[…] 1948-1977 (10) (See review in Lobster 37) chapter 16. The other is a section of chapter 10 of Alistair McAlpine’s memoir Once a Jolly Bagman.(11) 2: the KGB shot the Pope One of the most successful major scale disinformation projects since Lobster was begun has been the KGB-shot-the-Pope story created by Brian Crozier’s chums […]
[…] Russian historian, and Timothy Naftali, a ‘fellow in International Security Studies’ at Yale. It’s mainly about the Cuban Missile Crisis, drawing on what are described as declassified KGB and other Soviet intelligence materials. The Nation review was generally favourable, with the exception of references to a chapter entitled ‘Dallas and Moscow’ – ‘… according […]
[…] Cypher School (now GCHQ) during the war. There is now enough material around for a good book on GCHQ and its history. Who’s going to write it? KGB Today: The Hidden Hand John Barron (Coronet 1985) John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand is now available in paperback (Coronet 1985). Chapman Pincher in Too […]
[…] together with a paragraph from the Metrokhin material, not included in the book, The Mitrokhin Archive, co-authored with Christopher Andrew. That paragraph, allegedly from notes made by KGB archivist Mitrokhin, reads: ‘Disinformation Operations of the KGB through Paese Sera…… In 1967, Department A of the First Chief Directorate conducted a series of disinformation operations…… […]
[…] book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war era. Briefly, Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected to the Americans just after JFK’s assassination, having been in contact with the CIA before it. All defectors were treated with suspicion because […]
[…] East and West. It is the military potential of this area which is scary. Item 1: Microwave News (November/December 1989) carried this short report on p14. ‘The KGB signal…Boris Yeltsin, the populist politician who swings in and out of favour in the Soviet Union, has told a reporter that the KGB has an ELF […]
[…] Clinton administration, the former coming up with nothing more precise than ‘as many as 25’. Gordievsky and his emanuensis Instructions From The Centre: Top Secret Files On KGB Foreign Operations 1975-85 (Christopher Andrews and Oleg Gordievsky, Sceptre, London, 1993)) is mildly interesting, chiefly for showing how incompetent the KGB was. It is curious that […]
[…] be exaggerated. Which is why I have returned to this subject again. MI5 and the Labour Party The Sunday Times,18 February 1996, ran a long story about KGB – and MI5 – attempts to recruit Betty Boothroyd, now Speaker of the House of Commons, thirty years ago. In 1965 Betty Boothroyd worked as the […]
[…] of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 […]
[…] isn’t very convincing – not in any obvious sense, at least. After 1951, Philby worked as a stringer for the Observer and the Economist, and for the KGB and SIS as an agent – hardly positions of influence to rival that of his previous employment as the head of SIS’s anti-Soviet desk and liaison […]
