[…] population: create confusion and cynicism about the political system. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the Russia of today: ‘It is incredible, but a group of cynical, corrupt ex- KGB officers with access to vast quantities of illegal money—operating in a country with religious discrimination, extremely low church attendance, and a large Muslim minority—have somehow made […]
[PDF file]: […] government and especially in the final 40 pages, a number of points are made. It emerges that Ken isn’t really left-wing at all. We learn that the KGB looked at him in the ‘80s and concluded that he wasn’t a Trotskyist. When he was mayor of London the mayor of Berlin concluded that none […]
[…] consists of, Madsen describes someone as CIA because they were so named in the 1968 Who’s Who in the CIA, published by East German intelligence (or the KGB). Madsen does not want to acknowledge the book’s provenance and tells us that the book was published in West Berlin. This book is well known enough […]
[PDF file]: […] are in control of the Labour Party! Part of the anti-subversion network took seriously claims from MI5 and CIA counterintelligence officers that Harold Wilson might be a KGB agent (though they had no evidence for this other than the suspicion of a Soviet defector). Thus among the network’s members there was the picture of […]
[PDF file]: […] population: create confusion and cynicism about the political system. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the Russia of today: ‘It is incredible, but a group of cynical, corrupt ex- KGB officers with access to vast quantities of illegal money—operating in a country with religious discrimination, extremely low church attendance, and a large Muslim minority—have somehow made […]
[…] sudden disappearance of civil servants Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both of whom possessed key intelligence secrets. The fact that Maclean was suspected of being a Soviet KGB spy and was about to be arrested by MI-5 was a closely guarded secret and something that Burgess was unaware of. So they must have been […]
[PDF file]: […] she did not intend to suggest that LBJ was behind the assassination. See 29 Probably but not provably putting out the Soviet line at the time. The KGB had been informed in 1966 that Johnson did it. See . Joesten’s book is still available. See . 30 It has been widely reported since 2011 […]
[PDF file]: […] consists of, he describes someone as CIA because they were so named in the 1968 Who’s Who in the CIA, published by East German intelligence (or the KGB). Madsen does not want to acknowledge the book’s provenance and tells us that the book was published in West Berlin. This book is well known enough […]
[PDF file]: The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle Geoff Andrews London: I B Tauris, 2016, £20, h/b This is a revelatory book that, in its own quiet, understated way, is likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of […]
[…] sudden disappearance of civil servants Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both of whom possessed key intelligence secrets. The fact that Maclean was suspected of being a Soviet KGB spy and was about to be arrested by MI-5 was a closely guarded secret and something that Burgess was unaware of. So they must have been […]
