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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

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[PDF file]: […] his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military intelligence. Le […]

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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

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[PDF file]: […] One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry Crane, ‘was deeply involved in this’ and regularly passed information from MI5 onto the Labour Party’s national agent and witch-hunter in chief, Sarah Barker. This relationship ‘between right-wingers in the Labour Party and MI5 was held close, and nothing was written down’. Wilson was […]

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[…] cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael Josselson, the CIA agent who had set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom, had told Irving Kristol, the coeditor of Encounter, that he should run a review “by one of […]

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[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

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[PDF file]: […] Mr. Kennedy’s. My mind simply couldn’t absorb it all and Louise was struck dumb, her eyes wide open in amazement. Lish introduced the double as a fellow agent and apologized for not preparing us for this shocking experience. We all sat down at the kitchen table. Later I would learn that many American Presidents […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] junior minister at Min Tech, John Stonehouse duly obeyed MI5 instructions and reported his contacts with Czech diplomats. MI5 still tried to smear him as a Czech agent. 26 58. This period is discussed in detail in Dorril and Ramsay part 4. 59. Broad and Geiger (eds.) p. 103 60. Ibid. 61. Verney letter […]

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[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

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