[…] 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 […]
[…] Moscow and asked him about a British electronics engineer named Michael John Smith, who, in November 1993, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of espionage for the KGB at the end of the 1970s and beginning of 1980s. He was arrested in August 1992, after the defection from Paris of Victor […]
[…] for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British glossy magazine devoted to ‘cover ups, espionage, covert action’ duly folded after five issues. Which was two more than I expected. There just is no general interest in these fields in this country, […]
[…] a report for Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (see www.epic.org). Europe The European Parliament may soon ratify proposals to modify international law to deal with international communications espionage, and to set up a temporary special Committee of inquiry (opposed by UK govt) to further investigate Echelon. These proposals, known as the Echelon resolution, drafted […]
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[…] and by 1955 had reached the rank of colonel and deputy chief of Glowny Zarzad Informacji, the Polish intelligence agency. His responsibilities included counterintelligence and foreign technical espionage. In April 1958 he contacted the Americans and began passing top secret information to the West. At Christmas, 1960, fearing that his cover was blown, he […]
[…] hydrogen bomb. Spooks bending spoons There is a very useful and comprehensively documented (120 notes to 30 pages) survey of the literature on the attempts to find espionage uses for psi in chapter 10, ‘The Spook Circuit: Psychic Espionage’, of The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime, by Arthur Lyons and Dr. Marcello Truzzi […]
[…] we can skim across them even more quickly. MI5, encouraged by a section of the CIA, began ploughing through the PLP and Wilson’s entourage looking for Soviet espionage. And found none, incidentally. On Gaitskell’s death the leadership of the American tendency passed to Roy Jenkins and its focus shifted to the Common Market. Members […]
