[…] 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 […]
[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] website on 23 February, whose headline was ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate JFK, ex-CIA chief and former head of Romania’s spy service claim in new book’.59 The former Romanian spook is Ion Pacepa. His co-author is R. James Woolsey, head of the CIA from 1993-1995. As a […]
[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]
[…] writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute whistle blowers and enemies of power elites. Zersetzen is the biggest threat to […]
[PDF file]: […] during the late 1980s and early 1990s, becoming an inside informer on the violent far-right group for Searchlight magazine and Special Branch.38 A case of the burned spy becoming a handler. The Mormon Church and U.S. Intelligence agencies. The current American government has made much of their successes in obtaining the release of U.S. […]
[PDF file]: […] we profile Lord most active in campaigning Declaration of interest: I worked closely with Mark Hollingsworth on lobbying issues in the 1980s/1990s; he edited my book Baghdad’s Spy in 2003. dovetailing with those of remaining Cold War warriors and, far more importantly, Britain’s then commercial interests. The latter, perhaps temporarily, ceased to be the […]
[…] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]
