The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Reading. See his biographical page at ” 7 . Garrick Alder alerted me to this. 8 2 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the Guardian’s journalists.19 But the material is all worthwhile – even the page in which Robin Whittaker presents Chapman Pincher’s case that Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent. I don’t agree with the thesis but it is interesting to meet it again. On the down side, there’s a jokey tone to some of it […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

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[PDF file]: […] who was the CIA’s Domestic Contacts Division officer in Dallas at the time of the assassination. After graduating from Princeton, Ford joined the CIA as a career agent assigned to the office of Training, except for the one year he was assigned to Task Force W to work with RFK on the covert actions […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

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[PDF file]: […] confusing. The English are not the only people who produce eccentrics, and Hastings’s narrative features dozens; best among them probably the British double – or triple – agent Ronald Seth, aptly codenamed ‘Blunderhead’, who gets a chapter to himself. Apart from a liar and a fantasist he was – or portrayed himself as – […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

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[PDF file]: […] New Times. In his new biography of James Klugmann, one of the Party’s leading intellectuals, he shows beyond any shadow of doubt, that the man was an agent of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB.1 Now it can be argued that this is hardly new information. On the Far Left, various Trotskyists and […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] about the Clinton emails through highly placed members of the Russian government, and ex-FBI Director James Comey, fired by Trump, even said that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Barr and his boys are operating on a different theory—that Mifsud was part of a setup by the CIA and FBI to smear Trump. Pursuing this […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] about the Clinton emails through highly placed members of the Russian government, and ex-FBI Director James Comey, fired by Trump, even said that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Barr and his boys are operating on a different theory—that Mifsud was part of a setup by the CIA and FBI to smear Trump. Pursuing this […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

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[PDF file]: […] unfolding, the FBI descended on Dallas and improperly seized control of the investigation and, at around 11.45pm, Lt. Day reluctantly handed the rifle (CE 139) to FBI agent Vince Drain, who departed with it for a flight to Washington DC and FBI headquarters. Drain left without Day’s accompanying fingerprint materials. Lt. Day declined to […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian publisher go-between who was secretly a KGB agent and who stole the huge sum of money (some $3m by today’s value) that Iraqi intelligence paid into a Hong Kong bank account. The KGB agent […]

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