[…] was new to me — but as ‘West’ approaches the present day his editing becomes more and more eccentric. Thus, for example, we are informed that Kim Philby ‘was a philandering drunk whose career was destined to be curtailed by the knowledge, acquired secretly by MI5, that he had once been a member of […]
[…] this (or was that also marketing bullshit?) — presumably for the handful of pages in which Bristow expresses his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. But that’s about all there […]
[…] wrote unbelievably childish and banal letters back to his family in Gemany. (3) Yet the KGB and State Department reports, based respectively on the testimony of Kim Philby, the Czech intelligence chief Colonel Moravetz, and Churchill’s personal link to the security and intelligence services, Sir Desmond Morton, all point to one fact: Hess came […]
[…] briefing notes for Simon’s questioning of “Hess’, was kept in the dark. What does this imply for the status of the information Tom Dupree gave to Kim Philby not later than May 18? Why should news that was being passed along Whitehall corridors and was even the subject of (admittedly highly classified) diplomatic circulars […]
[…] I thought it would come out and I would get the chop.’ Montgomery died in February 1988. Clay Shaw, in other words, had one-stop access to Blunt, Philby, Burgess and their milieu. Though there is no information that he met any of them, we know from Olwen JANSON and others that he spent a […]
[…] there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was in the Careers Section of London’s Evening Standard when a fiction writer […]
[…] of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, […]
[…] you know that it has been alleged that Sir Charles Curran was, for years, a top British Intelligence operative. (Izvestia 20/12/68, based on information supplied by Kim Philby.) Within a couple of days of this ‘top secret’ meeting the head of BOSS called me over to his Pretoria office and told me exactly what […]
[…] 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 […]
