[PDF file]: […] very obviously an arms procurement conduit for weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, MI6 colluded in the provision of components for the Iraqi ‘Babylon’ Supergun, disavowing its murdered agent Jonathon Moyle in Chile, and allowed British businessmen at Matrix-Churchill, who were MI6 agents, to be prosecuted.32 Echoes of this grubby incident have been invoked by […]
[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 […]
[…] 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? […]
[…] 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? […]
[PDF file]: […] has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan Police […]
[PDF file]: […] to Trump, in the same week as a As given by Richard Bennett in his Espionage: Spies and Secrets (London: Virgin Books, 2002): ‘a FLOATER: A freelance agent used for a one-off or occasional intelligence operation. Usually a low-level operative such as a taxi-driver, waiter or similar.’ 8 See, for instance: ‘Election 2019: Arron […]
[…] However the only CIA officer who spoke of the Agency’s role, E. Howard Hunt, did not include Lansdale in his version of the conspiracy;5 and CIA contract agent Chauncey Holt, one of the three ‘tramps’, also does not mention Lansdale in his various accounts. many years at the Financial Times and Telegraph – knew […]
[…] However the only CIA officer who spoke of the Agency’s role, E. Howard Hunt, did not include Lansdale in his version of the conspiracy;5 and CIA contract agent Chauncey Holt, one of the three ‘tramps’, does not mention Lansdale in his various accounts. many years at the Financial Times and Telegraph – knew what […]
[PDF file]: […] York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013). of deep reporting. We learn, for instance, that a CIA staffer in Mexico City served in the OSS (the CIA’s precursor) with an agent Julia McWilliams, best known to millions as the celebrated chef Julia Child’. Deep reporting? Big deal! Dean’s concluding paragraph: ‘There is enough uncovered here to give […]
