[…] last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological agents. He was referring to David Wise’s book, Cassidy’s Run: The Secret […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] There is little, if anything, in the case studies which follow Lawrence’s piece that can’t be found in abundance in the domestic history of the US. The agent provocateur has been a routine tool of US capital for at least half a century. (Don’t I remember Dashiel Hammet being one for the Pinkertons before […]
[…] Director General Michael Hanley first quarrelled with Wilson over the case of Judith Hart, Minister of Overseas Development and that “It seems to have been a foreign agent who sparked the row.’ The agent was Gunter Guillaume, special assistant to the West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. On 24 April 1974 Guillaume was arrested as […]
[…] eponymous publishing house, and by Ned Chase, (father of Chevy) who was editor in chief at Putnam’s, and asked by both of them do a book. My agent was the gentlemanly John Schaffner, whose eccentric family reminded everyone of the Sitwells. His wife, Perdita, had, it turned out, been secretary to James Jesus Angleton, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Paul Routledge London: Fourth Estate, 2002, £16.99 In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I reported the snippet of information from a recent biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her … Read more
[…] a dozen attendant murders, corruption or gross ineptitude on the part of the magnicida‘s bodyguard; and, last but by no means least, the presence of a ‘former’ agent of the CIA….. Whether these similarities are evidence of anything, or merely coincidental, is unknown to me. But Mexico, a fabulous, hospitable, cultured nation, is going […]
[…] revealed that the British Government was considering the introduction of a bill under which it would become illegal to claim that any individual is an officer or agent of either the Security Service (MI5) or of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It was also made known that the publication of British Intelligence and Covert […]
