[…] relations at the time was facilitated by MI5. For not only did they have the Party bugged and penetrated, they knew about the money from the Soviet embassy which was keeping it going.22 I have suggested before in these columns that had MI5 exposed the Soviet funding after the Red Army rolled its tanks […]
[…] videos published on 1 August he referred to himself as a journalist, for the first and last time. He had also been in contact with the US Embassy in Kyiv, but said he had only been offered ‘empty bromides’. This lack of diplomatic intervention means that the US Department of State had refused to […]
[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]
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[PDF file]: […] comedy in the following passage: 4 Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, (London: Picador, 2006) p.236 ‘When I asked a former diplomat from the Russian embassy about the possibility that Burgess was secretly employed by British intelligence, he told me that a volubly indiscreet drunk such as Burgess, who also happened to […]
[…] of the SBU headquarters for the use of CIA employees. Nalyvaichenko was alleged to have begun work for the CIA during a diplomatic posting to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. The source for these assertions had been SBU chief during the Yanukovich presidency, and his remarks were made to Russian media in 2014, […]
[…] boost to support for the IRA in Northern Ireland. It is worth remembering that on 2 February a large crowd of protesters actually burned down the British Embassy in Dublin in retaliation. How does Kitson deal with this somewhat crucial episode? He tells his readers that he had agreed to send Paras under his […]
[PDF file]: […] secret service the whole story but confesses that it was nothing more than could have been read in the newspapers. He was also quizzed by the Chinese embassy on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. […]
[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]
