[…] so-called Team B exercise.(6) Then the Soviets were presented as the controllers of international terrorism, enabling the Israelis to label the Palestinians as terrorists, controlled by the KGB. This theme was launched at the Jonathan Institute conference of 1979 in Israel before being taken up by anti-detente groups within the US intelligence community. Yet […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] sources and associate partners world-wide (11) Therefore, the world is being divvied-up among confreres including, say, the CIA in South America, Mossad, or today’s equivalent of the KGB, with each taking, in PR jargon, ‘lead agency status’ in their own areas. ‘Coordination’ will, of course, unravel. It always does. CIA imperatives, much like President […]
[…] by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because it had collaborated with CIA plans to balkanise the former Russian Empire by supporting […]
[…] former CIA officer Melvin Beck, the CIA was trying to photograph it, and the lobby was crawling with spies from as many five different services (FBI, CIA, KGB, GRU and DGI). While one cannot say that Jones’s 1960 visit to Cuba was necessarily a spying mission, the circumstantial evidence suggests that it was. That […]
[…] anarchists whose activities led to the Siege of Sidney Street in London in 1911. This group contained Yakov Peters, later a highly placed figure in the NKVD/ KGB. He was also, apparently, an informer for both Scotland Yard and the Tsarist secret police.(1) There appear to be many other examples of this capacity to […]
[…] that made analog long-distance equipment for export to Soviet bloc countries. Frequently the specifications called for an access port for each channel, which we dubbed the ‘ KGB output.’ Now it turns out that the FBI wants the same thing. Not to be outdone, the NSA played the major role in the development of […]
[…] Billygate incident, when the brother of President Jimmy Carter found himself entangled with Libyan leader Ghadaffi. After working for Haig – and helping Claire Sterling promote the KGB plot to kill the Pope story – Ledeen became a consultant to Reagan’s National Security Council. There he figured importantly in the Iran-Contra scandal through his […]
[…] the Origins of the CIA, Charles Scribner/New York, 1992, pp. 42 – 44, 442 – 448. David Murphy, Sergei Kondrashev, & George Bailey, Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War, Yale University Press/New Haven, 1997, p. 106. Warner p. 3. Quoted in Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar […]
[…] 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 […]
