[…] study of the pro-Soviet exile left in Britain and the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and partly another go round the story of Soviet espionage in Britain, in which story Norwood is a minor element. Depending on what you have read, CPGB member Norwood was a delightful old lefty, or a […]
[…] 119. 16 For a further discussion see my British Counter-insurgency, op cit. 17 Roger Faligot, British Military Strategy in Ireland: The Kitson Experiment, London 1983. 18 Frank Kitson, Warfare As A Whole, London 1987, pp. 55-57. 19 Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia: A History of political espionage in Britain in 1790-1988, London 1989, p. 205.
[PDF file]: […] 1959 defection to Russia. In part two, I will argue that Oswald’s story must be seen at a minimum in the context of an even more striking espionage affair, the defection to Moscow in the summer of 1960 of Bernon Mitchell and William Martin, former National Security Agency (NSA) officials, both of whom had […]
[PDF file]: […] the future. The novel T here have been persistent rumours that Anthony Burgess’s novel (published by Heinemann, London, in May 1962) was in some way related to espionage. These rumours were given the proverbial ‘shot in the arm’ with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis’s scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber […]
[PDF file]: […] but because this ‘cabinet’ is composed of bureaucrats, academics, professional politicians, businessmen and assorted charlatans in the train of the reigning president, there is need for an espionage organisation which in theory tells these ministers when, where and how to wage war most advantageously. That is the official reason why the criminal cabinet needs […]
[PDF file]: […] Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), pp. 207-232 General A. Mitchell Palmer. During the course of the their investigation of German espionage in the United States, Bureau agents discovered Senator Warren Harding, the Ohio Republican, in the arms of his mistress Carrie Phillips, a suspected German spy. A […]
[…] OF CONTENTS FOREWORD …………………………………………………………………………………..1 A CKN OWLEDGMENTS ……………………………………………………………….4 PRE.FACE ………………………………………………………………………………………. 5 INTR.ODuc·noN ………………………………………………………………………….7 INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS …………………………………….12 AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL (Am ……………………………13 BACK CHANNELS A J ournal of Espionage, Assassinatio11s and Conspiracy ………………………………………………………………………..15 BRITISH STUDY GROUP ON INTELLIGENCE (BSGI) (NEWSLE’l’l’ER) ……………………………………………………………………….17 CA.MPUS WATCH (CW) …………………………………………………………….. 19 CASIS NEWSLE”l'”l’ER ………………………………………………………………….21 CIA OFF CAMPUS – National Clearinghouse…………………………… […]
[PDF file]: […] same way as the influence of ‘big oil’ is in decline because, with the exception of Washington, everybody else recognised the environment debate, so too has ‘big’ espionage collapsed. The last of the Cold War spook agencies with leading brand status to topple in ignominy like the rest of them was SIS: in its […]
[PDF file]: […] Hastings is sceptical of this, though he corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain’s main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 (SIS), staffed by ‘men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling’s […]
[PDF file]: […] with Bob Stewart, a senior official, at the Party’s King Street headquarters, to discuss his future role in the organisation.3 He complained about his unwilling involvement in espionage, telling Stewart that this was ‘the only time I’ve really been unhappy in the Party’. MI5 had Stewart’s office bugged (‘Operation Table’) and heard all the […]
