[…] reviews are welcome from any source, and I’m glad to see this didn’t recycle the story put about by USIS people that Lobster was some kind of KGB operation, it is worth noting the following. Lobster’s circulation is 1000 not 50. There has only been one ‘British eccentric’ involved for over five years. It […]
[…] 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 […]
During the current farcical trial of Ali Agca a most interesting snippet appeared in the press which looks like finally seeing off the alleged ‘Bulgarian connection.’ Signor Giovanni Pandico, a jailed former member of the upper echelons of the Naples-based Camorra, claimed that it had played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role […]
[…] Department 4 of the Central Directorate – otherwise known as the Domestic Wet Operations Division of the CIA.’ ‘Wet operations’ used to the euphemism used by the KGB for assassination. Do we really believe the CIA uses the same euphemism? Do we believe the CIA has anything named anything remotely like that? It might […]
[…] are running. Over at the Reader’s Digest Edward J. Epstein’s preposterous book Legend is about to be published, reaffirming the Warren Commission’s central findings — with a KGB twist added. The CIA have another disinformation hare running, a faked document purporting to be a CIA internal memo from 1966 which refers to Hunt being […]
[…] kept warm since the late 1970s when it was put together by anti-communists seeking ways of keeping the Soviet ‘threat’ alive under conditions of détente (the world–terror–sponsored–by–the– KGB thesis) and by Israeli propagandists looking for sticks with which to beat the Palestinians. And since then this ‘threat’ has worked a treat, ramifying and multiplying […]
[…] Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of those days, the belief in the all-conquering guile of the KGB…… Leo Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House […]
