[PDF file]: The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold Tim Tate London: Bantam Press, 2021, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay I have been rewatching The West Wing.1 In one of the early episodes, as some complex foreign policy event unravels, one of the characters wistfully says, ‘How I miss the Cold War’. Yes, it was […]
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing […]
[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;(12) and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]
[…] resulting from interception activities were published by the US press – before Europe became concerned about the ECHELON system. See: ‘Germany, UK breaching human rights with NSA spy link-up’, Duncan Campbell, 27 May 2001, www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ech/7753/1.html; and Campbell’s reports to the ECHELON C’tee: ‘ECHELON and its role in COMINT’, Jan. 2001, www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/7747/1.html which summarises evidence […]
[…] a summary of this case see Robert I.Friedman, ‘The Enemy Within,’ Village Voice, 11 May 1993, pp. 27-32; and Richard C. Paddock, ‘New Details of Extensive ADL Spy Operation Emerge,’ Los Angeles Times, 13 April 1993, pp. A1, A16. For an outline of the conspiracy against LaRouche by the ADL and U.S. intelligence operatives, […]
[…] Echelon The European Parliament will commission a report into the workings of Echelon (Wired News 30 Sept 1998 www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15295.html) In the US, a new report, ‘Echelon: America’s Spy in the Sky’, detailing the history and workings of the NSA’s global surveillance system, will be sent to members of Congress. Report at: http://www.freecongress.org/ctp/echelon.html ‘Somebody’s Listening’, […]
[…] to make sure that it has elected a government who will control it, even as it has tried to control us. Corinne Souza is currently writing The Spy and a Lobbyist. Her businessman father was a decorated Commonwealth Agent who served SIS for nearly twenty years. The book covers the impact that SIS had […]
[…] companies’ (pp. 989-1014); Cedric Ryngaert’s ‘Litigating abuses committed by private military companies’ (pp. 1035-1053); and Simon Chesterman’s examination of outsourcing in the intelligence gathering community (‘“We can’t spy if we can’t buy!”: the privatization of intelligence and the limits of out-sourcing “inherently governmental functions”’, pp. 1055-1074), in particular his section on incentives: ‘there are […]
Hitler’s spy chief: the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005, £20 This is a full and very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, […]
[…] STAFF COLL QUETTA 1947 HM CIVIL SERVICE 1965 CONTROLLER OF ENEMY PROPERTY 1969 RETIRED NOVELIST ‘WILLIAM HAGGARD’. ASSOCIATED WITH INTELLIGENCE WORK DURING HIS CAREER. (WHO’S WHO IN SPY FICTION. DONALD MCCORMICK, LONDON 1977) CLIFFORD, WG MI6 (PHILBY) 1955 2ND SEC (VISA) BEIRUT CLIFT, RICHARD DENNIS CMG (1984) B 18.5.33 MI6 (BF) 1956 FO 1958 […]
