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Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5
[…] about this area, and introduces nothing new of any substance. After 172 pages of non-starters we meet the chapter ‘The Director General of MI5 – Spyrnaster or Spy?’. This does not really address nor answer the question, but partially covers the Chapman Pincher Hollis-was-guilty and the Anthony Glees Hollis-was-innocent axis, without reaching any conclusion. […]
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What’s been did and hid
[…] GCSB’s Big Brothers) systematically spied on the UN. So, the answer is that spying on the UN is in America’s interests, and that the very junior NZ spy agency in the covert alliance is simply doing what it is told. Nothing has changed in 20 years, the UN is still a prime target for […]
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The gentleman in velvet
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing […]
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Secret Underground Cities, and, Secret Nuclear Bunkers
Secret Underground Cities: an account of some of Britain’s subterranean defence, factory and storage sites in the Second World War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1999, £14.95 (sb) Secret Nuclear Bunkers: the passive defence of the western world during the Cold War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 2002, £19.95 (hb) … Read more
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Mind Control and the American Government
[…] haunts the democratic nations. All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defence […]
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PR, espionage and language
[…] travellers ‘to watch out for foreign spies using undercover techniques ranging from the sex trap to lavish hospitality'(); teaching models for schools: ‘Ask students to chose a spy from history and create a secret fact file on their chosen spy, giving personal details as well as summaries of their main missions’ () ; and […]
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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”
[…] the row.’ The agent was Gunter Guillaume, special assistant to the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. On 24 April 1974 Guillaume was arrested as an East German spy. On 6 May 1974 Brandt, a friend of Wilson, resigned, ostensibly as a result of revelations about Guillaume.(2) We know of no evidence that in his […]
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Re:
[…] of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. ‘Spooks’ are […]
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Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis
More, please In an account of his career as a writer of spy fiction (Guardian 16 November ’89) John Le Carré referred to the hostile reaction received by his (unnamed) second book, presumably The Looking Glass War: ‘Critics and public alike rejected the novel, but this time the spies were cross. And since the […]
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