[…] but only if he did a little job for them first, arranging a series of pseudo-clandestine meetings with Sutch, so that Sutch could be smeared as a spy. The main evidence for this being a set-up was the clumsy “tradecraft’ of both Sutch and the Soviet, and the fact that the SIS was always […]
[…] the course of justice, a Prime Minister who engaged in a conspiracy to criminally libel me and a Prime Minister who is using the security services to spy on me, despite the fact that the Crown Prosecution Service immediately found that I had committed no crime when the Blairs attempted to have me prosecuted […]
[…] that no-one atThe Times thought it worth while either ringing Turner, checking the cuttings library or his book. Notes The important story about Norwood was ‘Norwood: the spy who ever was’ by Phillip Knightley in the New Statesman 13 December 1999 which showed that whatever it was Norwood gave to the Soviets, it wasn’t […]
A Channel 4 SOE mystery In January and February this year Channel 4 broadcast a history of the war-time Special Operations Executive, SOE, written and presented by the novelist Sebastian Faulks, called Churchill’s Secret Army. It was an interesting series with some excellent first-hand material and footage. But there were two mysteries. The first, and … Read more
[…] life of R.A. Butler (London, 1987). G. Ingham, Capitalism divided? The city and industry in British social development (Cambridge, 1984). P. Knightley, The second oldest profession: the spy as patriot bureaucrat, fantasist and whore (London, 1986). R. Lamb, The drift to war, 1922-1939 (London, 1989) J. Leutze (ed.) The London journal of Raymond E. […]
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
[…] what was then called the ‘silicon chip’. And Alec Guinness kept the nation spellbound with the television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back […]
[…] stories on Zinoviev appeared in August: ‘Red Letter Day’ by Patrick French, in the Sunday Times 10 August 1997, and ‘The forgery, the election and the MI6 spy’ by Michael Smith in the Daily Telegraph 13 August 1997. Both articles were based on the release of certain documents from SIS’s archives which purport to […]
[…] by Walde pp.79-105. The best sketch of Mossad’s structure and functioning is probably the CIA’s own leaked 1979 analysis, Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services in Counter spy (May-June 1982) pp.34-54. Most of the other works on the Israeli intelligence services are ‘hagiographic’. The NATO secret service is so secret that even its name […]
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In […]
