[…] him. Over lunch, according to Shakespeare, ‘Mary chatted with Ian about her husband’s birdwatching adventures. Not lost on Ian was that “bird watcher” was slang for ” spy“.’ (p. 477) But Bond was not a ‘bird watcher’. Rather he studied the habitat and migratory patterns of birds, and collected specimens of various types of […]
[PDF file]: […] him. Over lunch, according to Shakespeare, ‘Mary chatted with Ian about her husband’s birdwatching adventures. Not lost on Ian was that “bird watcher” was slang for ” spy“.’ (p. 477) But Bond was not a ‘bird watcher’. Rather he studied the habitat and migratory patterns of birds, and collected specimens of various types of […]
[…] him. Over lunch, according to Shakespeare, ‘Mary chatted with Ian about her husband’s birdwatching adventures. Not lost on Ian was that “bird watcher” was slang for ” spy“.’ (p. 477) But Bond was not a ‘bird watcher’. Rather he studied the habitat and migratory patterns of birds, and collected specimens of various types of […]
[…] him. Over lunch, according to Shakespeare, ‘Mary chatted with Ian about her husband’s birdwatching adventures. Not lost on Ian was that “bird watcher” was slang for ” spy“.’ (p. 477) But Bond was not a ‘bird watcher’. Rather he studied the habitat and migratory patterns of birds, and collected specimens of various types of […]
[PDF file]: Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the […]
Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered the […]
[PDF file]: […] twice using a Monty Python reference within this one issue’s ‘South of the Border’, but it’s the only sensible reaction to some recent communication1 from ‘God’s own spy’, David Shayler. I would encourage those who have not read my article ‘David Shayler, “Tunworth” and the LIFG’ in this issue2 to do so before progressing […]
[…] by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing about the British state ‘springing’ Soviet spy George Blake from prison;45 Colin Wallace was framed for manslaughter because he knew about MI5’s antiLabour psy-ops in 1974; and Peter Sanderson was framed for robbery […]
[…] by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing about the British state ‘springing’ Soviet spy George Blake from prison;28 Colin Wallace was framed for manslaughter because he knew about MI5’s antiLabour psy-ops in 1974; and Peter Sanderson was framed for robbery […]
[PDF file]: […] foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military […]
