[…] there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was in the Careers Section of London’s Evening Standard when a fiction writer […]
[…] of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, […]
[…] Sidney Reilly is still encountered in Sunday papers on a fairly regular basis, in the same way and in a similar category to the Mitfords, Wallis Simpson, Philby and T. E. Lawrence. Beyond the legend Spence confirms that Reilly was probably one Solomon Rosenblum, from Tsarist Poland, who arrived in the UK, aged 21 […]
[…] you know that it has been alleged that Sir Charles Curran was, for years, a top British Intelligence operative. (Izvestia 20/12/68, based on information supplied by Kim Philby.) Within a couple of days of this ‘top secret’ meeting the head of BOSS called me over to his Pretoria office and told me exactly what […]
[…] wrote of Bethell: ‘In my view the odds are a million to one against Bethell being a security risk in the sense that Maclean and Burgess and Philby were. But I think there may be a chance that he is a security risk in the sense that information, which he may pick up as […]
[…] early 1980s about the anti-subversion crowd which had gathered round Brian Crozier and ISC. It is those which should be remembered rather than his uninteresting book about Philby. John McGuffin died in April. I came across McGuffin as the author and distributor of a fascinating e-mail newsletter about Irish politics, Dispatches. McGuffin was the […]
[…] could be accurate: i.e. the best ‘Red Orchestra’ material came from London where long term Soviet agents (in this case John Cairncross) had access to ENIGMA. Cairncross/ Philby etc got the material from ENIGMA and gave it to the Soviets. Because obscurely the Soviets didn’t know the details of the origins of […]
[…] to look at Mitrokhin and the way he was handled by MI6, messrs Shayler and Tomlinson, the two most important defectors from the British security agencies since Philby, were in exile in one case and in jail in the other. While Shayler was sitting in a French jail the House of Commons had its […]
[…] the evidence he adduces does not amount to conclusive proof, he makes an overwhelming case for rejecting the assumption that it was an Englishman who persuaded Burgess, Philby and Blunt to work for the Soviet Union. The author is an historical detective with a wide knowledge of philosophy, who excels at tracing the threads […]
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine […]
