[PDF file]: […] the covert heroes of the Cold War, the people who had stolen the U.S. atomic secrets, who had worked with the Rosenbergs, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean. To the callow cadets they seemed majestic figures, beyond the reach of mere mortals . . . .’ 26 Washington Station is also peppered with expression […]
[PDF file]: […] 173) As well as the history of histories, there is an interwoven narrative about the various services’ activities; so there is much about WW2 and Burgess and Maclean et al. Every now and then an interesting little snippet pops up. There’s this for example. SIS abandoned Passport Control Office as its cover for officers […]
[PDF file]: […] were not privy to the recordings? Initially Tate takes the reader on a journey through the post-WW2 history of Soviet espionage in the UK: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Blunt etc. This is the necessary background to Peter Wright’s obsessive hunt for Soviet ‘moles’. Tate then steers us through two big events. The first is […]
[PDF file]: […] been properly considered by Davies. Nor has he considered that the influence of John C Calhoun11 on neo-liberal theorists and politicians has never been greater (as Nancy MacLean explained in Democracy in Chains12) and is being played out in politics today. (Calhoun was the architect of the Civil War in America, whose repercussions still […]
