was crushed to death whilst repairing his car shortly before he was expected to testify that Williamson and Wedin were involved in the killing of Palme. […]
[PDF file]: […] Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo p. 371 2 2 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate the Middle […]
[PDF file]: […] in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, for Tate reminds us that Harold Macmillan had Downing […]
