[…] is the explanation for this unbelievable piece of political camouflage? The only credible answer to date is supplied by Lester Coleman, who claims to have been an agent of the CIA and the lesser known Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) for eight years. In his Trail of the Octoptus: Front Beirut to Lockerbie -Inside the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] guerrillas and killed the following month. At the time of his death, both Uruguayan policemen and their victims testified to his role as a torturer. Another CIA agent, the Cuban Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, was later to reveal that Mitrione had once tortured four homeless men to death as a demonstration for his Uruguayan students. […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The true story of Searchlight agent Tim Hepple This is Larry O’Hara’s reply to the Searchight pamphlet At War With Society (which, in turn, was a response to Larry’s A Lie Too Far). Unlike A Lie Too Far, however, this has been professionally desk-topped, edited, proof-read and printed. This is 28 pages, many of […]
[…] 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 […]
