[…] 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, […]
[…] that no-one atThe Times thought it worth while either ringing Turner, checking the cuttings library or his book. Notes The important story about Norwood was ‘Norwood: the spy who ever was’ by Phillip Knightley in the New Statesman 13 December 1999 which showed that whatever it was Norwood gave to the Soviets, it wasn’t […]
A Channel 4 SOE mystery In January and February this year Channel 4 broadcast a history of the war-time Special Operations Executive, SOE, written and presented by the novelist Sebastian Faulks, called Churchill’s Secret Army. It was an interesting series with some excellent first-hand material and footage. But there were two mysteries. The first, and … Read more
[…] life of R.A. Butler (London, 1987). G. Ingham, Capitalism divided? The city and industry in British social development (Cambridge, 1984). P. Knightley, The second oldest profession: the spy as patriot bureaucrat, fantasist and whore (London, 1986). R. Lamb, The drift to war, 1922-1939 (London, 1989) J. Leutze (ed.) The London journal of Raymond E. […]
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
[…] what was then called the ‘silicon chip’. And Alec Guinness kept the nation spellbound with the television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back […]
[…] stories on Zinoviev appeared in August: ‘Red Letter Day’ by Patrick French, in the Sunday Times 10 August 1997, and ‘The forgery, the election and the MI6 spy’ by Michael Smith in the Daily Telegraph 13 August 1997. Both articles were based on the release of certain documents from SIS’s archives which purport to […]
[…] Martin was currently using Sharon Denby to front his model agency business. She said Martin had worked as a private detective and had hired another detective to spy on Owen Oyston’s ex-wife Vicki Oyston. Melanie Hardy also claimed to Murrin that she had that morning noticed signs of an attempted forced entry on her […]
