[…] so-called Team B exercise.(6) Then the Soviets were presented as the controllers of international terrorism, enabling the Israelis to label the Palestinians as terrorists, controlled by the KGB. This theme was launched at the Jonathan Institute conference of 1979 in Israel before being taken up by anti-detente groups within the US intelligence community. Yet […]
[…] No wonder the likes of Brian Crozier and the other conspiracy theorists within the NATO intelligence services think that this must all be the work of a KGB plot. (And how frustrating it must be for them to find so little evidence! Crozier et al, suffer from acute, possibly terminal cases of projection. Since […]
[…] Arthur Darling, The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government to 1950, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1990, pp. 260-261. ‘Interfering with Civil Society: CIA and KGB Covert Political Action during the Cold War’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counter-intelligence, Vol. 8 No. 4, Winter 1995, p.434. The CIA and the Marshall Plan, […]
[…] wait long to get their revenge. The following month they broke the story that a cipher clerk in the French diplomatic service, Maurice Abrivard, had been a KGB spy for ten years up to his death in 1984, delivering diplomatic codes and important secrets about the installation of US Pershing missiles in Europe to […]
[…] sources and associate partners world-wide (11) Therefore, the world is being divvied-up among confreres including, say, the CIA in South America, Mossad, or today’s equivalent of the KGB, with each taking, in PR jargon, ‘lead agency status’ in their own areas. ‘Coordination’ will, of course, unravel. It always does. CIA imperatives, much like President […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] anarchists whose activities led to the Siege of Sidney Street in London in 1911. This group contained Yakov Peters, later a highly placed figure in the NKVD/ KGB. He was also, apparently, an informer for both Scotland Yard and the Tsarist secret police.(1) There appear to be many other examples of this capacity to […]
[…] Billygate incident, when the brother of President Jimmy Carter found himself entangled with Libyan leader Ghadaffi. After working for Haig – and helping Claire Sterling promote the KGB plot to kill the Pope story – Ledeen became a consultant to Reagan’s National Security Council. There he figured importantly in the Iran-Contra scandal through his […]
[…] that made analog long-distance equipment for export to Soviet bloc countries. Frequently the specifications called for an access port for each channel, which we dubbed the ‘ KGB output.’ Now it turns out that the FBI wants the same thing. Not to be outdone, the NSA played the major role in the development of […]
