[…] London. Volume 1 number 3 contained a feature, ‘Espionage after the Cold War’, reports from the proceedings of a conference on 15 November 1991 at which former KGB and former CIA officers spoke together in public for the first time. Among those taking part were former CIA Director William Colby and former KGB General […]
[…] been of some kind of low-level intelligence interest, then he went to the USSR, probably as some kind of false defector organised by Naval Intelligence. When the KGB failed to take the bait he came back to start a new career as a COINTELPRO agent, flirting with Marxism and pro- Cuban activities. (Incidentally, while […]
[…] dilemma: on one hand they were ill at ease with the idea of explaining to the main scientific advisors of the National Security Council (NSC) that the KGB and GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) were researching topics considered in US to be speculative and controversial at best. On the other, they were afraid that the […]
[…] 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 described the supposed evidence in a letter to Chapman Pincher: “Brandt …… himself is very suspect. In the war, he left Germany and […]
[…] IPS which was at the heart of one of the American Right’s conspiracy theories two decades ago, thinly disguised in the Robert Moss/Arnaud de Borchgrave novel about KGB penetration of America, The Spike. (20 Landau, I guess, is an example of the old New Left, who have been right about most things, in my […]
[…] was Mr. Romerstein who accused me of recycling Soviet disinformation, and who, I would guess, is the source of the rumours in US intelligence circles that the KGB were funding Lobster. Another SIS memoir SIS buffs might like to check the Journal of Contemporary History, July 1995, in which former SIS officer Kenneth Benton […]
[…] that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.’ Accompanying this will be ‘a companion documentary special, with Bugliosi addressing myriad conspiracy theories, including those involving the Mafia, the KGB or Fidel Castro in JFK’s assassination.’ One hopes that Bugliosi is doing all this on a pro bono publico basis and eschewing what he terms the […]
[…] formal responsibility, as a condition of restarting normal diplomatic and trade relations with the West, but still denies actually doing it. On pages 210/11 he reports that KGB defector Gordiefsky told them the the ‘KGB rezidentura had……. taken steps to cultivate several highly-placed trade union leaders, among them Richard Brigenshaw, Ray Buckton and Alan […]
[…] is reviewed in Lobster 23, p. 35 (2) So, if two early JFK theorists are now hob-nobbing with the far right, a third was hob-nobbing with the KGB. For the late Ms Meagher, Van Wynsberghe tells us, wrote for an American journal called Minority of One. I confess that before this year I had […]
[…] the Nigerian Civil War, argued for two years that the real requirement was to learn something of the state of Nigerian politics, not the activities of the KGB. There was indirect opposition to Bevin in 1949, and to Eden in 1956….In Northern Ireland, from 1971 onwards, SIS officers came to believe that the Provisional […]
