[…] 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 […]
[…] Reader’s Digest article, ‘The Plot to Kill the Pope’, a little later marked the start of a concerted US-based publicity effort to blame the outrage on the KGB through the so-called Bulgarian Connection. (1) The author of the Digest article and many other pieces blaming the rise of international terrorism on the Soviet Union […]
[…] Charles Krauthammer of The New Republic; Princeton historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s UN ambassador and leading AEI figure; Claire Sterling, the promoter of the KGB plot to kill the Pope story in the Reader’s Digest and elsewhere, and Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine and his wife, Midge Decter, executive […]
[…] which killed FRELIMO founder Mondlane and ANC member Ruth First were probably the work of their own people; she describes the ANC’s Joe Slovo as a “ KGB Colonel”; and gives a long account of the deterioration of the Mozambique economy without mentioning that RENAMO, with overt support from South Africa and covert support […]
[…] I mean, the perception among students in those days, or the perception of students was that they were likely to be talent spotted and recruited by the KGB, for instance. And therefore some students were put through a kind of sheep-dip to see if the KGB approached them. They were dressed up to look […]
Just for the historical record, these rather faded cuttings from the Daily Express are just two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam … Read more
[…] husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this period, and that I was one such. For MI5, 1977, the year I left the party, was crucial: as Shayler has stated, they […]
[…] which, it is true, could not be produced in a court of law. But then neither could Solomon’s as she made it clear she was frightened of KGB retaliation.There is a further problem with Solomon’s tale – or, perhaps, with Peter Wright’s telling of it. Wright records her talking to Arthur Martin during her […]
