[…] due to post Cold War complacency which, apparently, blunted the cutting edge of British spy work. This is another nonsense since it implies that British Cold War espionage was excellent, when this was not always the case. Back to Sir Richard: ‘……. he (Spedding) recognised it was important to reinforce SIS’s reputation for professionalism […]
[…] idea and well worth pursuing. I thought it was very badly produced, editorially. The subjects that Sebastian (8) picked were so bloody irrelevant. He was obsessed with espionage, so there was an espionage story every other week.’ (9) Michael Grade, for whom I retain a certain affection and who, as the highly-paid chief executive […]
[…] European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, have held hearings on Echelon and related issues, and on July 4, France launched its own investigation into Echelon, economic espionage, and damage to French interests, conducted by a French state prosecutor.(www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/26/ns-16418.html) French Parliament’s Echelon Report (Oct 2000) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/2/rap-info/i2623.htm (In French). The report ‘recommends that the EU […]
[…] FELIX MI6 1923 INDIAN POLICE 1930 PERSONAL ASSIST TO DIR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BUREAU NEW DEHLI 1933 DEP COMM SPECIAL BRANCH CALCUTTA 1939 MI6 SECTION V COUNTER ESPIONAGE 1930s LEADING AUTHORITY ON THE COMINTERN 1945 RETIRED, SENIOR POST BRITISH MILITARY GOVT GERMANY COX, DONALD TOWLER OBE (1969) B 22.8.19 MI6 (C) 1939 HM FORCES […]
[…] this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What little there is in the British press is almost exclusively the routine nonsense of espionage – expulsions and counter expulsions. The recent great brouhaha about Oleg Bitov rather makes the point. What did we learn? The British intelligence services have ‘safe […]
[…] Turner’s account of these events, in his memoir Secrecy and Democracy. (2) On pp.193-205 Turner says the following. The CIA cuts were in what he calls ‘the espionage branch’, otherwise known as the Directorate of Operations. Under DCI George Bush this ‘espionage branch’ had been studied and a reduction of 1350 positions over five […]
The spectre of technofascism haunts the democratic nations. All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central […]
[…] of the real problems: over the years ‘intelligence’ has come to be defined by separate ‘products’ such as weapons inspection, which have a predetermined objective, when ‘good’ espionage can be exclusive, but is holistic, never singular. Other obfuscation includes the threat to government, including spooks, posed by ‘do-it-yourself’ diplomacy and/or justice: e.g. the campaigns […]
[…] which occurred on 22 February 1948. (23) The charges against him are alternately listed as adultery and polygamy, or — according to one ‘official’ UC source — espionage; (24) but in any case he was incarcerated at Hung-nam prison camp until being freed by advancing United Nations troops on 14 October 1950. He then […]
[…] or putting them behind bars. This article certainly explains why Special Branch were involved with the investigation of the case, though at the time the specter of espionage was never raised. It may be argued that the Special Branch came in as a matter of routine because two of those involved were in the […]
