[…] widely viewed TV slots and the most influential papers, they could also insist that no opposition views were aired alongside their own. Countless millions were fed ‘ KGB shoots Pope’, while the acquittal of the Bulgarians last March was lucky to hit the back pages. The real plot against the Pope – by Ali […]
[…] Michael Halls who blamed the stress of working for Wilson and Marcia for the early death of her husband; the story that Gaitskell was murdered by the KGB; talk of engineering a split in the Liberal Party over the role of power-sharing with either of the other two parties; talk of engineering a split […]
[…] instance, from what I picked up from a nose-holding skim, Crozier is trying to tell us about a high-placed Soviet mole within the West German government (wow!), KGB control of “world terrorism”,and KGB influence in the West European “peace movement”. Sadly, Crozier has nothing of interest to say on these subjects you couldn’t pick […]
[…] that Oxfam and the Red Cross — and, by implication, many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern incident in which MI6 and the CIA were backing different […]
[…] KOREANS 1954 FO 1955 WEST BERLIN SPYING FOR SOVIETS WITH BRITISH KNOWLEDGE 1959 FO 1960 MECAS MET PHILBY IN BEIRUT PRIOR TO MID EASTERN POSTING 1961 ARRESTED KGB MOLE MARRIED TO MI6 SECRETARY GILLIAN ALLEN BLAKER, SIR PETER (ALLAN RENSHAW) KCMG (1983) PC (83) BORN 4.10.22 NEW COLLEGE OXFORD ‘INFORMED TRADITIONAL MODERATE; STUBBORN IN […]
[…] as corporates from competing hemispheres will require similarly focused sophisticates to counter them. This excludes British/US spooks whose private security companies, give or take a few ex- KGB bods, are all Anglo-Saxon, with personnel institutionalised by specific national agendas, including the commercial. This not only conditions a mind set, which includes belief in racial […]
[…] London. Volume 1 number 3 contained a feature, ‘Espionage after the Cold War’, reports from the proceedings of a conference on 15 November 1991 at which former KGB and former CIA officers spoke together in public for the first time. Among those taking part were former CIA Director William Colby and former KGB General […]
[…] been of some kind of low-level intelligence interest, then he went to the USSR, probably as some kind of false defector organised by Naval Intelligence. When the KGB failed to take the bait he came back to start a new career as a COINTELPRO agent, flirting with Marxism and pro- Cuban activities. (Incidentally, while […]
[…] dilemma: on one hand they were ill at ease with the idea of explaining to the main scientific advisors of the National Security Council (NSC) that the KGB and GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) were researching topics considered in US to be speculative and controversial at best. On the other, they were afraid that the […]
[…] result, had used his super-secret Special Investigation Group to investigate Brandt. The SIG, basically Angleton and a couple of his right-wing cronies, concluded that Brandt was “a KGB agent’. Wright later described the supposed evidence in a letter to Chapman Pincher: “Brandt …… himself is very suspect. In the war, he left Germany and […]
