[PDF file]: […] a graphologist who – conveniently for Mr Epstein’s burgeoning KGB theories, stoked by his interviews with the artful James Angleton – almost magically detected traces of Soviet espionage in the Historic Diary manuscript. The good doctor A t this stage, surely a closer look at Dr Lewinson herself is warranted. Dr Lewinson died on […]
[PDF file]: […] Philby: Cad and Bounder? Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy Tim Milne, (London: Biteback, 2014) Scott Newton Few people in the history of espionage have had their public career, achievements, character and private life so thoroughly surveyed and discussed in literature and the media as the British intelligence officer Kim […]
[PDF file]: […] had been helping the Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Murder in Cairo, p. 84 8 22 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate […]
[PDF file]: […] the family estate, Blessingbourne, was situated. These bare biographical facts on Montgomery do not betray the keen interest he has for students of 20th century intelligence and espionage. While a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became the lover of Anthony Blunt, the Soviet spy, aka ‘The Fourth Man’. In the words of Barrie […]
[…] had been helping the Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Murder in Cairo, p. 84 8 22 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate […]
[PDF file]: […] in January 1968 to withdraw British forces from ‘East of Suez’ (other than Hong Kong); the decision in September 1971 to expel 105 Soviet diplomats for alleged espionage and the decision in April 1982 to despatch a naval task force to the South Atlantic. Two things should be said at the start. First, this […]
[…] Powers doesn’t. These essays are mostly about the CIA. The problem is that there are two CIAs. There’s the CIA which does analysis, gathers information and conducts espionage and counterespionage. This is a central intelligence agency. But there’s another one, which kills, bribes, corrupts, overthrows. This is not an intelligence agency: it is a […]
[PDF file]: […] may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl Harbour. As indicated in the title, there was some US-UK collaboration on this matter and various German espionage activities in the US were thwarted. But the involvement of MI5 was actually quite limited. In 1937-1938 they monitored the activities of a Mrs Jordan who […]
[PDF file]: […] 2011 Development of SIS novelists T he SIS has also had the good sense and patience to encourage youngish men to establish careers as novelists – like espionage, PR is a long game. The authors I have noticed with SIS connection now maintaining the brand by feeding the espionage fiction habit are Charles Cumming […]
[PDF file]: […] to some bullshit in his time.18 On his Substack Nick Cohen quotes Harding on the Trump presidency as being: the greatest success in the history of Russian espionage. If you had a KGB wish list from the sixties or seventies, it would include to divide America from its European partners, reduce NATO’s power and […]
