Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

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[PDF file]: […] anniversary. See . 8 Personally, I adhere to the adage that in intelligence ‘there is no such thing as coincidence’ (© John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy). 9 Oxford: OUP, 11 March 2021 or . 10 
 3 that collusion was involved in the attack. What other possible evidence does Taylor think should […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] Taylor is also cheap with the facts when he recounts the time that Brendan Duddy was interrogated by the IRA because they thought he was a British spy. He says: McGuinness suspected Brendan might be playing a double game as a suspected British spy. Shortly afterwards, four senior IRA men arrived at Brendan’s house, […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] Taylor is also cheap with the facts when he recounts the time that Brendan Duddy was interrogated by the IRA because they thought he was a British spy. He says: McGuinness suspected Brendan might be playing a double game as a suspected British spy. Shortly afterwards, four senior IRA men arrived at Brendan’s house, […]

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[…] 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 […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

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[PDF file]: […] who were sequestrated by the Americans under the umbrella of the now infamous Operation Paperclip. Both Klaus Barbie (the infamous ‘Butcher of Lyon’) and Reinhard Gehlen (Hitler’s spy chief) were integral to the founding of several ‘Gladio’ networks through their connections to other ex-Nazis, some of whom were, like Barbie and Gehlen themselves, war […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] not hesitate to obliterate us if they could. If we want to protect ourselves – and who seriously would argue that we shouldn’t? – we have to spy on them. In electronic terms that means looking for needles in haystacks and you can’t do that 16 without having access to the whole hayfield.’ GCHQ […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by other historians, he eventually conceded, ‘I made some claims about facts which have turned out to be unwarranted’. Of his claim that Bruno was the embassy spy, code-named ‘Henry Fagot’, Bossy wrote, ‘I thought so at the time, but have turned out to be mistaken’. Bossy, however, had dragged a lot of fascinating […]

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