[…] American conspiracy round the activities of a fellow-travelling American Quaker, Noel Field, who had been in (innocent) contact with many leading figures in the Soviet bloc. ( KGB: the Inside Story pp. 336-341) Neither refers to Stewart Steven’s book, Operation Splinter Factor (London 1974, 76 and 78). Steven’s book is also about Noel Field […]
[…] by the Leyland deal. He secretly forced the Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson to promise that Canada would not make any similar trade deals with Cuba. The KGB chief in Washington, Aleksandr Feliksov, reported this to Moscow Centre on May 20, 1964, warning that President Johnson appeared even more intolerant of Cuba than the […]
[…] base. But it is hard work. Just as the animal rights people and the eco-warriors are not really an adequate substitute for MI5’s loss of the the KGB and GRU, so narco-terrorism and North Korea – barely able to feed its population but apparently about to rain missiles down on the US – are […]
[…] it on promotion. It is significant that neither MOD nor the security services prevented that transfer. p. 160 ‘Clockwork Orange attempted to link the IRA with the KGB and other foreign intelligence agencies supplying weapons and explosives. Wallace, for example, had the task of planting a false story that a submarine had been seen […]
[…] addition, should al-Qaida’s brand person, Osama Bin Laden die, the brand succession is now secured. Russia The inconsistency of the British and American brands is something former KGB officer, now President Putin of Russia, has played for all it is worth.(19) In his bid to remain at the top of Russia’s political machine – […]
[…] 5th August 1983)…… Arthur Martin, ex MI5, won substantial damages against the Daily Telegraph for articles that appeared in 1983 alleging that he might know of a KGB mole (Guardian 17th February 1984) …. Peter Hennessey (Times 30th April 1984) lists the Cabinet Office Intelligence Committees. Besides Margaret they are either chaired by Sir […]
[…] memoir. Keston College is not mentioned by Mr G either, even though keeping an eye on its activities was one of his jobs while working for the KGB in London. Keston College is the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism. It was mentioned occasionally, for example in Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters, […]
[…] a scandal involving Irish Justice Minister Doherty. Information on the CI surveillance was leaked to the press and Doherty had to resign and CI was purged. Two KGB men in the Irish Republic, Salines and Lippasov, who knew about this, were hurriedly expelled from Ireland. The purged CI people took their files with them […]
[…] robbed’. It was this unarticulated feeling of disappointment that in part later enabled some people even to entertain the notion that Gaitskell had been bumped-off by the KGB to make way for Wilson. This notion wasn’t entertained in NW1 but there was a feeling that Wilson had been suspiciously quick to take advantage of […]
[…] to serve the interests of Israel goes back well before that time. But once the Berlin Wall fell, the blame for terrorism switched from the Kremlin and KGB to Israel’s neighbours and Islamic radicalism. Yet virtually all of the British electorate remains in ignorance of the origins and purposes of this strategy. These two […]
