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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] was a laughing stock, correctly assumed to be so 11 Script at . thoroughly penetrated that it was virtually a branch of the Security Service. As Roger Hollis told the home secretary in 1959, “we the British Communist Party pretty well buttoned up.’ It was more than mere containment, says Cornwell, who ran agents […]
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith
[PDF file]: […] of Theatre Workshop’. As for MacColl, in the 1930s, Special Branch seem to regard him as a serious threat; but MI5 were much more relaxed, with Roger Hollis recommending that he could be ‘left to his plays’. What of Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard […]
Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs by Ian N. Richardson et al
Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR
[PDF file]: […] radio programmes: Tom Mangold’s Ship of Spies broadcast on the BBC World Service in February 2011 and Andrew Marr’s Start the week discussion with Gordon Corera, Rosemary Hollis, Frank Ledwidge and Rory Stewart MP in October 2011. The latter was a ‘safe-hands’ controlled explosion if ever there was one, presumably in preparation for swingeing […]
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock
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Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain
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[PDF file]: […] the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known fronts. The only important news so far has been the confirmation […]
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] Assange by some of the Guardian’s journalists.19 But the material is all worthwhile – even the page in which Robin Whittaker presents Chapman Pincher’s case that Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent. I don’t agree with the thesis but it is interesting to meet it again. On the down side, there’s a jokey tone […]
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[…] Assange by some of the Guardian’s journalists.19 But the material is all worthwhile – even the page in which Robin Whittaker presents Chapman Pincher’s case that Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent. I don’t agree with the thesis but it is interesting to meet it again. On the down side, there’s a jokey tone […]