[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] KOREANS 1954 FO 1955 WEST BERLIN SPYING FOR SOVIETS WITH BRITISH KNOWLEDGE 1959 FO 1960 MECAS MET PHILBY IN BEIRUT PRIOR TO MID EASTERN POSTING 1961 ARRESTED KGB MOLE MARRIED TO MI6 SECRETARY GILLIAN ALLEN BLAKER, SIR PETER (ALLAN RENSHAW) KCMG (1983) PC (83) BORN 4.10.22 NEW COLLEGE OXFORD ‘INFORMED TRADITIONAL MODERATE; STUBBORN IN […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
