[…] ROOM 40 29-51 PROF. OF GERMAN EDINBURGH UNI. 39-43 ‘SECONDED TO FOREIGN OFFICE’ 51-61 PROF. OF GERMAN CAMB. UNI. BURDEN, STEVE GCHQ 1988 SENIOR MAINTENANCE ENGINEER, CHELTENHAM BURGESS, LT-COL. JOHN H.S. MI5 (C) 1970s INTELLIGENCE CORPS 74-76 COMMANDING OFFICER SMIU (N.IRELAND) -77 CO OF DEPOT INTELLIGENCE CORPS ASHFORD, KENT. -80’s NORTHERN IRELAND (MI5) BURNETT, […]
[…] with Foreign Office approval. As part of its brief to identify leaks in Sterling Area exhange controls, the Tangier station reported that ‘a flaming pansy, one Guy Burgess who seems to be in the Foreign Office, has turned up with a boy friend, and has been telling all and sundry in the hotel bar […]
[…] a survey of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University […]
[…] to the Head of Special Branch RUC, at RUC HQ, Belfast, it was commanded in the 70’s by Lt. Col. Brian Dixon and then Lt. Col. John Burgess, both of the Intelligence Corps. These Commanding Officers, with a small staff, controlled a Military Intelligence Officer (MIO) and his assistant, a Field Intelligence NCO (FINCO) […]
[…] is raised, but as usual it is just another red herring. There are many files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to […]
[…] as a Sunday Times journalist. He was a close friend of Sir Frank Howard Smith with whom he served in Washington at the time of the Guy Burgess defection. Smith was a career MI6 officer who served as UK civil representative in Northern Ireland from 1970, and who set up the contemporary British intelligence […]
[…] like a Dame Pressure from the royal household, Mohamed Al Fayed and Number 10 have been cited as reasons behind the decision of the Royal Coroner, Michael Burgess, not to hear the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed. Following a flurry of speculation, the former President of the High […]
[…] Donald Maclean a rising star in his own right was fingered by the U. S. government’s code breakers. Maclean and his too loyal friend Guy Burgess took the ferry to Calais, thence the train to Moscow, leaving Philby implicated, but not convicted, and intelligence services all over the Western world looking over […]
[…] the Thames – there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was in the Careers Section of London’s Evening Standard when […]
[…] Officer Minister, wrote of Bethell: ‘In my view the odds are a million to one against Bethell being a security risk in the sense that Maclean and Burgess and Philby were. But I think there may be a chance that he is a security risk in the sense that information, which he may pick […]
