Langley Pierce Interproducts, Perth, Scotland, 1994, £9.95 Strange little book, 90 pages listing and, it claims, identifying the shortwave radio stations used by the world’s intelligence services to broadcast coded messages – groups of numbers – to field agents and stations. Want to eavesdrop on Mossad’s numbers? SIS’s? The KGB’s? etc etc. Is any of … Read more
[…] an important and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza’s father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know […]
[…] thus preventing him from giving evidence at the trail of unfortunate Libyans designated as the patsies. The same thing happened to Abraham Bolden, a black Secret Service agent who wanted to tell the Warren Commission about an apparent plot to kill JFK in early November 1963 in Chicago. The report said that they had […]
[…] It is improbable that MI5 (presumably) would have chosen someone like Wright for the job, presumably, of penetrating the KAU. And if this ‘Peter Wright’ was an agent for MI5, say, why would the Kenyan authorities have expelled him? ‘Wright’, surely, on being harassed, would simply have said, ‘Call the office.’ It might be […]
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
[…] and his supporters. A friend of the Asquiths (Maud Allen) was appearing, as a dancer, in a production of Wilde’s Salome. Pemberton-Billing said she was a German agent corrupting British morals and sapping the nation’s ability to see the war through to a grim conclusion. Allen was an easy target, she had once modelled […]
[…] the Germans; and the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be […]
[…] Rochemont as a conduit.() Having provided the money, the CIA also had ‘psy warrior’ Joseph Bryan () participate in early script conferences and monitor the filming. Another agent, Carleton Alsop, was on hand to view the film as it neared completion. Little wonder that the film’s ending differed from that of the book. ( […]
[…] it in an issue that for the first time advertised copies of Qadhafi’s Green Book. That should be enough to have Mr. Roads register as a Libyan agent, even though in other instances Nexus has, for instance, reviewed books which explicitly condemn CIA nation-building involvement in the creation of Qaddafy’s state. Best, Kenn Thomas […]
[…] than increased surveillance and trans-national co-operation once the pass has already been sold on free movement of peoples, goods, services and pathogens. The security forces’ role as agent of state formation and of socio-political control needs to be taken much more seriously in this context the terrorism that fuels acceptance of surveillance and […]
