[…] my forthcoming book, The Road to 9/11. So instead I will expand on what I spoke about a month ago in Berkeley, concerning Ali Mohamed, Washington’s double agent inside al-Qaeda, and also a chief 9/11 plotter.(1) I want to add important new material tonight. Ali Mohamed, an Egyptian, was a close ally of Osama […]
[…] the rumour our to their secret agents (dozens of them being journalists in South Africa and elsewhere) that not to worry, Gordon is still a loyal BOSS agent. Ignore his book, its just a cunning cover for something else he’s doing. Now you have to give credit where credit is due. BOSS deserves a […]
[…] McCarry is the best of the spook fiction writers. His previous books – The Secret Lovers, Tears of Autumn, and The Merniek Dossier, all feature a CIA agent named Paul Christopher (as does The Last Supper.) Christopher is a ‘singleton’, an agent who works on his own.(This, incidentally, is the role that McCarry had […]
[…] November 1964, ‘I did hear that —— was a spy.’ An MI5 officer from K branch confirmed to Leigh that ‘We knew that —— was a CIA agent, or, if not an agent, at least very close to the Americans.’ (5) The deletions are in Leigh’s account. The minister was Michael Stewart. It is […]
Espionage is two things – a career and a lifestyle. Both can be wildly exciting. Those who deny this have never been spies. Children born to SIS agents enjoy this lifestyle which can have many advantages. The home environment is usually stimulating, cosmopolitan and informed. There can also be one-off bonus such as acquisition of […]
The idea that the Security Service, MI5, colluded with British fascism in the inter-war years is not to be found in the existing literature on the subject. On the contrary the fascists are depicted as the victims, rather than the beneficiaries of MI5’s attentions. MI5, it is generally argued, viewed fascism as a potential danger … Read more
[…] is often difficult to persuade people sufficiently knowledgeable about intelligence matters that that is the case.” Indeed it is. I accept that Cavendish was no longer an agent, though those who met him in every obscure town in the Middle East might disagree. But it is really a matter of splitting hairs. Cavendish did […]
[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]
[…] two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the “Bulgarian Umbrella” murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and the murder of the newspaper owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. Both murders are related to the failed KGB coup […]
[…] among whom were Merlino and Serpieri, and representatives of the Greek regime, including Rauti’s friend Konstantin Plevris, leader of the Nazified ‘4th of August’ movement and an agent of the KYP.(155) Since Plevris was himself the architect of the Greek ‘strategy of tension’, most researchers have supposed that he advised the visiting rightists on […]
