[PDF file]: […] include Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine looks West The dissolution of the USSR began on 18 August 1991, following an abortive coup against Gorbachev by Communist Party and KGB elements anxious to preserve the Union. Gorbachev sat it out in his holiday dacha on the Crimea and was back in Moscow six days later. Ironically, […]
[PDF file]: […] withdrawn, and this has happened, in the same case, to several associated files. Ironically, the contents of the file were a copy of one discovered in a KGB archive, which is freely available. It seems clear that what is being protected is less to do with security, but more to do with the official […]
[PDF file]: […] politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an attempt to recreate […]
[PDF file]: […] came from a Soviet disinformation operation.26 This is true. But as Garrick Alder commented: ‘The Permindex story appeared well after an emissary from RFK had met with KGB man Georgi Bolshakov and (through him) told Krushchev that RFK believed that (unnamed) US domestic opponents had killed JFK.27 Also, and more importantly, it appeared well […]
[PDF file]: […] leaked him top secret information about U.S. foreign and military policy. In 1957, during a visit to the Soviet Union, the influential pundit was lured by the KGB into a homosexual ‘honey trap’ and photographed in compromising positions at Moscow’s Grand Hotel. At the urging of his friend and neighbor Frank Wisner, former head […]
[PDF file]: […] Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck’. He was the subject of ‘Revealed: How Sir Thomas Legg the exes axeman lost his wife to a guitar-playing ‘ KGB suspect’ . See also ‘Expenses axeman Sir Thomas Legg “inspired TV’s Judge John Deed love feud plot”’ at asked Sir John Scarlett, retiring chief of MI6 […]
[…] sudden disappearance of civil servants Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both of whom possessed key intelligence secrets. The fact that Maclean was suspected of being a Soviet KGB spy and was about to be arrested by MI-5 was a closely guarded secret and something that Burgess was unaware of. So they must have been […]
[PDF file]: […] she did not intend to suggest that LBJ was behind the assassination. See 29 Probably but not provably putting out the Soviet line at the time. The KGB had been informed in 1966 that Johnson did it. See . Joesten’s book is still available. See . 30 It has been widely reported since 2011 […]
[PDF file]: […] consists of, he describes someone as CIA because they were so named in the 1968 Who’s Who in the CIA, published by East German intelligence (or the KGB). Madsen does not want to acknowledge the book’s provenance and tells us that the book was published in West Berlin. This book is well known enough […]
[PDF file]: The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews London: I B Tauris, 2016, £20, h/b This is a revelatory book that, in its own quiet, understated way, is likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of […]
