[…] a ‘personal chair’ at Cambridge University, wrote KGB:The Inside Story (Hodder and Stoughton, 1990). The book is part of the British secret state’s propaganda campaign around the KGB defector Oleg Gordiefsky. Gordiefsky’s public role, the quid pro quo for the pension he is now receiving, is to bolster the key myth of MI6, that […]
[…] and particularly to Warsaw Pact countries. This may be one of the facts which so worried MI5. One is forced to ask, therefore, what action would the KGB take if they had evidence of some theoretical indiscretion on the part of a British prime minister. There could be no consideration of approaching the PM […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of […]
An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as ‘the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy’ for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome’s work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, […]
[…] old, reliable, NYT, still in there, still muddying the waters 26 years later. Angleton’s paranoia about the Soviet Union was amplified grotesquely by his encounter with the KGB defector Golitsyn, and his fantastic conspiracy theories about the global schemes of the KGB. (These are elegantly rubbished by Gordon Brook-Shepherd in his The Storm Birds: […]
