The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

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[PDF file]: […] as he amassed the material that would form the basis for his 1978 Legend:The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, wherein he indicates that Oswald was a KGB agent. Mr Epstein wrote a long piece, ‘Reading Oswald’s Hand’, about his analysis of the Historic Diary manuscript for the magazine Psychology Today in April 1978. […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.22 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written or 21 22 Extracts are at . 7 by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.23 […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.21 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.22 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.21 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.22 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.2 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.3 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

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[PDF file]: […] which he began doing (in an underground public toilet) before he and his wife had even checked in to their hotel. A plan better designed to draw KGB attention can hardly be imagined and such attention was duly forthcoming. This was in the form of an officer who Burgess calls simply ‘Oleg’, who materialised […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

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[PDF file]: […] Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great […]

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[…] Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

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[PDF file]: […] nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, was suspicious; and when a KGB officer, Anatoliy Golitsyn, defected and announced that Goleniewski was a false defector, Angleton’s doubts were confirmed. At which point it all got very strange and very […]

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