[…] 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 […]
[…] Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order of Lenin, one […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] CPGB. The same thing was happening in the United States. The man who collected the dollars from the Soviets for the American Communist Party was an FBI agent. Like MI5, the FBI let the funding continue. In effect MI5 and the FBI ran the American and British communist parties as honeytraps for their labour […]
William C. Chasey ProMotion Publishing, 3368 F Governor Drive, Suite 144, San Diego, CA 92122, $19.95. ISBN 1-887314-01-6 Chasey was the foreign agent 4221, that is a lobbyist registered with the US Department of Justice, who took a PR contract from the government of Libya to try and help normalise relations with the U.S. […]
[…] was not in Mexico City on October 10th. The man responsible for CIA surveillance operations in Mexico City was George F. Munroe, a fervent right-winger and ex-FBI agent. He was responsible for the wiring of the Soviet Embassy and Cuban Consulate. According to HSCA information there were also human contacts with two spies within […]
