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The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control.3 Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters. On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]
Newsinger on Strarmer
[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]
A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars
[PDF file]: […] National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti-Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 he had formed […]
A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont
Angles Morts
[PDF file]: […] Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo p. 371 2 2 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate the Middle […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]
TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate
[PDF file]: […] in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, for Tate reminds us that Harold Macmillan had Downing […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] was has been difficult to grasp until recently. But Amy Reading has researched it in detail and has published an intelligible account.2 7 Via Robert Caro’s literary agent, I sent a third e-mail to him wondering why he had omitted Billie Sol Estes from his most recent volume on LBJ. For the third time […]
Dallas again
[PDF file]: […] a commonplace among JFK researchers that we would never find out whodunnit until somebody confessed. We have had confessions from two former CIA employees – one contract agent, Holt, and a senior officer, Hunt – and both were greeted by the Kennedy researchers with near universal disbelief. 28 On Estes see for example or […]