[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g. the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a […]
[PDF file]: […] had been helping the Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg […]
[PDF file]: […] some of the gossip about these – and some of it may have been deliberate attempts at setting hares running, as would always be the case in espionage – wasn’t conflated later with a supposed detailed foreknowledge of Hess’s flight. It could, for instance, have been the case that the message about Hess trying […]
[PDF file]: […] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] French government in exile in London. It went on to serve the post-liberation government of France before it became the ‘Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre- Espionage’ (SDECE) in April 1946. 45 46 Email to the author from Andrew Rosthorn, 13 May 2023. 18 Indeed, according to Charpier, Guerber was at this time […]
[…] Knew too Much . 80 See, for example, . 81 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 82 or 83 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 84 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]
[PDF file]: […] had also had an affair with Dulles.24 CIA penetration of the Luce media empire itself had reached something of a height during Clare’s Rome mission. Harry’s own espionage entrée came in 1953, when he assisted the CIA by helping to bail out the cash-strapped Partisan Review with a donation of $10,000. With Harry’s approval, […]
[…] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life’s work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage.’ (p. 314) Symonds’ account ends with this devastating final paragraph. ‘In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times […]
[…] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]
