[…] 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 […]
[…] these events, in his memoir Secrecy and Democracy (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986). 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. Number of people actually fired was 17 147 were ‘forced to retire early’. ‘In short, the espionage branch’s […]
[…] if not quite made in A Look Over My Shoulder is that William Colby, while Director of Central Intelligence, was a Soviet agent. Readers of espionage thrillers, whether or not they are now (or have ever been) employees of the Agency, will remember that the nightmare haunting John Le Carré’s George Smiley […]
[…] lists of the period. Margaret Bradfield: MI6 Chief of Stockholm 1989 (Intelligence Newsletter 6 December 1989). John Quine: MI6 40s and 50s ended as Head of Counter- Espionage Department (Sunday Telegraph 16 September 1990). Ian Crichley: MI6 40s and 50s, ended as Deputy Head of Personnel Department (Sunday Telegraph 16/9/90). Murray Micklejohn: MI6 involved […]
[…] minority Sunni elite. Its majority Shia population is not a ‘secular’ one. Corinne Souza’s memoir on Iraq and her father’s SIS service, The Spy’s Daughter: Tales of Espionage from Baghdad to London will be published by Mainstream in March 2003, price £15.99. Notes 1. Even school-children in cafes throughout the Middle East knew that […]
[…] culture, traditions, geography, language and history to the political needs of their respective governments.(16) American anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris was also a clandestine operative engaged in counter- espionage for the OSS in West Africa and in South Africa during World War Two. Declining an offer from the CIA, he also worked for the United […]
[…] in recruiting, those resources for purposes unrelated to fighting crime. These have included the testing of mind-altering drugs on unwitting suspects, recruiting assassins and engaging in political espionage abroad under cover of law enforcement.(2) The story of Oliver North’s similar success in recruiting the DEA bureaucracy throws into sharp relief the hypocrisy of official […]
[…] almost every congressional district, making cuts politically difficult. There is nothing like a Dame On his blog, Michael John Smith, who wrote about his wrongful conviction for espionage in Lobster 52, reproduces the text of an e-mail he has sent to the publisher of Dame Stella Rimington’s memoir.(10) Smith makes the interesting point that […]
