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The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee
[PDF file]: […] film producer. He steered George Lazenby away from starring in any more films in the James Bond series, persuading Lazenby that plots in which a solitary British agent continually demonstrated amazing prowess in beating the enemies of the West were of declining relevance and would not sustain their box office appeal. Instead of this […]
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves by Matthew Sweet
[PDF file]: […] an area known as the Black Section, though, apparently, Angleton took little interest in it. According to Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts […]
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 SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage
[PDF file]: […] small minority. Mass espionage, which is what the Iraqis were playing at, is designed to create fear. Protection Security became the norm. My Baghdad-born father was an agent with the SIS and my family was lucky in that when I was a schoolgirl and we were under actual Iraqi threat in London, we had […]