[…] ARNOLD-FOSTER, MARK B 16.4.20 1939-45 ROYAL NAVY 1946 DEMOBBED LT 1948 BLOCKADED IN BERLIN 1954 ADMITTED (G 4.2.80) THAT HE HAD WORKED FOR BRITISH INTELLIGENCE, SMUGGLED A SPY INTO SOVIET UNION. JOURNALIST. LATER GUARDIAN DIPLOMATIC EDITOR ARRAN, LORD ARTHUR KATTENDYKE STRANGE DAVID ARCHIBALD GORE B 5.7.10, D 23.2.83 BALLIOL COLL OXFORD 1939 ATTACHE BERNE […]
[…] later made to look like a suicide to prevent political and diplomatic turmoil.’ Also mentioned by Baker is one Mai Pederson, a US Army sergeant and alleged spy, who formed a close friendship with Kelly and introduced him to the Baha’i faith.(24) She found claims that he committed suicide difficult to accept. ‘I told […]
[…] According to David Leigh’s sources the MI5 officer Arthur Martin told friends before his tranfer to MI6 in November 1964, ‘I did hear that —— was a spy.’ An MI5 officer from K branch confirmed to Leigh that ‘We knew that —— was a CIA agent, or, if not an agent, at least very […]
[…] it ‘private and confidential’, as publicity could kill it.’ What this ‘action group’ did is unknown. (86) It has become quite widely accepted that Ellis was a spy for the Soviets. This story first took root in Chapman Pincher’s Their Trade is Treachery. Pincher added to it in a letter (6 May 1981) in […]
[…] may breach European privacy legislation and the European Commission is investigating four possible breaches of European law (Europe to Investigate Legality of RIP, 27/10/00, www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14288.html and Net Spy Act may be Illegal, Independent 5/11/00, www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Update/ 2000-11/spy051100.shtml) A public consultation on the draft Codes of Practice (on Interception of Communications, Covert Surveillance and the use […]
[…] regularly in specialized investigative publications like Covert Action Information Bulletin, Bulletin d’Information sur Intervention Clandestine (France), Intelligence/Parapolitics (now Intelligence Newsletter) (France), Lobster (UK), National Reporter (formerly Counter spy) (US, recently defunct), The Public Eye, Celsius (formerly Article 31) (Belgium), Searchlight (UK) and the now defunct State Research Bulletin (UK). A great deal more is […]
[…] 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, Chapman Pincher. In a piece […]
[…] Miranda Ingram, who worked with Michael Bettaney, describes working conditions and MI5 philosophy. Boring for her and for us…. Tatler (June 1984) Robert Harris reports on the spy recruitment procedures. There was some talk of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act for naming MI5 and MI6 premises. They are: MI5 recruitment (positive vetting) – […]
Paul Todd, Jonathan Bloch, and Patrick Fitzgerald London: Zedbooks, 2009, £14.99, p/b, £39.95 h/b This book is published as the debate rages in America about whether or not the activities of the Bush regime, specifically the torture of various combat detainees and suspects rendered from various parts of the world, should be subject to … Read more
Annie Machon Lewes (East Sussex): Book Guild, 2005, h/b, £17.95 It is hard to ‘see’ this book because a lot of the material, especially in the first half, is familiar, half-remembered from the press reporting of the Shayler-Machon drama and the book Defending the Realm by Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth. Nonetheless, familiar or … Read more
