[…] and identities, and at dawn a special plainclothes squad of carabinieri collected some dozen complete with transmitters and codes. As Young recalls, the Germans had issued each agent with his equipment in a little suitcase with a Royal Stewart tartan cover. Even after weeding out the less promising cases, there were more than the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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, […]
[…] vast legal costs and heavy financial damage suffered personally by Oyston appears to be more than £250 million. The former fish and chip shop owner and insurance agent Michael Murrin claims that his allegations of corruption at Preston Council prompted Operation Angel, a £25 million inquiry during which the Lancashire Constabulary Commercial Fraud Squad […]
[…] and Wilson regimes.” Two months later appeared the Spectator article. * * * Private Eye never went as far as naming Sternberg or Plummer as a KGB agent. The libel laws would have prevented any such smear. But following Sternberg’s death in 1978, Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick) had no such qualms in his book […]
