[PDF file]: […] West (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005). Liddell, Head of Counter Espionage in MI5, was responsible for the internment of Maule Ramsay in 1940. Liddell was a friend of Guy Burgess and an associate of Philby, Blunt and other Soviet agents. One wonders if any of these pursued enquiries about Hess via Liddell in May 1941. 61 […]
[PDF file]: […] failure.’ (p. 173) As well as the history of histories, there is an interwoven narrative about the various services’ activities; so there is much about WW2 and Burgess and Maclean et al. Every now and then an interesting little snippet pops up. There’s this for example. SIS abandoned Passport Control Office as its cover […]
[PDF file]: […] install the Communists in power in Yugoslavia would be one of the greatest achievements of the Cambridge spies, arguably putting the achievements of the likes of Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt and Cairncross in the shade. Certainly, he and others highlighted intelligence that showed the Partisans in the best light and ‘either suppressed other intelligence […]
[PDF file]: […] Germany. Once the US seized control of the diplomatic initiative in Europe in 1948-1949, proclaiming the existence of a Cold War, and especially after the decamping of Burgess and McLean in 1951, expansive liberal types like Klop were not in vogue. A strong case can be made for him being the most competent intelligence […]
[PDF file]: […] May 2009. HM Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Manufacturing in the UK: Supplementary Analysis, Economics Paper no. 10B (December 2010) figure 1, p. 2 5 Stephen Burgess, ‘Measuring Financial Sector Output and its Contribution to UK GDP’, Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, Q3, 2011, Charts 1 and 2. 6 Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands: […]
