[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
