[…] conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book KGB were laughably incompetent, forgeries which would fool no-one and which had zero distribution as far as I know on this country’s left. And their incompetence brings […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] when another Soviet source ‘Fedora’ notified the FBI that Jack Childs was about to meet with Soviet contacts. The FBI were worried that this might be a KGB attempt to determine whether the FBI knew about the Childs link in the CPUSA/Soviet financial affairs. In the end the rendezvous went ahead and nothing untoward […]
[…] because to the Soviets it appeared that Wynne was a businessman they might recruit. For this reason, according to Brook-Shepherd, Wynne never came under suspicion by the KGB. (3) In some ways then, Wynne, somewhat on the sidelines, became an innocent, though no doubt willing, pawn in a complex intelligence operation by British Intelligence. […]
[…] Ibid The spooks handled the launch of the first volume of The Mitrokhin Archive so badly that I only found out from his obituary that former senior KGB Archivist Vasili Mitrokhin had been a KGB dissident years before he started compiling his private archive. (The Guardian, 4 February 2004) In the obituary Professor Andrew […]
[…] an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists as a double agent of the KGB or GRU! Russell proposes that, having been sent to the USSR as part of a phony ‘military defectors’ programme run by the CIA or ONI, the […]
[…] sponsor of groups called the Committee for Christian Aid to War Prisoners and Committee for Justice and Trade which were working on behalf of German war criminals. KGB shot the Pope (not) A pretty large frisson of excitement ran through sections of the Western media on 1 April (!) at news reports that East […]
Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, […]
[…] pass it.(3) The letter to O’Hara reflects this inability to tell truth from fiction. Gerry Gable is accused of being in some kind of plot with the KGB to kill Lyndon LaRouche’s people in Paris some years ago.(4) In making this accusation he grossly libels an academic and writer by saying that Gerry had […]
[…] 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 […]
