[…] counter-coup’. (p. 344) 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). […]
[…] suppress this (or was that also marketing bullshit?) — presumably for the handful of pages in which Bristow expresses his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. But that’s about all […]
[…] Smear! by Robert Cecil from the Winter ’92 issue of the Journal of Intelligence and National Security. To quote the biographical material on his book about Guy Burgess, A Divided Life (Bodley Head, London, 1988), Mr Cecil is a former Head of the Cultural Relations Department of the Foreign Office, and war-time intelligence officer. […]
[…] as diverse as Rudolf Hess in Britain, the peace plots of 1940, and black magic circles in South Wales (those three all linked together, incidentally); Blunt and Burgess; Labour Party politicians, war-time diplomacy and the sexual habits of Mrs Simpson and a great many others; the rise of Ian Paisley, Kincora and John McKeague […]
[…] 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 […]
