[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] video, Epstein is seen leaving in the company of a young blonde woman (who I would guess is in her twenties). See, for instance, ‘American charged with espionage in Russia has an unlikely background for a spy’ in The Chicago Tribune 3 January 2019 at or N.B. how that headline states ‘unlikely’, not ‘impossible’. […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] had been helping the Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Murder in Cairo, p. 84 8 22 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate […]
[…] had been helping the Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Murder in Cairo, p. 84 8 22 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the family estate, Blessingbourne, was situated. These bare biographical facts on Montgomery do not betray the keen interest he has for students of 20th century intelligence and espionage. While a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became the lover of Anthony Blunt, the Soviet spy, aka ‘The Fourth Man’. In the words of Barrie […]
