[PDF file]: […] to John le Carré. 1 The Little Drummer Girl, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983). 2 Born David John Moore Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, 19 October 1931, ex- MI5, ex-MI6. 3 Agent Running in the Field, (London: Viking, 2019). 4 5 The Little Drummer Girl, foreword. The autobiography of the English-born Mossad field officer Olivia […]
[…] afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Belfast, followed a man into the toilets and propositioned him for sex.’ ‘Elements of the security services’? He means MI5. And why not identify the story and its author? The book’s subtitle, after all, is Spies and the Media. The story was ‘Pub incident that exposed […]
[PDF file]: […] Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that ‘up to 30’ MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the […]
[PDF file]: Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
[PDF file]: […] it didn’t go back to Biblical times), and was thought to be porous, because of the openness of American society. It is partly for this reason that MI5, MI6, SOE, the FBI and OSS – the US’s new, swashbuckling foreign intelligence agency – found it difficult to co-operate. Two other reasons were American (especially […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland Peter Taylor London: Bloomsbury, 2023 Hardback, £17 Nick Must This, the most recent in a long line of Peter Taylor’s works on the conflict in Northern Ireland, has been described in other reviews as ‘compelling’,1 ‘a gripping exploration’2 […]
[PDF file]: […] of Soviet operations and identified dozens of Soviet agents and officers. After he was forced to defect, a grateful CIA debriefed him for months, lent him to MI5, set him up in a nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 59 The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind Anthony Frewin A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments H. P. Albarelli, Jr. Walterville, Oregon: TrineDay, 2009. xxvi + 826 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. At 2.25am on 28 November 1953 Dr Frank R Olson, a U.S. government bacteriologist, […]
[PDF file]: […] 14 government.15 Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community […]
