[…] 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: […]
[…] that the head of the Soviet equivalent of the TUC, the Soviet All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in the mid 1970s was Alexander Shelepin, a former KGB head?(3) Is it not extremely likely, at the minimum, that Mr Scargill’s colleague, Alain Simone, was a former (?) servant of the Soviet state? In any […]
[…] registration plates, the major was safely brought past the Soviet military check point east of Vienna. Russian long-term intentions were a hard nut to crack and the KGB was a ruthless opponent. There was little doubt as to the immediate post-war Soviet aim of bringing Austria under Communist control. After the 1947 crackdown in […]
[…] associations. The Provisionals dealt with him indirectly through MI6 officer James Allan.(5) In a bizarre twist the Provos became convinced from contacts abroad that he was a KGB agent.(6) Who Is/Was Who Brian McDermott – aged 11, was found in the River Lagan, Sept. 1973, not far from the Kincora home. His body had […]
[…] conclusively backs up Haig’s charge. ‘Text No. 3 is journalist Claire Sterling’s book The Terrorist (sic; Terror) Network, which goes a step further and claims that the KGB is the mastermind behind practically every international terrorist act. ‘Text No. 4 is the same text, aggressively waved in the face of the authors of Text […]
[…] Turner’s column proper will begin in the next issue. It must surely rank as one of the silliest ‘silly season’ stories of all time. The most important KGB defector ever unmasks the ‘spy of the century’ — and it turns out to be a little old lady from suburban Bexleyheath who sells the Morning […]
Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, […]
