[…] 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: […]
[…] registration plates, the major was safely brought past the Soviet military check point east of Vienna. Russian long-term intentions were a hard nut to crack and the KGB was a ruthless opponent. There was little doubt as to the immediate post-war Soviet aim of bringing Austria under Communist control. After the 1947 crackdown in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] widely viewed TV slots and the most influential papers, they could also insist that no opposition views were aired alongside their own. Countless millions were fed ‘ KGB shoots Pope’, while the acquittal of the Bulgarians last March was lucky to hit the back pages. The real plot against the Pope – by Ali […]
