[…] these said we don’t know but I think we may presume, as the programme did, that they contained some version of Angleton’s suspicion that Wilson was a KGB agent. These letters must have had some weight in Thatcher’s decision to take the KGB agent nonsense about Wilson to Robert Armstrong, then the Home Office […]
In this article I amplify and update my account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul which appeared in Lobster 37. Since it was written there have been a number of interesting developments – the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car […]
[…] the Nigerian Civil War, argued for two years that the real requirement was to learn something of the state of Nigerian politics, not the activities of the KGB. There was indirect opposition to Bevin in 1949, and to Eden in 1956….In Northern Ireland, from 1971 onwards, SIS officers came to believe that the Provisional […]
[…] it took on a distinctly bizarre look. Eddowes’ book, November 22nd: How They Killed Kennedy (3) suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald had been replaced by a look-a-like KGB agent when he went to the Soviet Union. (4) Following this to its logical conclusion, Eddowes reportedly spent over $10,000 in October 1981 on legal fees […]
[…] the project ‘Victory for Strauss’ using the tactics applied in Great Britain, of major themes such as the communist, extremist subversion of government parties and trade unions, KGB manipulation of terrorism and damage to internal security. The future form of the project will be left to be determined by Crozier with him in a […]
[…] Reader’s Digest article, ‘The Plot to Kill the Pope’, a little later marked the start of a concerted US-based publicity effort to blame the outrage on the KGB through the so-called Bulgarian Connection. () The author of the Digest article and many other pieces blaming the rise of international terrorism on the Soviet Union […]
[…] with Alexander Prokhanov and Alexander Nagorny , Anatoly Baranov , Mikhail Delyagin, former advisor to Mikhail Kasyanov, Alexei Kondaurov (head of YUKOS security department, former general of KGB and FSB, State Duma deputy from CPRF), Ilya Ponomarev (former YUKOS CEO, CPRF). In 2002-03, together with Kondaurov–who represented Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Leonid Nevzlin–Surikov, with the […]
[…] Charles Krauthammer of The New Republic; Princeton historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s UN ambassador and leading AEI figure; Claire Sterling, the promoter of the KGB plot to kill the Pope story in the Reader’s Digest and elsewhere, and Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine and his wife, Midge Decter, executive […]
[…] former CIA officer Melvin Beck, the CIA was trying to photograph it, and the lobby was crawling with spies from as many five different services (FBI, CIA, KGB, GRU and DGI). While one cannot say that Jones’s 1960 visit to Cuba was necessarily a spying mission, the circumstantial evidence suggests that it was. That […]
[…] by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because it had collaborated with CIA plans to balkanise the former Russian Empire by supporting […]
