[…] the First Man.” (5). Auberon Waugh in the Spectator (14 June 1980) had written a half-serious article titled ‘Lord Rothschild is Innocent’. Revealing the links between Blunt, Burgess and Rothschild, Waugh added, with tongue in cheek: “Any suggestion which might be implied that Lord Rothschild could even have been under suspicion by MI5 as […]
[…] episode of series four of Spooks (BBC1) included a convincing explanation of how MI5 could have engineered the crash. () The coroner On 18 December 2003, Michael Burgess, H.M. Coroner for Surrey, confirmed that inquests on Diana and Dodi would open on 6 January 2004: Diana’s inquest was to be held at the Queen […]
[…] And did they depend on a predictable British reaction, the cover-up, to self-inflict longer term political damage? Some sections of the British right seemed to believe so. Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951 after Maclean was pinpointed by a Venona decryption as agent Homer. Burgess didn’t have to go with him, he wasn’t suspected. […]
[…] collusion with the Communist Party’ (p. 124) ‘Hollis also took the view, it seems‘ (p. 125) ‘Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess…’ (p. 129) ‘Must have been clear to Hollis’ (p. 140) ‘Hollis would clearly have agreed (p. 144) The next chapter, ‘The Great Mole Hunt – From […]
the first book from the KGB archives John Costello and Oleg Tsarev Century, London, 1993 Yet another reheat of the interminable stew of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean et al, this time spiced up with material from the KGB archives. Yes, the KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today… today it certainly makes a striking […]
[…] to the plan….The Special Branch began compiling a ‘Black Book’ of known perverts in influential government jobs after the disappearance of the diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who were known to have pervert associates . Now comes the difficult task of side-tracking these men into less important jobs – or putting them behind […]
[…] became part of British Cold War activities. Philby was important here, working from Istanbul. The Soviets of course were kept well-informed of these developments – Philby used Burgess in London to forward the information. The League had, in effect, ceased to operate by 1949 but Dorril traces the ways in which it fed into […]
[…] that Montagu was imprisoned partly as a sop to the USA, who wanted the Foreign Office to make an example of someone in the aftermath of the Burgess and Maclean defection, and partly because Anthony Eden was convinced that Montagu had seduced his son whilst they were both at Eton. The book ends with […]
[…] a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House of Lords boss, George Jellicoe, with insinuations that could but not remind him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in 1951… And it was these same “guardians of the nation’s security”, according to my Chief Whip, Michael St Aldwyn, […]
[…] counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It might be bulging with new information; I just don’t know (or care). […]
