[…] and particularly to Warsaw Pact countries. This may be one of the facts which so worried MI5. One is forced to ask, therefore, what action would the KGB take if they had evidence of some theoretical indiscretion on the part of a British prime minister. There could be no consideration of approaching the PM […]
[…] developed in the 1970s, notably by the Israelis, who could see the value of being able to label the Palestinians as part of ‘terrorism sponsored by the KGB’. The first conference of the Mossad-sponsored Jonathan Institute, in 1979, centred round this theme. (46) Four months after Reagan’s inauguration, in May 1981, Ali Agca shot […]
[…] concert with others. Whatever the truth is, it seems likely that Kennedy may have contributed, unwittingly, to his own death. Those who mixed in Oswald’s demi-monde of KGB agents and Cuban exiles…..’ We’ve had supporters of Castro and now he gives us KGB agents! Which ones, Professor? The only KGB agent in the story […]
[…] full-time employee of the CPGB, Gable was an astonishingly credulous partner to whoever it was in MI5 who fed him the baloney about Phil Kelly and the KGB. Somebody capable of recycling that much nonsensical hearsay — and remaining unrepentant about it — is not to be trusted. (8) There aren’t many areas on […]
[…] but it is interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner wondered what the Soviets knew about Oswald and sent someone to contact the KGB in Mexico City. (Innocent […]
[…] of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 […]
[PDF file]: […] recommendation and they worked together in Section V (SIS’s See Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev (editors), The Crown Jewels: The British secrets at the heart of the KGB archives (Yale: Yale University Press, 1998), Appendix II. 2 Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). 3 See […]
An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as ‘the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy’ for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome’s work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, […]
[…] that the head of the Soviet equivalent of the TUC, the Soviet All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in the mid 1970s was Alexander Shelepin, a former KGB head?(3) Is it not extremely likely, at the minimum, that Mr Scargill’s colleague, Alain Simone, was a former (?) servant of the Soviet state? In any […]
[…] old, reliable, NYT, still in there, still muddying the waters 26 years later. Angleton’s paranoia about the Soviet Union was amplified grotesquely by his encounter with the KGB defector Golitsyn, and his fantastic conspiracy theories about the global schemes of the KGB. (These are elegantly rubbished by Gordon Brook-Shepherd in his The Storm Birds: […]
