[…] is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable […]
[PDF file]: […] that Hitler should be appeased by almost any method – including allowing him to exterminate Bolshevism without hindrance. The only condition, it would seem, was that the security of the British Empire was not affected. Channon dismisses the notion that Duff was on any kind of ‘important mission’, but it is worth noting that […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘something fishy’ about him. He considers the validity of this judgement. According to Smith, in the 1930s, surveillance of Orwell ‘was at times paranoid but, from a security standpoint, sporadic and largely peripheral’. During the War, Special Branch, ‘inevitably paranoid’ according to Smith, described him as having ‘advanced communist views’, as attending ‘communist meetings’ […]
[…] is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable […]
[PDF file]: […] British intelligence);8 and Zoe Cooke (related to the Hills, married to an intelligence officer, who worked in Churchill’s War Room during WWII, so clearly had very high security clearance even at an early age).9 Even Bill Phillips, Gray’s original informant, claimed to have travelled extensively in Russia during the Cold War, which may suggest […]
[PDF file]: […] One wellknown CIA critic wrote recently how surprised he had been that Colin Powell was either easily deceived or willing to deceive in his capacity as national security advisor. This same person said to me he was unaware of the role Powell played in attempts to cover up My Lai.7 Amidst the recent excited […]
[…] Wallace sloppy or malicious? Still in Ireland, Bloom turns to Maurice Oldfield, and mentions the 1987 story in the Sunday Times which said Oldfield had: ‘been a security risk when caught “cottaging” in 1980. It was not exactly true, however, but plausible enough to cause damage.’ What does ‘not exactly true’ mean? Oldfield wasn’t […]
[PDF file]: […] is one striking error. In his section on the publication of The Quiet Canadian (1962) about William Stephenson, Moran describes the wartime organisation in New York, British Security Co-ordination (BSC), of which Stephenson was head, as ‘an umbrella organisation tasked with representing the interests of British secret services throughout North and South America’ (p. […]
