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The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy
The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are . . . the transgender spy Olivia Frank ISBN 978-1-9160963-0-1 £14.99 p/b available from Amazon.co.uk Robin Ramsay Robin Ramsay ! This is what £50,000 in notes looks like. They were left in the boot of Olivia Frank’s car – by someone apparently […]
The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett
[PDF file]: The Crash of Flight 3804 A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil Charlotte Dennett Chelsea Green Publishing (Hartford, Vermont, USA) h/b £21.99, $27.95 (US) Robin Ramsay The author’s father died in a plane crash – flight 3804 – in 1947 in Ethiopia. He was working […]
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac
Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis
More, please In an account of his career as a writer of spy fiction (Guardian 16 November ’89) John Le Carré referred to the hostile reaction received by his (unnamed) second book, presumably The Looking Glass War: ‘Critics and public alike rejected the novel, but this time the spies were cross. And since the […]
Secret Underground Cities, and, Secret Nuclear Bunkers
Secret Underground Cities: an account of some of Britain’s subterranean defence, factory and storage sites in the Second World War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1999, £14.95 (sb) Secret Nuclear Bunkers: the passive defence of the western world during the Cold War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 2002, £19.95 (hb) … Read more
Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5
[…] about this area, and introduces nothing new of any substance. After 172 pages of non-starters we meet the chapter ‘The Director General of MI5 – Spyrnaster or Spy?’. This does not really address nor answer the question, but partially covers the Chapman Pincher Hollis-was-guilty and the Anthony Glees Hollis-was-innocent axis, without reaching any conclusion. […]
PR, espionage and language
[…] travellers ‘to watch out for foreign spies using undercover techniques ranging from the sex trap to lavish hospitality'(9); teaching models for schools: ‘Ask students to chose a spy from history and create a secret fact file on their chosen spy, giving personal details as well as summaries of their main missions’; (10) and a […]
Mind Control and the American Government
[…] haunts the democratic nations. All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defence […]
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[…] of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. ‘Spooks’ are […]