[…] these said we don’t know but I think we may presume, as the programme did, that they contained some version of Angleton’s suspicion that Wilson was a KGB agent. These letters must have had some weight in Thatcher’s decision to take the KGB agent nonsense about Wilson to Robert Armstrong, then the Home Office […]
[…] aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA fired some 400 Soviet experts, on the spurious ground that they were no […]
In this article I amplify and update my account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul which appeared in Lobster 37. Since it was written there have been a number of interesting developments – the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car […]
[…] it took on a distinctly bizarre look. Eddowes’ book, November 22nd: How They Killed Kennedy (3) suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald had been replaced by a look-a-like KGB agent when he went to the Soviet Union. (4) Following this to its logical conclusion, Eddowes reportedly spent over $10,000 in October 1981 on legal fees […]
[…] with Alexander Prokhanov and Alexander Nagorny , Anatoly Baranov , Mikhail Delyagin, former advisor to Mikhail Kasyanov, Alexei Kondaurov (head of YUKOS security department, former general of KGB and FSB, State Duma deputy from CPRF), Ilya Ponomarev (former YUKOS CEO, CPRF). In 2002-03, together with Kondaurov–who represented Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Leonid Nevzlin–Surikov, with the […]
[…] the project ‘Victory for Strauss’ using the tactics applied in Great Britain, of major themes such as the communist, extremist subversion of government parties and trade unions, KGB manipulation of terrorism and damage to internal security. The future form of the project will be left to be determined by Crozier with him in a […]
[…] Reader’s Digest article, ‘The Plot to Kill the Pope’, a little later marked the start of a concerted US-based publicity effort to blame the outrage on the KGB through the so-called Bulgarian Connection. (1) The author of the Digest article and many other pieces blaming the rise of international terrorism on the Soviet Union […]
[…] I mean, the perception among students in those days, or the perception of students was that they were likely to be talent spotted and recruited by the KGB, for instance. And therefore some students were put through a kind of sheep-dip to see if the KGB approached them. They were dressed up to look […]
[…] which killed FRELIMO founder Mondlane and ANC member Ruth First were probably the work of their own people; she describes the ANC’s Joe Slovo as a “ KGB Colonel”; and gives a long account of the deterioration of the Mozambique economy without mentioning that RENAMO, with overt support from South Africa and covert support […]
[…] Charles Krauthammer of The New Republic; Princeton historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s UN ambassador and leading AEI figure; Claire Sterling, the promoter of the KGB plot to kill the Pope story in the Reader’s Digest and elsewhere, and Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine and his wife, Midge Decter, executive […]
