[PDF file]: […] secretary and intelligence services were finally established on a statutory basis in the 1990s, they were encouraged to engage more in the public sphere. Commercial and industrial espionage were legitimised, and the days of secretive but deeply reactionary figures such as Peter Wright and Charles Elwell are long gone. We now live in a […]
[…] Knew too Much . 66 See, for example, . 67 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 68 22 part of his piece in The Times on 10 December to RFK Jnr, Sirhan Sirhan and the RFK assassination. This […]
[PDF file]: […] University of Texas Press, 1998) and John Prados, Presidents’ Secret Wars (Chicago: Elephant, 1996), Cullather (see note 1) and Stephen E. Ambrose, Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1981). 8 See Schlesinger and Kinzer (see note 3). 17 Winter 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and […]
[PDF file]: […] of the private company NSO and those of Unit 8200 is illustrated by a Unit 8200 cyber development called ‘Flame,’ described thus: . . . state-sponsored cyber espionage malware that circumvented anti-virus programs and remained undetected between two and five years. Aimed to map Iran’s computer networks and monitor computers of Iranian officials, it […]
[PDF file]: […] stands out is how we are told that the Soviet deepcover controller Konon Molody (a.k.a. Gordon Lonsdale) had been eventually ‘exchanged for a British citizen accused of espionage in Moscow’. Why so coy? This ‘British citizen accused’ was none other than Greville Wynne. In his 1967 book The Man from Moscow, Wynne is more […]
[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 52 or 53 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 54 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]
[PDF file]: […] a thriller writer and admitted that he was given ‘top secret information’ by the CIA in the 1970s and ‘80s to place in, and spice up, his espionage novels.1 4 Mention should also be made of Philip Birch, the UK Head of Radio London. Birch, who was recommended for the position by Pierson, was […]
[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]
[PDF file]: […] of a Jewish family in Manchester. Olivia Frank, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, before her training at the Mossad academy. When the West’s second largest espionage agency 12 decided to make an eleventh hour strike against an Abu Nidal bomb-maker who was being supplied with explosives by neo-Nazis, the Mossad sent their […]
[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 42 or 43 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 44 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]
