[…] a Soviet agent’. Wright’s friend James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter-intelligence division, had been at that 1967 meeting and, as a result, had used his super- secret Special Investigation Group to investigate Brandt. The SIG, basically Angleton and a couple of his right-wing cronies, concluded that Brandt was “a KGB agent’. Wright later […]
[…] such as ‘national security’ have been used to meet a variety of perceived threats. En route she discusses intelligently, if not originally, the major encounters between the secret state and its opponents and/or victims. Because there is so much information in this period, inevitably the most interesting and most detailed section is on the […]
[…] did, in fact, know the identity of the supplier. In his book on Lord Lucan, ‘Trail of Havoc’, published in 1987, he wrote: “The first of the Secret Service information packs to reach Private Eye had come by the way of The Times in 1974. A reporter on the paper had started to check […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it […]
[…] of June 23 had been delayed. What the Task Force did not know was that in the week of June 20, LLM was conducting ‘highly sensitive’ and secret negotiations with the Government to effectively exempt out-of-town car parks from most of the tax, a deal worth £20 million or more to Tesco’s. That week, […]
[…] was allowed to go my own way. During my duties with MI5 I also maintained a very close personal and professional relationship with an officer from the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Whilst a serving SIS officer (he) joined a private detective agency with which I was associated, and carried out private investigations of a […]
Douglas Macleod Edinburgh: Birlinn; £9.99, p/b Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret history. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish […]
First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster […]
[…] a million-dollar inheritance’ and could call on contacts in ‘Parisian radical circles’ (chapter 9); on his own account he had spent the early sixties working on ‘top secret projects’ at the US Department of Defense (chapter 2). To all intents and purposes, Stark appeared out of nowhere in 1969. Details are equally thin after […]
[…] be the work of the group which organised the assassination.) The closest anyone has come to identifying such a meta-conspiracy is Fletcher Prouty. In his book The Secret Team (1) he described a loose alliance of individuals centred round the upper echelons of the CIA, with members elsewhere throughout the Federal bureaucracies, and with […]
