[…] ‘paranoid style’ of thought manifested in classic conspiracy theories rather than the characteristic features of real conspiratorial politics.(5) Only the academic literature dealing with specialized topics like espionage, covert action, political corruption, terrorism, an revolutionary warfare touches upon clandestine and covert political activities on a more or less regular basis, probably because such activities […]
[…] Alec Guinness kept the nation spellbound with the television version of John le Carré’s 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It depicted the tempting of senior UK espionage moguls with a one-off, spectacular solution to Secret Britain’s ills, a Soviet super-spy who would get us back in with the Americans and restore our standing […]
[…] are half a dozen of the 27 chapters which I didn’t find of much interest – the technical side of intelligence gathering, chiefly; and some of the espionage stuff – for the most part the book is dotted with fascinating bits and pieces. Large chunks of it were new to me; and, to judge […]
[…] Treason, notes another encounter between Rothschild and Philby: “It was in Paris during the bleak winter of 1944-45, when Philby was busily forming his new Soviet counter- espionage section, that Muggeridge met him again… Two small incidents imprinted themselves indelibly on Muggeridge’s mind. Each concerned Philby. The first was a heated discussion at table […]
[…] or Anthony Summers, or Peter Dale Scott – who actually knew something about the subject. In the UK this book is being distributed by Central Books, London. Espionage: Past, Present, Future? ed. Wesley K. Wark Frank Cass, London, 1994, £24.00 A collection of essays, most from a conference in 1991 at the University of […]
[…] Publications Ltd., Westonhanger, Ickham, Canterbury CT3 1QN, England. Covert Action Information Bulletin: $15/year (3 issues) from Covert Action Information Bulletin, PO Box 50272, Washington DC 20004. USA. Espionage: Jackie Lewis, editor/publisher, $21/year (6 issues) from Leo 11 Publications, PO Box 1184, Teaneck, NJ 07666. USA. First Principles: Sally Berman, editor, $15/year (6 issues; $10/year […]
[…] he had always denied. There is this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that […]
[…] Communist Manifesto or establish the First International? Notes See Bernard Porter, The Origins of the Vigilant State (London, 1987) and Plots and Paranoia: A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988 (London, 1989). Thus Kenneth O. Morgan’s study, The People’s Peace 1945-1990 (Oxford, 1992), in many ways a fine book, barely refers to the […]
[…] are talking about 150 documents a day! Is it possible to work through that much text?’ 8 Holland calls this ‘influential’. Oh, really? With whom? 9 Reported in Philadelphia Inquirer, Friday, March 9, 2001 at http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/09/national/NUKES10.htm. On Goodman and the Agca nonsense see Wesley K. Wark (ed) Espionage, Past, Present, Future? (London:Frank Cass, 1994), pp.37/8.
[…] alleged anti-Wilson MI5 conspirators, Harry Wharton, began his intelligence career in SIME). In the late 1940s Cavendish followed Oldfield into MI6 where he served in the counter- espionage and sabotage section, R5. His postings abroad included West Germany, and these chapters read very much like Le Carre – David Cornwell served in Bonn 10 […]
