[…] at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhestan. It also led to the location of crashed Soviet TU-95 ‘Backfire’ bomber in Africa. (The accuracy of this information was later verified by spy satellites.) In 1978 the DIA took over as its office of primary responsibility.(29) Pat Price gave an equally incredibly detailed account in the course of his […]
[…] (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important update to […]
Andrew Emmerson and Tony Beard. London: Capital Transport, 2004, £25.00, h/b Gimme Shelter(s)! The secret underground government structures that originated during the Second World War and were later adapted, enlarged and augmented for the Nuclear Age were given a once-over by Peter Laurie in Beneath the City Streets (1970) and given much more detailed … Read more
[…] agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological agents. He was referring to David Wise’s book, Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas. ………the deception ultimately worked against US interests by spurring the Soviets to develop more lethal chemical and biological agents and may also […]
[…] successfully passed. Certainly, over a decade later, having met him, I can see no evidence whatsoever that he was in some sense mentally unbalanced. He was a spy who realised that the operations of the British Government were counter-productive. He started to object, and was pushed to one side for his pains. I raise […]
[…] the churches in the Soviet bloc as the plot of the current Len Deighton series – soon to be a trilogy of trilogies! – tells us. Try Spy Line or Spy Sinker. Quigley again Pat Robertson, the evangelical Christian politician, erstwhile Presidential candidate, wrote a book expounding his world views, The New World Order. […]
[…] saying that their indictments were a hoax, and that they were actually in the employ of the CIA – having been sent to the Middle East to spy on the various factions there. Frank later told me that Korkala signed a document to that effect, while Frank himself continued to do so. Korkala, then, […]
The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, […]
[…] Conference, cited by Le Caballac p. 35. The source in question says that the North Koreans originally arrested Moon for heretical teachings and because ‘he was a spy for the President of South Korea’. See Matczak, p. 7. Normally, one would assume that this was merely proferred as a post facto justification for his […]
[…] printed a full account of the story; In it Cathy Massiter, a former MI5 officer, blew the whistle on MI5 activities and named Harry Newton as a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of some of the programme.) Massiter said she was put in charge of the surveillance […]
