[…] Bacon, based on a TV programme she did for the Australian SBS company (Somebody’s Man in Fiji, The Listener December 26 1987). Freeman looks like a CIA agent, actually boasts (eg to Bacon) that he is CIA, and he has ex US military and special forces people working for him. He fits the bill […]
[…] diplomats say.’ Perhaps 5,000 names were given to the military during the massacres in 1965 which left perhaps 250,000 dead. Somehow Kadane had persuaded a senior CIA agent in Indonesia and his diplomatic boss at the time to talk, on the record. The story was run, briefly, in the British serious press. A couple […]
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[…] category which are listed only by name and number, and about which nothing is known, such as; BPL, BHA, blue27/b bomb, freon pe65702a, JEDS, SAEB, tc-83, td-1 agent, nl-1 agent, and many more. In another letter, dated 21 June 1995, in response to my inquiry concerning the use of chemical biological agents in populated […]
[…] Intelligence Service) used as cover the name and address ‘2 Whitehall Court c/o Captain Spencer’. There was indeed a Captain Harold Spencer operating as a British intelligence agent at this time. He later cropped up in 1918 peddling the allegations of sexual deviance in the British establishment that Pemberton-Billing used in his libel trial.(4) […]
[…] A Single Monstrous Act. This clearly was ‘the line’ of the period. Crozier quotes some 1978 comments from the then Labour MP, Brian Magee, to Iain (CIA agent) Hamilton. Magee wrote, ‘Everything that comes from over there on the subject of social democracy in general and the Labour Party in particular is so inane […]
[…] it. Not so. A few weeks went by and another person tried to attach himself to me, this time claiming to be to be a former MI5 agent who would spill the beans. But he was ill, so ill, and the NHS in London was so bad…..This goes on for some weeks and I […]
[…] to establish that Philby did more damage to British interests after 1951, when he was partly severed from SIS, than before, when he was an undetected Soviet agent in place. As Robin Ramsay noted in Lobster 37, this idea isn’t very convincing – not in any obvious sense, at least. After 1951, Philby worked […]
[…] 1985 drug scandals. (Jose Antonio Zorrilla, the ex-DFS chief arrested and indicted in 1989 for murder, was in 1963 private secretary to Fernando Gutierrez Barrios, the DFS agent whose signature attested to the validity of the most radically altered version of Duran’s statement.) At least two ex-DFS officers who were also former CIA agents […]
[…] MI5 officer: ‘Blair was recruited early on in his career, around the time he stood in the Beaconsfield by-election in 1982. He was just the sort of agent MI5 wanted at the time, a man who appeared to be committed to the Labour Party but who in fact was – to use Thatcher’s phrase […]
