[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] video, Epstein is seen leaving in the company of a young blonde woman (who I would guess is in her twenties). See, for instance, ‘American charged with espionage in Russia has an unlikely background for a spy’ in The Chicago Tribune 3 January 2019 at or N.B. how that headline states ‘unlikely’, not ‘impossible’. […]
[PDF file]: […] Hastings is sceptical of this, though he corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain’s main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 (SIS), staffed by ‘men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling’s […]
[PDF file]: […] Powers doesn’t. These essays are mostly about the CIA. The problem is that there are two CIAs. There’s the CIA which does analysis, gathers information and conducts espionage and counter-espionage. This is a central intelligence agency. But there’s another one, which kills, bribes, corrupts, overthrows. This is not an intelligence agency: it is a […]
[PDF file]: […] with Bob Stewart, a senior official, at the Party’s King Street headquarters, to discuss his future role in the organisation.3 He complained about his unwilling involvement in espionage, telling Stewart that this was ‘the only time I’ve really been unhappy in the Party’. MI5 had Stewart’s office bugged (‘Operation Table’) and heard all the […]
[PDF file]: […] the family estate, Blessingbourne, was situated. These bare biographical facts on Montgomery do not betray the keen interest he has for students of 20th century intelligence and espionage. While a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became the lover of Anthony Blunt, the Soviet spy, aka ‘The Fourth Man’. In the words of Barrie […]
[PDF file]: […] in January 1968 to withdraw British forces from ‘East of Suez’ (other than Hong Kong); the decision in September 1971 to expel 105 Soviet diplomats for alleged espionage and the decision in April 1982 to despatch a naval task force to the South Atlantic. Two things should be said at the start. First, this […]
[…] Powers doesn’t. These essays are mostly about the CIA. The problem is that there are two CIAs. There’s the CIA which does analysis, gathers information and conducts espionage and counterespionage. This is a central intelligence agency. But there’s another one, which kills, bribes, corrupts, overthrows. This is not an intelligence agency: it is a […]
[PDF file]: […] may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl Harbour. As indicated in the title, there was some US-UK collaboration on this matter and various German espionage activities in the US were thwarted. But the involvement of MI5 was actually quite limited. In 1937-1938 they monitored the activities of a Mrs Jordan who […]
