[…] exact opposite of the picture given by Peter Wright on p. 359 of Spycatcher, of the 1970s expansion of the counter-subversive F-branch at the expense of counter- espionage K branch. But there are lots of things missing. This is the list I compiled on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; […]
[PDF file]: […] 1959 defection to Russia. In part two, I will argue that Oswald’s story must be seen at a minimum in the context of an even more striking espionage affair, the defection to Moscow in the summer of 1960 of Bernon Mitchell and William Martin, former National Security Agency (NSA) officials, both of whom had […]
[PDF file]: […] the future. The novel T here have been persistent rumours that Anthony Burgess’s novel (published by Heinemann, London, in May 1962) was in some way related to espionage. These rumours were given the proverbial ‘shot in the arm’ with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis’s scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber […]
[PDF file]: […] same way as the influence of ‘big oil’ is in decline because, with the exception of Washington, everybody else recognised the environment debate, so too has ‘big’ espionage collapsed. The last of the Cold War spook agencies with leading brand status to topple in ignominy like the rest of them was SIS: in its […]
[PDF file]: […] but because this ‘cabinet’ is composed of bureaucrats, academics, professional politicians, businessmen and assorted charlatans in the train of the reigning president, there is need for an espionage organisation which in theory tells these ministers when, where and how to wage war most advantageously. That is the official reason why the criminal cabinet needs […]
[PDF file]: […] Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), pp. 207-232 General A. Mitchell Palmer. During the course of the their investigation of German espionage in the United States, Bureau agents discovered Senator Warren Harding, the Ohio Republican, in the arms of his mistress Carrie Phillips, a suspected German spy. A […]
[…] OF CONTENTS FOREWORD …………………………………………………………………………………..1 A CKN OWLEDGMENTS ……………………………………………………………….4 PRE.FACE ………………………………………………………………………………………. 5 INTR.ODuc·noN ………………………………………………………………………….7 INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS …………………………………….12 AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL (Am ……………………………13 BACK CHANNELS A J ournal of Espionage, Assassinatio11s and Conspiracy ………………………………………………………………………..15 BRITISH STUDY GROUP ON INTELLIGENCE (BSGI) (NEWSLE’l’l’ER) ……………………………………………………………………….17 CA.MPUS WATCH (CW) …………………………………………………………….. 19 CASIS NEWSLE”l'”l’ER ………………………………………………………………….21 CIA OFF CAMPUS – National Clearinghouse…………………………… […]
[PDF file]: […] receiving payments from the Japanese government in June 1941. His office was raided on 13 December 1941 and various confidential documents found. Rather than face prosecution for espionage, he agreed to retire from public life. See or . 8 The American historian Carrol Quigley stated in two books, Tragedy and Hope and The Anglo-American […]
[PDF file]: […] another defector, Lyalin. (111). Wilson said later that Kagan had let Vaygauskas approach him as part of a scheme to assist Sir Arthur Young investigate Soviet commercial espionage. Young had been placed in Kagan’s company as ‘cover’. (h) Harold Wilson was involved in a series of corrupt land deals This presumably refers to the […]
[PDF file]: […] retain its ‘legitimate’ secrets. Indeed it is arguable that Snowden’s proclaimed sacrifice for personal privacy was more a cover for his crusade against all forms of electronic espionage. The second – unintended – impact of his actions, is that this book is another nail in the coffin of Glenn Greenwald’s risible ‘Panopticon’ thesis, spelt […]
