[PDF file]: […] so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life’s work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage.’ (p. 314) Symonds’ account ends with this devastating final paragraph. ‘In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times […]
[…] Knew too Much 6 . See, for example, . 7 Not sure which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 8 2 We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, […]
[PDF file]: […] attachment to print journalism, as is sometimes suggested, but have one purpose and one purpose only: ‘to 1 Lobster regulars might be familiar with McKnight’s earlier book, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. give Murdoch a seat at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has […]
[PDF file]: […] really review them. However, there are some things I can say about them. I’m not quite sure why but I have never taken Gordon Thomas’s books on espionage and parapolitics seriously. Partly, it is just that he writes a lot, and I don’t trust people who are prolific in these fields because this material […]
[PDF file]: […] Is it simply that 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of free trade. There have also been anxieties expressed in Washington that China is using both foreign investment and its increasingly sophisticated IT and AI sectors for espionage against the West. These have recently centred on Huawei along with Chinese social media corporations such as TikTok and WeChat. The upshot has been a series […]
Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 V: The dogs of war You have to recognise that, you should tell people, that so much of the social media content that they are getting, that is popping up on their feeds or what-have-you . . . . It’s deliberately done. No different to what […]
[PDF file]: […] secretary and intelligence services were finally established on a statutory basis in the 1990s, they were encouraged to engage more in the public sphere. Commercial and industrial espionage were legitimised, and the days of secretive but deeply reactionary figures such as Peter Wright and Charles Elwell are long gone. We now live in a […]
[PDF file]: […] University of Texas Press, 1998) and John Prados, Presidents’ Secret Wars (Chicago: Elephant, 1996), Cullather (see note 1) and Stephen E. Ambrose, Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1981). 8 See Schlesinger and Kinzer (see note 3). 17 Winter 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and […]
[PDF file]: […] was not exactly where the political Did we need the 22 pages the author devotes to Hunt’s biography? In it we learn a great deal about Hunt’s espionage novels and the fact that Hunt took the job with the White House because he needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term […]
