[…] sense of the complete contradiction between the Foreign Office files on Hess (all but one of which were released last year) and documentary evidence found in the KGB and State Department archives. The former adds nothing to our knowledge of the episode: they reveal the prisoner to have been a paranoid wreck of a […]
[…] Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. ‘I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East German intelligence, Markus Wolff; and former head of West German intelligence, Heribert Hellenbroich, to name a single important histo-ical event […]
[…] Sterling (Obituaries in the Guardian 29 June 1996 and Independent 26 June 1996). Author of two books The Time of the Assassins, (Ali Agca, run by the KGB, shot the Pope), and The Terror Network (KGB running world terrorism), which did much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the […]
[…] London; its editor lives in Greenwich. Cold war, disinformation war In the 1980s the Second Cold War was fought partly by disinformation. The U.S. ran the ‘ KGB terror network’ story, through Clare Sterling, with help from the Israelis, messers Crozier and Moss and others, and then the KGB-shot-the-Pope story. Against that the Soviet […]
[…] the previously revealed fat ASIO file on Clark going back to the 1950s, was enough for a number of Australian papers to allege that Clark was a KGB agent. The Herald Sun (24 August 1996) ran a front-page story headlined ‘Red Agent?’. The question mark disappeared in the columns which followed as Oleg Gordievsky […]
[…] neo-fascist movement in Europe. In the CIA’s defence, it can be argued that in Africa (as opposed to Italy), the U.S. CIA is now responding to Soviet KGB manoeuvres on a grand scale, and not merely provoking them. This KGB threat has been used to justify the CIA’s strong involvement with Moroccan intelligence forces […]
[…] the United States. He says ‘the decisive blow was struck by…. Ramparts. … which had got its material from the Czechoslovak StB operation on behalf of the KGB.’ Even if this is true — and there is no particular reason to believe it; and Crozier offers none — the point Crozier thinks he is […]
[…] the streets when JFK was killed. He claimed he had been an intelligence officer who had been working with Lee Harvey Oswald and been asked by the KGB to kill Oswald to try to derail the assassination plot. (This is the point at which I ceased to believe this tale. No way, José. The […]
[…] as corporates from competing hemispheres will require similarly focused sophisticates to counter them. This excludes British/US spooks whose private security companies, give or take a few ex- KGB bods, are all Anglo-Saxon, with personnel institutionalised by specific national agendas, including the commercial. This not only conditions a mind set, which includes belief in racial […]
[…] that Oxfam and the Red Cross — and, by implication, many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern incident in which MI6 and the CIA were backing different […]
