[PDF file]: […] 1943-44. Second is Gertrude Bell – the precursor of T. E. Lawrence, who was stationed in Arabia two years before him (and who worked with St. John Philby – the father of Kim Philby). The third was, somewhat predictably – but still revelatory in the background detail69 – Margaretha Zelle (a.k.a. Mata Hari).70 Unnecessary […]
[PDF file]: […] were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear of exposure as a onetime NKVD agent with the attendant risk […]
[PDF file]: […] in 1956. Courtney was a career naval officer who ran the UK’s infiltration of agents into Latvia and Estonia in the late ‘40s, an operation that Kim Philby destroyed by revealing it to the Soviets. Courtney was a Conservative MP 1959-1966. Both Courtney and Raikes would have been in their seventies when compiling any […]
[PDF file]: Apocryphylia Simon Matthews Letter of the week! W atching Newsnight or any of the other flagship current affairs programmes, it is striking how little attention is being paid to the possibility of Scottish independence. Coverage of day-to-day politics remains focussed on speculation about the outcome of the 2015 General Election, with a basic assumption that […]
[PDF file]: […] scenario in the US – the possibility of losing 29 The critical dates in this theory would be the Vassall spy trial (October 1962), the disappearance of Philby in Beirut (January 1963) and the Profumo case (May-June 1963). The US Ambassador attended the Parliamentary debate on the latter in person and cabled back to […]
[PDF file]: […] serious reporting is often a matter of trading information. You often have to give to take. It was part of David Holden’s job to drink with Kim Philby in Beirut, help left-wing Fred Halliday on Saudi Arabian politics and write for the CIA-financed magazine Encounter.18 The book is also unfair, in passing, to Sir […]
[…] serious reporting is often a matter of trading information. You often have to give to take. It was part of David Holden’s job to drink with Kim Philby in Beirut, help left-wing Fred Halliday on Saudi Arabian politics and write for the CIA-financed magazine Encounter.18 The book is also unfair, in passing, to Sir […]
[PDF file]: […] Wright (and others) were not privy to the recordings? Initially Tate takes the reader on a journey through the post-WW2 history of Soviet espionage in the UK: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Blunt etc. This is the necessary background to Peter Wright’s obsessive hunt for Soviet ‘moles’. Tate then steers us through two big events. […]
[PDF file]: […] to be an SIS document, ‘A Proposed Statement to the NTS Leadership’, which, presuming it to be genuine, may have been given to the Soviets by Kim Philby or George Blake. Bower quotes a brief section from the same document. 115 116 Labour Research, January 1961, p. 10. 27 though unproven – the IRIS […]
[PDF file]: […] the course of the evening.14 What was Butler discussing with de Courcy and what did Butler talk about with the Duke of Alba? We aren’t told. Kim Philby noted in his My Silent War (1968) that the Spanish diplomatic bag during the Second World War was regularly accessed ‘. . . and from it […]
