[…] study of the pro-Soviet exile left in Britain and the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and partly another go round the story of Soviet espionage in Britain, in which story Norwood is a minor element. Depending on what you have read, CPGB member Norwood was a delightful old lefty, or a […]
[…] 119. 16 For a further discussion see my British Counter-insurgency, op cit. 17 Roger Faligot, British Military Strategy in Ireland: The Kitson Experiment, London 1983. 18 Frank Kitson, Warfare As A Whole, London 1987, pp. 55-57. 19 Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia: A History of political espionage in Britain in 1790-1988, London 1989, p. 205.
[…] landed there eventually rounded up; and it was established that the German legation was more keen to keep itself operational in a neutral country than undertake much espionage and intelligence gathering. Two agents who failed to make it to Ireland were Sean Russell and Frank Ryan, senior IRA men who sailed from Germany on […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
