[…] or Anthony Summers, or Peter Dale Scott – who actually knew something about the subject. In the UK this book is being distributed by Central Books, London. Espionage: Past, Present, Future? ed. Wesley K. Wark Frank Cass, London, 1994, £24.00 A collection of essays, most from a conference in 1991 at the University of […]
[…] are talking about 150 documents a day! Is it possible to work through that much text?’ 8 Holland calls this ‘influential’. Oh, really? With whom? 9 Reported in Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday, March 9, 2001 at http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/09/national/NUKES10.htm. On Goodman and the Agca nonsense see Wesley K. Wark (ed) Espionage, Past, Present, Future? (London:Frank Cass, 1994), pp.37/8.
[…] Publications Ltd., Westonhanger, Ickham, Canterbury CT3 1QN, England. Covert Action Information Bulletin: $15/year (3 issues) from Covert Action Information Bulletin, PO Box 50272, Washington DC 20004. USA. Espionage: Jackie Lewis, editor/publisher, $21/year (6 issues) from Leo 11 Publications, PO Box 1184, Teaneck, NJ 07666. USA. First Principles: Sally Berman, editor, $15/year (6 issues; $10/year […]
[…] he had always denied. There is this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that […]
[…] Communist Manifesto or establish the First International? Notes See Bernard Porter, The Origins of the Vigilant State (London, 1987) and Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988 (London, 1989). Thus Kenneth O. Morgan’s study, The People’s Peace 1945-1990 (Oxford, 1992), in many ways a fine book, barely refers to the […]
[…] alleged anti-Wilson MI5 conspirators, Harry Wharton, began his intelligence career in SIME). In the late 1940s Cavendish followed Oldfield into MI6 where he served in the counter- espionage and sabotage section, R5. His postings abroad included West Germany, and these chapters read very much like Le Carre – David Cornwell served in Bonn 10 […]
[…] the adult education and other movements. He was an unlikely agent. But then, as a historian of such things, who has looked into what traces of such espionage as survive in the public records, when they are opened after 100 or 75 years, I know that agents are always unlikely persons. Harry was a […]
[…] Moore reports Mrs. Dwyer as saying. “The U.S. engineers made it fail.” (Moore, personal communication). Shortly after the aborted rescue attempt, Mrs. Dwyer was arrested, charged with espionage and jailed in Iran, not to be released until February 9, 1981, shortly before Israel began shipping Reagan-Administration-approved arms to Iran, in February 1981 – probably […]
[…] intelligence agencies are actually for. Gill defines ‘security intelligence’ as ‘the state’s gathering of information about and attempts to counter perceived threats to its security deriving from espionage, sabotage, foreign-influenced activities, political violence and subversion’. Based on real-world definitions, this provokes a host of questions: should the same agency have charge of information-gathering and […]
[…] that Parsons had a role (of some kind ) in the US space programme. Reuss was also a German secret agent. The OTO were regarded as an espionage ring in many parts of Europe. Crowley and his group were expelled from France in 1929 as a result of this. Viereck (1884-1962) can be found […]
