[…] page 224, he is unaware of – or refrains from mentioning – ISC’s intelligence role. He may not have had time to read Brian Crozier’s memoir Free Agent, but this does not excuse such an omission. Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, […]
[…] 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? […]
[…] who had contact with the CPGB,2 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for […]
[…] page 224, he is unaware of – or refrains from mentioning – ISC’s intelligence role. He may not have had time to read Brian Crozier’s memoir Free Agent, but this does not excuse such an omission. Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, […]
[PDF file]: […] Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until the time that he became too hawkish for his new employers. Most controversial, of course, is George […]
[PDF file]: […] 1984 and 1993 were ruled accidental (or unsolved) but involved individuals with knowledge of the South African-US-Iran arms deals. In 1997 Peter Castleton, a former South African agent, was crushed to death whilst repairing his car shortly before he was expected to testify that Williamson and Wedin were involved in the killing of Palme. […]
[PDF file]: […] delegate was Bob Edwards, General Secretary of the Chemical Workers Union and, from 1955, MP for Bilston. Oleg Gordievsky later claimed that Edwards was a long-standing Soviet agent. Coudenhove-Kalergi never achieved much support in the UK, and apart from Kim Mackay, Bond notes only a few MPs as being followers: Victor Collins, Gordon Lang, […]
[…] Leonnig reported in her recent book on the Secret Service the person who was telling JAMES ROWLEY what to do was Rufus Youngblood, the personal Secret Service agent for President Lyndon Johnson. LBJ, Youngblood and Rowley all had to know about Abraham Bolden and why he was such a threat to the cover up […]
