[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this period, and that I was one such. For MI5, 1977, the year I left the party, was crucial: as Shayler has stated, they […]
Just for the historical record, these rather faded cuttings from the Daily Express are just two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam … Read more
[…] which, it is true, could not be produced in a court of law. But then neither could Solomon’s as she made it clear she was frightened of KGB retaliation.There is a further problem with Solomon’s tale – or, perhaps, with Peter Wright’s telling of it. Wright records her talking to Arthur Martin during her […]
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, […]
