[…] exchange, the ADL apparently enjoys privileged access to police and FBI files. This is what happened in San Francisco, where a police intelligence officer (and former CIA agent in El Salvador) named Tom Gerard has been indicted for passing confidential police intelligence files to the local ADL office. Another principal in this case is […]
[…] was a dangerous and particularly nasty organisation. It also welcomed the National Front’s ‘political soldiers’ when they set up shop in Belfast; and Bingham served as election agent to George Seawright, a fascist and sectarian bigot who had even managed to get himself expelled from Paisley’s DUP. Seawright had come from Glasgow, where he’d […]
[…] the Foreign Office and MI6. (Christie; A. Read and D. Fisher, Colonel Z, 1984) De Courcy, Kenneth Hugh B. 1909. Secretary to the Imperial Policy Group; personal agent to Sir Stewart Menzies, Chief of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from November 1939; reported also to Butler (q.v.) and to Chamberlain during the late 1930s on […]
[…] Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime.’ (50) His views weren’t universally shared, and by October 1985 an Organisers’ Bulletin was urging members to ‘make an effort to be […]
[…] the American Federation of Labor (AFL) representative in Europe for many years following the Second World War, and was, in the words of Philip Agee, ‘principal CIA agent for control of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’.(23) They met the leaders of Force Ouvrière, again in February, to discuss mutual problems, including the […]
[…] Pincher in Too Secret Too Long says’Fedora’ was ‘definitely not Viktor Lessiovsky, as has been claimed. The most likely candidate seems to be Vladimir Chuchuken, a KGB agent at the UN in New York from 1962 to 1977’ (p609). Chuchukin is named as a KGB disinformation officer in Barron’s previous book The KGB (1974) […]
Douglas Macleod Edinburgh: Birlinn; £9.99, p/b <www.birlinn.co.uk> Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret history. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish … Read more
Just for the historical record, these rather faded cuttings from the Daily Express are just two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam … Read more
[…] of a President. HOSTY, James P., Jr. (with Thomas Hosty). Assignment: Oswald. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996. viii + 328 pps. Illustrated, index. Hosty, the Dallas FBI agent who destroyed a note from Lee Harvey Oswald on the orders of SAG Gordon Shanklin, here tells his story. Few surprises, good on FBI procedure and […]
[…] Post. Expelled from his local Conservative Association after distributing racist leaflets in Bradford, but readmitted, apparently in 1991: in April 1991 he was acting as an election agent for the Conservative Party in Bradford. Member of Western Goals (UK) and their main contact in Yorkshire. Enjoyed close links with the BNP until they were […]
