[…] 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 […]
[…] issues a magazine called Counterpoint, devoted to the exposure and analysis of Soviet disinformation. The trail began with the defection of Stanislas Levchenko, a Major in the KGB. He went over to the Americans in 1979, spent a year working with the Readers’ Digest’s John Barron, during which he briefed Barron for his KGB: […]
[…] 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 […]
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, […]
[…] conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book KGB were laughably incompetent, forgeries which would fool no-one and which had zero distribution as far as I know on this country’s left. And their incompetence brings […]
