The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, and the […]
[PDF file]: […] fireplace, champagne was served but the prince did not drink. ‘How come no-one has written a book about the Safari Club?’ Midolo asked. He didn’t want to spook him by asking about Holden straight away. ‘Oh, bits and pieces have come out in various books,’ Turki replied with a smile. ‘The Egyptian journalist Mohamed […]
[PDF file]: […] opposition which had afflicted Jack Jones.113 On the other hand, the fact that Fairclough recycles this old right-wing MI5 nonsense suggests that he may have been the spook he claims. So there was no ‘communist threat’ in post-war Britain? I wrote about this in 1993. I concluded then that there had been such a […]
[…] and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew when he was an undergraduate there. In this setting Beaumont – whether ex- spook or not – has written a very good, nicely written and gripping account of Sharman’s investigation of this network (and occasionally killing as the Russians try […]
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