[…] was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs might like to check the Journal of Contemporary History, July 1995, in which former SIS officer Kenneth Benton […]
[…] that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.’ Accompanying this will be ‘a companion documentary special, with Bugliosi addressing myriad conspiracy theories, including those involving the Mafia, the KGB or Fidel Castro in JFK’s assassination.’ One hopes that Bugliosi is doing all this on a pro bono publico basis and eschewing what he terms the […]
[…] formal responsibility, as a condition of restarting normal diplomatic and trade relations with the West, but still denies actually doing it. On pages 210/11 he reports that KGB defector Gordiefsky told them the the ‘KGB rezidentura had……. taken steps to cultivate several highly-placed trade union leaders, among them Richard Brigenshaw, Ray Buckton and Alan […]
[…] is reviewed in Lobster 23, p. 35 (2) So, if two early JFK theorists are now hob-nobbing with the far right, a third was hob-nobbing with the KGB. For the late Ms Meagher, Van Wynsberghe tells us, wrote for an American journal called Minority of One. I confess that before this year I had […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA fired some 400 Soviet experts, on the spurious ground that they were no […]
[…] the eight major TV interviews I gave the commentator always ended up by suggesting that I might still be working for BOSS or the CIA or the KGB. When I handed my Inside BOSS manuscript, and a big bundle of secret BOSS documents to Penguin Books, I dealt with their Editor, Neil Middleton. He’s […]
[…] the 1974 government he was positively hostile to Wilson – probably, but not certainly, because he had become infected with MI5’s conspiracy theory about Wilson and the KGB. Wilson believed that Wigg was the source of some of the leaks to the press and hired a private detective to research Wigg. The detective struck […]
1. Getting even more ugly I confess: I have given up buying Searchlight. There just isn’t anything that can be believed in it. In any case, other people send me the good bits – if ‘good’ is the right word. In June’s Searchlight this paragraph appeared; ‘Seasoned political observers in Northern Ireland say that the […]
