[PDF file]: TO CATCH A SPY How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold Tim Tate London: Icon, h/b, £25 Robin Ramsay The publisher sent me a pre-publication proof copy of this on spec and my initial reaction was: Is there really any need to go over this old ground again? Turns out, there […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] agencies, spying, databases and archives. Infomanage http://www.infomanage.com/ Many subject categories, including politics, intelligence, legal, conflict resolution. E.g. under intelligence: secrecy and government; intelligence community; information warfare; recent spy cases; U.S. intelligence budget; foreign intelligence operations; government. and non-government. intelligence organisations; intelligence-related journals; secrets/conspiracies e.g. TWA flight 800, Gulf War Syndrome, Whitewater, plutonium experiments; newsgroup […]
[…] many others. However, as Riley himself has argued in the past (Lobster 16), would Rothschild have really been in charge of the recruitment of the most successful spy ring in modern times before he was twenty years old? Would Rothschild have continued working for the KGB after the Soviets became anti-Israeli in 1948? It’s […]
