[…] two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and the murder of the newspaper owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. Both murders are related to the failed KGB coup […]
[…] vast legal costs and heavy financial damage suffered personally by Oyston appears to be more than £250 million. The former fish and chip shop owner and insurance agent Michael Murrin claims that his allegations of corruption at Preston Council prompted Operation Angel, a £25 million inquiry during which the Lancashire Constabulary Commercial Fraud Squad […]
[…] eponymous publishing house, and by Ned Chase, (father of Chevy) who was editor in chief at Putnam’s, and asked by both of them do a book. My agent was the gentlemanly John Schaffner, whose eccentric family reminded everyone of the Sitwells. His wife, Perdita, had, it turned out, been secretary to James Jesus Angleton, […]
[…] Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order of Lenin, one […]
[…] among whom were Merlino and Serpieri, and representatives of the Greek regime, including Rauti’s friend Konstantin Plevris, leader of the Nazified ‘4th of August’ movement and an agent of the KYP.(155) Since Plevris was himself the architect of the Greek ‘strategy of tension’, most researchers have supposed that he advised the visiting rightists on […]
[…] and Wilson regimes.” Two months later appeared the Spectator article. * * * Private Eye never went as far as naming Sternberg or Plummer as a KGB agent. The libel laws would have prevented any such smear. But following Sternberg’s death in 1978, Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick) had no such qualms in his book […]
[…] There is little, if anything, in the case studies which follow Lawrence’s piece that can’t be found in abundance in the domestic history of the US. The agent provocateur has been a routine tool of US capital for at least half a century. (Don’t I remember Dashiel Hammet being one for the Pinkertons before […]
William C. Chasey ProMotion Publishing, 3368 F Governor Drive, Suite 144, San Diego, CA 92122, $19.95. ISBN 1-887314-01-6 Chasey was the foreign agent 4221, that is a lobbyist registered with the US Department of Justice, who took a PR contract from the government of Libya to try and help normalise relations with the U.S. […]
Paul Routledge London: Fourth Estate, 2002, £16.99 In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I reported the snippet of information from a recent biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her … Read more
[…] CPGB. The same thing was happening in the United States. The man who collected the dollars from the Soviets for the American Communist Party was an FBI agent. Like MI5, the FBI let the funding continue. In effect MI5 and the FBI ran the American and British communist parties as honeytraps for their labour […]
