The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

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[PDF file]: […] nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, was suspicious; and when a KGB officer, Anatoliy Golitsyn, defected and announced that Goleniewski was a false defector, Angleton’s doubts were confirmed. At which point it all got very strange and very […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] the two books by Craig Unger on Trump’s links to Russia.22 Unger’s main source (in the more recent book) is one Yuri Shvets, who is an ex- KGB officer – having quit in 1990 and then defected to the West three years later.23 If Mr Shvets is to be relied upon as to the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

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[PDF file]: […] CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten Days That Saved The West, a book in which Costello supported Russian suspicions […]

Holding Pattern

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[PDF file]: […] these changes were not immediately explicable.1 4 If Mr Putin has a double (or more) the impersonation program could conceivably have begun during his time with the KGB during the Cold War. A Putin lookalike was photographed among a Soviet delegation to New Zealand in 1986. The Kremlin claims Putin was elsewhere at the […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

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[PDF file]: […] Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great […]

Secrecy in Britain

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[PDF file]: […] withdrawn, and this has happened, in the same case, to several associated files. Ironically, the contents of the file were a copy of one discovered in a KGB archive, which is freely available. It seems clear that what is being protected is less to do with security, but more to do with the official […]

David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer

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[PDF file]: […] The Spy and the Traitor (2018) in which he exhumed the discredited story that the (then safely dead Michael Foot) had been paid some £1,500 by the KGB in the 1960s. The revival of this story came in plenty of time for the 2019 general election and was guaranteed to excite the right-wing press.2 […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

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[PDF file]: […] neo-fascist movement in Europe. In the CIA’s defence, it can be argued that in Africa (as opposed to Italy), the U.S. CIA is now responding to Soviet KGB manoeuvres on a grand scale, and not merely provoking them. This KGB threat has been used to justify the CIA’s strong involvement with Moroccan intelligence forces […]

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