[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
