British Spies and Irish Rebels British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 Paul McMahon Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £30 First up, I have no specialist knowledge of this area, so if there any howlers in here, I’m unlikely to spot them. However, I know a good book when I see one. This has been … Read more
[…] the Soviet Embassy on request. Betty Boothroyd told her boss; her boss called in MI5. But the MI5 officer misread her, and tried to recruit her to spy on some Labour MPs. She refused. MI5 did what they do so well: they bad-mouthed her at the Foreign Office and she was banned from working […]
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
[…] working for those dailies would care to explain. CIA in Northern Ireland The Irish Republic’s Military Intelligence (G.2) discovered that the CIA were behind a plot to spy on loyalist paramilitary groups. (Sunday News 27th November 1983) Lyn Macrey, who does welfare work for UDA prisoners, was approached by ‘The Hettinger Institute’, a phoney […]
[…] entire Sandinista connection was a US intelligence fabrication. Particularly suspicious is the role of Federico Vaughn, the supposed Sandinista official, who appears to have been a US spy all along. An AP dispatch (Omaha World-Herald, 7-29-88) disclosed that subcommittee staffers called Vaughn’s phone number in Managua and spoke to a “domestic employee” who said […]
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
[…] and information. More on Wallace. His wife, Eileen, was personal secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, the same Duke accused by Charles Haughey of being a British spy chief. In September 1983 the RUC leaked to the Belfast Newsletter the information that a file on British Army psy ops (black propaganda) was missing when […]
[…] nearly a week before the USSR owned up to its deed. When it did, its spokesmen were adamant that KAL 007 had been on a deliberate ‘ spy mission’, one which included a ten minute ‘rendezvous’ with one of our RC-135 (Cobra Ball) spy planes. The alleged rendezvous occurred as the airliner approached the […]
[…] 1978) Agency of Fear (New York, 1977) Tad Szulc, Penthouse, September 1975: also NYT 12th July 1975. Anthony Pearson, Conspiracy of Silence (London, 1978) For example: ‘The Spy War’ in International Herald Tribune 2nd October 1980; ‘The Spy War’, New York Times Mag. 26th September 1980; Sunday Times (London) 23rd April 1978. There’s a lot […]
