Just for the historical record, these rather faded cuttings from the Daily Express are just two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam … Read more
[…] husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this period, and that I was one such. For MI5, 1977, the year I left the party, was crucial: as Shayler has stated, they […]
[…] which, it is true, could not be produced in a court of law. But then neither could Solomon’s as she made it clear she was frightened of KGB retaliation.There is a further problem with Solomon’s tale – or, perhaps, with Peter Wright’s telling of it. Wright records her talking to Arthur Martin during her […]
[…] reputation for physically abusing suspects, especially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and returned three days […]
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, […]
[…] sense of the complete contradiction between the Foreign Office files on Hess (all but one of which were released last year) and documentary evidence found in the KGB and State Department archives. The former adds nothing to our knowledge of the episode: they reveal the prisoner to have been a paranoid wreck of a […]
[…] a five-year exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act. (‘Navy Cleared To Use a Sonar System Despite Fears for Whales’ at < www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1010-2002Jul15.html >) Ransome SIS not KGB In in ‘Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet Secret agent?’,(8) Andrew Rosthorn rebutted the charge made by Professor Christopher Andrew, that […]
[…] LIECHTENSTEIN 1947 RETIRED CAIRNCROSS, JOHN 1942 GCHQ EDITOR DEALING WITH AIR INTELLIGENCE 1944 MI6 GERMAN COUNTER INTELLIGENCE. YUGOSLAV AFFAIRS 1945 TREASURY 1952 MOVED TO ROME. SUSPECTED MOLE, KGB LOST INTEREST CALVOCORESSI, PETER (JOHN AMBROSE) B 17.11.12 BALLIOL COLL OXFORD GARRICK l935 BAR 1940 GCHQ ‘ULTRA’ 1945-6 WING COMMR, TRIAL OF MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS NUREMBERG […]
[…] (some discussed in a just-issued revised edition of Manufacturing Consent). I have even discussed its application to conspiracy theories, some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand […]
[…] he had in fact previously served as an intelligence officer for the State Department. Of course the East German Who’s Who may be wrong. But since the KGB are believed to have compiled it, then we can speculate that they assumed Oswald, whilst in Moscow, was in contact with several CIA-linked American citizens. The […]
