[…] think you’ll agree that there was no mention of any wound in the post mortem. Andrew Rosthorn writes: Kenneth de Courcy, 80 year old former personal agent for Churchill’s wartime MI6 chief, Sir Stewart Menzies, says that two files have been stolen from his personnal archive, which is preserved at the Hoover Institution […]
[…] a member of a Roman Catholic sect, a retired rent boy and someone who was later splashed across the front page of The Observer as an SIS agent. We gave a break to a minicab driver who nonetheless carried on sending us abusive faxes for years. There was a troublesome former Private Eye man […]
[…] on the door of an apartment owned by one of Shaw’s boyfriends: it was opened by a fellow named Robin Drury. Drury, a homosexual, had been the ‘agent’ of Christine Keeler during the time of the British sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair in 1963. Like Eddowes I had often wondered whether Shaw […]
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
[…] profits, £9bn and £9.8bn respectively. (2) This was followed by curious press reports that both Shell and BP had hired ex-MI6 staff and a former German intelligence agent to infiltrate Greenpeace (3) and that Tesco had asked MI5 to investigate the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. In an obscure spat about salmon […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] apologies for being late, but this issue is late. The explanation is that the Ramsay half of this operation was persuaded to spend April as an election agent for the Labour party. (And lost!). If the Labour Party and the Lobster seems an odd combination, it is worth pointing out that several of the […]
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
[…] to the American people within the following year, and ordered a plan developed to implement his decision. ‘President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the Secret Service agent who drove his car in the motorcade and the act is plainly visible in the Zapruder film. WATCH THE DRIVER AND NOT KENNEDY WHEN YOU VIEW […]
