[…] the eight major TV interviews I gave the commentator always ended up by suggesting that I might still be working for BOSS or the CIA or the KGB. When I handed my Inside BOSS manuscript, and a big bundle of secret BOSS documents to Penguin Books, I dealt with their Editor, Neil Middleton. He’s […]
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted […]
[…] the 1974 government he was positively hostile to Wilson – probably, but not certainly, because he had become infected with MI5’s conspiracy theory about Wilson and the KGB. Wilson believed that Wigg was the source of some of the leaks to the press and hired a private detective to research Wigg. The detective struck […]
[…] is, firstly, a couple of chapters containing the most detailed and condensed information on the post-war dealings of the ultra right outside the files of the CIA, KGB, MI5/6 etc. At one point there is so much talk about the ‘Third Way’ and European unity that you could think you were reading a Downing […]
[…] away your enemy. The ‘terrorist threat’ in general, and this recent anarchist sub-theme, is being presented as a free-floating entity independent of Moscow Gold or control. The KGB line is close to being abandoned. The 1970s in Northern Ireland were really the last time our secret state seriously tried to market the Moscow connection, […]
[…] UN peace keepers! 6. This eventually found its way into one of Jack Higgins’s more preposterous novels, namely Confessional, in which we all presumably root for the KGB hit-man trying to kill the Pope. (Sectarian joke!) 7. The Militants were founded by Davey Payne and John White around the time of Elliot and Fogel’s […]
[…] aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA fired some 400 Soviet experts, on the spurious ground that they were no […]
[…] No wonder the likes of Brian Crozier and the other conspiracy theorists within the NATO intelligence services think that this must all be the work of a KGB plot. (And how frustrating it must be for them to find so little evidence! Crozier et al, suffer from acute, possibly terminal cases of projection. Since […]
[…] Arthur Darling, The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1990, pp. 260-261. ‘Interfering with Civil Society: CIA and KGB Covert Political Action during the Cold War’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-intelligence, Vol. 8 No. 4, Winter 1995, p.434. The CIA and the Marshall Plan, […]
[…] wait long to get their revenge. The following month they broke the story that a cipher clerk in the French diplomatic service, Maurice Abrivard, had been a KGB spy for ten years up to his death in 1984, delivering diplomatic codes and important secrets about the installation of US Pershing missiles in Europe to […]
