[…] developed in the 1970s, notably by the Israelis, who could see the value of being able to label the Palestinians as part of ‘terrorism sponsored by the KGB’. The first conference of the Mossad-sponsored Jonathan Institute, in 1979, centred round this theme.(46) Four months after Reagan’s inauguration, in May 1981, Ali Agca shot the […]
[…] concert with others. Whatever the truth is, it seems likely that Kennedy may have contributed, unwittingly, to his own death. Those who mixed in Oswald’s demi-monde of KGB agents and Cuban exiles…..’ We’ve had supporters of Castro and now he gives us KGB agents! Which ones, Professor? The only KGB agent in the story […]
[…] full-time employee of the CPGB, Gable was an astonishingly credulous partner to whoever it was in MI5 who fed him the baloney about Phil Kelly and the KGB. Somebody capable of recycling that much nonsensical hearsay — and remaining unrepentant about it — is not to be trusted. (8) There aren’t many areas on […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] recommendation and they worked together in Section V (SIS’s See Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev (editors), The Crown Jewels: The British secrets at the heart of the KGB archives (Yale: Yale University Press, 1998), Appendix II. 2 Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). 3 See […]
[…] Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; Crozier’s financial funnel, the International Freedom Fund Establishment. The central chapters for me are those on Britain in the […]
[…] was merely a warm-up for a second Massie/MI5 special – 22nd February 1988, Daily Express, “Labour leader Neil Kinnock is to be offered an MI5 briefing on KGB attempts to infiltrate the Labour Party…. Such a meeting would be on ‘Privy Council terms’ ” – i.e. Kinnock would be unable to discuss its contents […]
[…] Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin – notably the latter, who disappeared without trace – our spooks learned that the KGB […]
[…] the streets when JFK was killed. He claimed he had been an intelligence officer who had been working with Lee Harvey Oswald and been asked by the KGB to kill Oswald to try to derail the assassination plot. (This is the point at which I ceased to believe this tale. No way, José. The […]
