[…] to assert that, excisions notwithstanding, it is ‘a comprehensive history’ and ‘a candid chronology’ which reveals ‘the grisly truth’ about still unexplained failings in operations against Soviet espionage. These supposed failings exist largely in Mr West’s imagination and are a hangover from all the tosh written in the 1980s about an undetected ‘super-mole’ at […]
[…] in British embassies, under what is often known as ‘light’ cover. The term serves as a reminder that it is a simple task for the local counter- espionage outfit to determine which embassy staff are genuine diplomats. Nevertheless the embassy has several advantages over locations outside: access to embassy facilities (archives, communications etc), diplomatic […]
[…] Guardian 30 April 2007, about opposition parties being alerted to an upcoming scoop. Particularly worrying is the increasing trend to target children; e.g. and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See ‘Ex-BBC and Blair aides hired’, The Independent 1 July 2006. […]
[…] In a long review essay of both books in Commentary, Michael Ledeen (16) announced that: “the real spectacle has been the discrediting of any concern over Communist espionage and subversion in the United States. Indeed, the concern has been turned inside out; the real threat – according to the fashionable mythology – was a […]
[…] laws and regulations against NGOs are not enough, they resort to extralegal forms of intimidation or persecution. Often these regimes justify their actions by accusations of treason, espionage, subversion, foreign interference or terrorism. These are rationalizations; the real motivation is political. This is not about defending their citizens from harm, this is about protecting […]
[…] part of the world, it has created a separate world.’ Unhappy with its lack of respectful representation in Hollywood movies, Turkey has put its own spin on espionage and made its most expensive movie ever – Valley of the Wolves – which follows an intelligence agent as he travels to Iraq to avenge the […]
[…] clear that Sulzberger shared the paper’s intimate relations with the CIA.20 .Hayden B. Peake sent me a photocopy of the review of Splinter Factor from Intelligence and Espionage; an Analytical Bibliography by George Constantinides (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado). This includes ‘The story is quite unreliable… one of the worst books to appear in years […]
[…] War, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1973, or the post-revisionist work of John Lewis Gaddis. D. Cameron Watt, ‘Intelligence and the Historian: A Comment on John Gaddis’s ‘Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins’, Diplomatic History, Vol.14 No.2, Spring 1990, p.200. This is the line of critique that will be followed here in relation to the […]
[…] the FBI, where Felt was No. 3 to the Bureau’s Director, J. Edgar Hoover. The Bureau is alleged to have some small responsibilities with respect to counter- espionage and anti-terrorist operations. Among them was the very interesting Yeoman Charles Radford. He was one of the undercover agents in the Pentagon spy-ring that came to […]
[…] laissez faire (their lower case) is one of the stable of publications from the International Freedom Foundation in London. Volume 1 number 3 contained a feature, ‘ Espionage after the Cold War’, reports from the proceedings of a conference on 15 November 1991 at which former KGB and former CIA officers spoke together in […]
