[…] reputation for physically abusing suspects, especially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and returned three days […]
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, […]
[…] sense of the complete contradiction between the Foreign Office files on Hess (all but one of which were released last year) and documentary evidence found in the KGB and State Department archives. The former adds nothing to our knowledge of the episode: they reveal the prisoner to have been a paranoid wreck of a […]
[…] Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. ‘I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East German intelligence, Markus Wolff; and former head of West German intelligence, Heribert Hellenbroich, to name a single important histo-ical event […]
[…] London; its editor lives in Greenwich. Cold war, disinformation war In the 1980s the Second Cold War was fought partly by disinformation. The U.S. ran the ‘ KGB terror network’ story, through Clare Sterling, with help from the Israelis, messers Crozier and Moss and others, and then the KGB-shot-the-Pope story. Against that the Soviet […]
[…] Sterling (Obituaries in the Guardian 29 June 1996 and Independent 26 June 1996). Author of two books The Time of the Assassins, (Ali Agca, run by the KGB, shot the Pope), and The Terror Network (KGB running world terrorism), which did much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the […]
[…] the United States. He says ‘the decisive blow was struck by…. Ramparts. … which had got its material from the Czechoslovak StB operation on behalf of the KGB.’ Even if this is true — and there is no particular reason to believe it; and Crozier offers none — the point Crozier thinks he is […]
[…] the previously revealed fat ASIO file on Clark going back to the 1950s, was enough for a number of Australian papers to allege that Clark was a KGB agent. The Herald Sun (24 August 1996) ran a front-page story headlined ‘Red Agent?’. The question mark disappeared in the columns which followed as Oleg Gordievsky […]
[…] 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 […]
