[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 […]
