[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] some way related to espionage. These rumours were given the proverbial ‘shot in the arm’ with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis’s scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an […]
[PDF file]: […] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]
[…] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]
[…] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]
