[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Mrs Thatcher’s ear that Gorbachev was on the level, and that she could ‘do business with him’. (A station chief as defector-in-place, Gordiefsky was the ultimate pure espionage coup.) In espionage literature this myth is most strikingly displayed by Verrier’s Through the Looking Glass (Cape, London, 1983). Pitched somewhere between the Sunday Express and […]
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[…] son, eh? (Are journalists in the British Higher Media cynical? Yes, but usually about the wrong things.) Nice one, John 2 The precise roles played by the espionage novelist, John Le Carre, in the real spook world have been a source of much speculation. In a U.S. TV interview on July 1 this year, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] historical interest (Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, NSA Venona Prog, Satellite images, CIA reports and briefings); Declassified records (CIA, DIA, State dept, Nat Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs (MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of […]
