Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] another defector, Lyalin. (111). Wilson said later that Kagan had let Vaygauskas approach him as part of a scheme to assist Sir Arthur Young investigate Soviet commercial espionage. Young had been placed in Kagan’s company as ‘cover’. (h) Harold Wilson was involved in a series of corrupt land deals This presumably refers to the […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

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[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 […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] Powers doesn’t. These essays are mostly about the CIA. The problem is that there are two CIAs. There’s the CIA which does analysis, gathers information and conducts espionage and counter-espionage. This is a central intelligence agency. But there’s another one, which kills, bribes, corrupts, overthrows. This is not an intelligence agency: it is a […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

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[PDF file]: […] receiving payments from the Japanese government in June 1941. His office was raided on 13 December 1941 and various confidential documents found. Rather than face prosecution for espionage, he agreed to retire from public life. See or . 8 The American historian Carrol Quigley stated in two books, Tragedy and Hope and The Anglo-American […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

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[PDF file]: […] retain its ‘legitimate’ secrets. Indeed it is arguable that Snowden’s proclaimed sacrifice for personal privacy was more a cover for his crusade against all forms of electronic espionage. The second – unintended – impact of his actions, is that this book is another nail in the coffin of Glenn Greenwald’s risible ‘Panopticon’ thesis, spelt […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] where reports from sources (both overt and covert) would be read, assessed and collated. Considering that it uses techniques that are so close to those of state espionage, it should come as no surprise that Palantir Technologies has Sir Mark Allen (the ex-MI6 officer who is a suspect in rendition cases) as ‘a senior […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of it even has reassuring Eastern European labels on it. If the former Soviet bloc can no longer be plausibly portrayed as exporting revolution, terrorism, subversion and espionage to Britain, the remnants of the Soviet empire are now (we are told) engaged in money laundering, drug-running, gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of it even has reassuring Eastern European labels on it. If the former Soviet bloc can no longer be plausibly portrayed as exporting revolution, terrorism, subversion and espionage to Britain, the remnants of the Soviet empire are now (we are told) engaged in money laundering, drug-running, gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

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[PDF file]: […] Philby: Cad and Bounder? Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy Tim Milne, (London: Biteback, 2014) Scott Newton Few people in the history of espionage have had their public career, achievements, character and private life so thoroughly surveyed and discussed in literature and the media as the British intelligence officer Kim […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a graphologist who – conveniently for Mr Epstein’s burgeoning KGB theories, stoked by his interviews with the artful James Angleton – almost magically detected traces of Soviet espionage in the Historic Diary manuscript. The good doctor A t this stage, surely a closer look at Dr Lewinson herself is warranted. Dr Lewinson died on […]

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