[PDF file]: […] foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military […]
[PDF file]: […] his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex-intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of […]
[PDF file]: […] also be subject to court approved warrants: Edward Snowden: Because, so again, it gets back to legitimate secrets and illegitimate secrets. Some spying from my perspective, ‘career spy’ is okay, right? Joe Rogan: Agreed. Edward Snowden: If you have hacked a terrorist phone, and you’re getting some information about that, useful. Joe Rogan: Agreed. […]
[…] it is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]
[PDF file]: […] 5 First, in a wonderful piece of no-spin spin, an interactive photo of Sir John in his speedos was officially released. Taken by his wife, it told spy chiefs in authoritarian countries that Britain is a civilian nation and its spies conform to its culture; it told taxpayers that Sir John is of, not […]
[PDF file]: […] not be spotted by the Americans? Apparently so.) Penkovsky’s information is one of the few instances in the Cold War I can think of where what a spy did really mattered.75 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.76 72 A study in Foreign Policy states that […]
[…] not be spotted by the Americans? Apparently so.) Penkovsky’s information is one of the few instances in the Cold War I can think of where what a spy did really mattered.74 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.75 Who’s beaming who? The so-called ‘Havana syndrome’ is […]
[PDF file]: […] Marshall Plan, for example, over a year away in 1947; before even the March arrest of Dr Allan Nunn May and the revelation of the Canadian-based Soviet spy ring; and before Churchill’s American speech in which he first used the term ‘Iron Curtain’. 64 15 February 1948 that he dined with Christopher Warner, who […]
[PDF file]: […] overseas defence commitments. Many resisted, but, as the author points out, by mid-1967: ‘There was no avoiding the conclusion that Britain’s global responsibilities were unsustainable.’ The ‘Soviet spy’ affair of 1971 certainly had potential to turn into a foreign-policy crisis. In the event, the Edward Heath government gambled that it would not and was […]
[…] front. What appears to be evidence supporting the Wikispooks analysis is to be found in Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s ‘Exposed: Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new “Russian spy plot”’.43 At least I think so. But, damn, that article is hard to follow. On the question of the status of the White Helmets in Syria. […]
