[…] but only if he did a little job for them first, arranging a series of pseudo-clandestine meetings with Sutch, so that Sutch could be smeared as a spy. The main evidence for this being a set-up was the clumsy “tradecraft’ of both Sutch and the Soviet, and the fact that the SIS was always […]
[…] the course of justice, a Prime Minister who engaged in a conspiracy to criminally libel me and a Prime Minister who is using the security services to spy on me, despite the fact that the Crown Prosecution Service immediately found that I had committed no crime when the Blairs attempted to have me prosecuted […]
[…] 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
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
[…] 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. […]
[…] programme: patronage, favour, flattery and relevance – classic control mechanisms – in return for marketing and data collection. As part of the latter, parents were told to spy on their children, many of them adults, as well as find solutions, PR-speak for shortcuts to containment. Exhorted to confront the seeping villainy of heinous fanatics, […]
[…] Fred Halliday proposes an outline for an anthology of Cold War literature covering five major themes: nuclear war; wars of the third world; belief and betrayal; the spy novel; and the end of cold war. Fred Halliday, ‘High and just proceedings: Notes towards an anthology of the Cold War’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, […]
[…] the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’ Notes See also Shipman’s ‘Why the CIA has to spy on Britain’, The Spectator, 25 February 2009 which has one or two fragments not in the Telegraph version. See, for example, . See Lobster 55 for […]
[…] 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 […]
