[…] Sidney Reilly is still encountered in Sunday papers on a fairly regular basis, in the same way and in a similar category to the Mitfords, Wallis Simpson, Philby and T. E. Lawrence. Beyond the legend, Spence confirms that Reilly was probably one Solomon Rosenblum, from Tsarist Poland, who arrived in the UK, aged 21 […]
[…] wrote of Bethell: ‘In my view the odds are a million to one against Bethell being a security risk in the sense that Maclean and Burgess and Philby were. But I think there may be a chance that he is a security risk in the sense that information, which he may pick up as […]
[…] early 1980s about the anti-subversion crowd which had gathered round Brian Crozier and ISC. It is those which should be remembered rather than his uninteresting book about Philby. John McGuffin died in April. I came across McGuffin as the author and distributor of a fascinating e-mail newsletter about Irish politics, Dispatches. McGuffin was the […]
[…] could be accurate: i.e. the best ‘Red Orchestra’ material came from London where long term Soviet agents (in this case John Cairncross) had access to ENIGMA. Cairncross/ Philby etc got the material from ENIGMA and gave it to the Soviets. Because – obscurely – the Soviets didn’t know the details of the origins of […]
[…] to look at Mitrokhin and the way he was handled by MI6, messrs Shayler and Tomlinson, the two most important defectors from the British security agencies since Philby, were in exile in one case and in jail in the other. While Shayler was sitting in a French jail the House of Commons had its […]
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine […]
[…] Germany, Israel, Denmark and France. His most important catch was the high ranking MI6 official George Blake, whose unmasking led in turn to the exposure of Kim Philby, the most famous ‘mole’ of all time. Most disturbing of all, however, for the CIA, was Goleniewski’s claim that the East Bloc intelligence services were receiving […]
[…] Gable, one-time columnist Ray Hill, and the magazine itself, in relation to an August 1993 article in the ‘Hill Street News’ column. Riley is the author of Philby: the Hidden Years, the second edition of which was published by Janus of London last year . Janus publisher Sandy Leung gave evidence for Riley. Judge […]
[…] you know who came top of our security risk list? None other than your own Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Mountbatten. He rated six times higher than Philby. If he had been anyone other than Mountbatten it is almost certain that he would not have survived our positive vetting tests. He was the perfect […]
[…] House, Australia, 1991). It is an account of Ian Milner, a pre-WW2 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar who became a Soviet agent in the same period as the Philby group while working for the New Zealand Foreign Ministry. What is interesting about the book, however, is not the spy aspect, but the portrait of the […]
