Spy Wars: Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in […]
[…] breach of fundamental human rights. (www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/co/6724/1.html) The European Parliament held hearings on ‘The EU and Data Protection’ in February 2000, when Duncan Campbell’s report on the global spy network, Echelon, entitled Interception Capabilities 2000 (www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/stoa_cover. htm) was presented to the EP’s Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights Committee. This report contributed to the developments in the […]
[PDF file]: […] more traditional; and not just, as JeffreysJones implies, among the upper classes. (In fact, perhaps least among the upper classes, so long as they weren’t expected to spy on each other.) That’s partly why, when British governments have felt the need to spy on others, and on their own people, they have tried to […]
[PDF file]: […] Released in 1941, she was immediately interned as an enemy alien and subsequently deported to Germany in 1946. Her detection led to the exposure of a German spy in the US codenamed ‘Agent Crown’ (a.k.a. Guenther Rumrich). MI5 passed information about him to the FBI, who duly unearthed his network.1 This led to the […]
[PDF file]: The Spy Who Would be Tzar The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground Kevin Coogan London and New York: Routledge, 2022, p/b, £22.99 Robin Ramsay Author Coogan died fairly recently at 67.1 About 20 years ago I met him when he visited the UK, I published one of his essays2 and a […]
[PDF file]: The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are . . . the transgender spy Olivia Frank ISBN 978-1-9160963-0-1 £14.99 p/b available from Amazon.co.uk Robin Ramsay Robin Ramsay This is what £50,000 in notes looks like. They were left in the boot of Olivia Frank’s car – by someone apparently from […]
[PDF file]: Romeo Spy John Alexander Symonds This is a free download at . O n what basis can one review a book? I wonder, because I haven’t read this properly: I’ve skimmed it and noted some sections. Much of it is territory I am not competent in and I have little idea how one would […]
[PDF file]: Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less Roderick Russell Dr. Arthur Porter, the former chair of Canada’s spy watchdog, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), is in prison in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada where he faces multiple charges that include allegations of bribe taking, money laundering and conspiracy. Two […]
[PDF file]: The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold Tim Tate London: Bantam Press, 2021, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay I have been rewatching The West Wing.1 In one of the early episodes, as some complex foreign policy event unravels, one of the characters wistfully says, ‘How I miss the Cold War’. Yes, it was […]
[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;(12) and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]
