[PDF file]: […] their alliance with the Saudis and the Americans. The British had tried to derail the Sunday Times investigation and covered everything up, to avoid yet another Cambridge spy scandal. And the CIA still pretended it knew nothing about it.4 Stanley Bonnett, born in London a few months after Holden, had volunteered for the Royal […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 75.The Monday Club held a conference on “subversion” in 1970. Speakers included Charles Lyon, ex-FBI, Sir Robert Thompson, Ian Greig, Harold Soref and G. K. Young. (Counter spy November 1981) An interesting line-up. Lyons was “London contact for the Maheu agency” – the Robert Maheu Agency which worked for Howard Hughes. (Hougan, 1979, p. […]
[PDF file]: […] Cazalet, Victor Cazalet: A Portrait (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976), written by Robert Rhodes James MP, but confirmed by Cazalet’s private papers. 36 Quoted in Richard Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London: Phoenix, 2005) pp. 213 and 218-219. 37 Prince Paul was educated at Oxford, where he was a member of 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] so Hollingshead’s antics are not out of keeping with such an approach. On the other hand, he was never officer material and clearly didn’t operate as a spy or agent in any conventional sense. He was far too unreliable a character. As well as having a prodigious appetite for alcohol and a wide range […]
[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 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, […]
[…] 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, […]
