[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of the BAP Project (Lobsters passim) and now ‘chief adviser, editorial policy’ at the BBC. With the publication of the Richard Crossman diaries, the exposure of Kim Philby and the campaign for thalidomide victims to his name, the plaudits for Evans were undoubtedly earned, even if he was a founding member of the Media […]
[PDF file]: […] Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s memoirs, the Philby ‘third man’ story and the ABC trial in the 1970s; a detailed account of the hassles generated by the trickle of books which began in the […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of the trade by the covert heroes of the Cold War, the people who had stolen the U.S. atomic secrets, who had worked with the Rosenbergs, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean. To the callow cadets they seemed majestic figures, beyond the reach of mere mortals . . . .’ 26 Washington Station is […]
