[…] associations. The Provisionals dealt with him indirectly through MI6 officer James Allan.(5) In a bizarre twist the Provos became convinced from contacts abroad that he was a KGB agent.(6) Who Is/Was Who Brian McDermott – aged 11, was found in the River Lagan, Sept. 1973, not far from the Kincora home. His body had […]
[…] conclusively backs up Haig’s charge. ‘Text No. 3 is journalist Claire Sterling’s book The Terrorist (sic; Terror) Network, which goes a step further and claims that the KGB is the mastermind behind practically every international terrorist act. ‘Text No. 4 is the same text, aggressively waved in the face of the authors of Text […]
[…] Turner’s column proper will begin in the next issue. It must surely rank as one of the silliest ‘silly season’ stories of all time. The most important KGB defector ever unmasks the ‘spy of the century’ — and it turns out to be a little old lady from suburban Bexleyheath who sells the Morning […]
[…] issues a magazine called Counterpoint, devoted to the exposure and analysis of Soviet disinformation. The trail began with the defection of Stanislas Levchenko, a Major in the KGB. He went over to the Americans in 1979, spent a year working with the Readers’ Digest’s John Barron, during which he briefed Barron for his KGB: […]
[…] Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; Crozier’s financial funnel, the International Freedom Fund Establishment. The central chapters for me are those on Britain in the […]
[…] was merely a warm-up for a second Massie/MI5 special – 22nd February 1988, Daily Express, “Labour leader Neil Kinnock is to be offered an MI5 briefing on KGB attempts to infiltrate the Labour Party…. Such a meeting would be on ‘Privy Council terms’ ” – i.e. Kinnock would be unable to discuss its contents […]
[…] Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin – notably the latter, who disappeared without trace – our spooks learned that the KGB […]
[…] the streets when JFK was killed. He claimed he had been an intelligence officer who had been working with Lee Harvey Oswald and been asked by the KGB to kill Oswald to try to derail the assassination plot. (This is the point at which I ceased to believe this tale. No way, José. The […]
Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of […]
[…] selection of primary sources ranging from official archives in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the USA to private collections and even the records of the KGB (mostly used in the section devoted to the Hess affair). Costello’s assiduous pursuit of documentary evidence and his willingness, for the sake of historical accuracy, to […]
