[…] study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local KGB chief, but that’s about all, even after endless tailing. Because CIA chiefs are so paranoid about RIS […]
[…] plots which now seem more fantasies than fully realisable attempts to overthrow the existing regime and institute some form of republic. Students of the arcane arts of espionage, agents provocateurs and of secret policing will find much of interest in the book. However, somewhere in that dark and unknowable place between the original pitch […]
[…] research and flights to and fro between Moscow, London and the United States. Who is reading this stuff? Well, there is a group of a few dozen Anglo-American scholars of espionage history, many of them witting or unwitting carriers of state propaganda — the “useful idiots’ of NATO. Apart from them, I have no idea.
[…] run things in Washington – are very interested in psychology, and drugs in particular. These people play hardball, Timothy. They want to use drugs for warfare, for espionage, for brainwashing, for control.” (p155) In May 1963 Pinchot told Leary that her love affair was over. It had been revealed at a party to a […]
[…] to get it so wrong, or offer explanations for their false statements to Parliament and public. To this extent, by not sufficiently documenting a proven case of espionage against the late Princess, when its remit specifically included claims of surveillance mounted by the intelligence agencies against the late Princess, Operation Paget may be regarded […]
[…] exact opposite of the picture given by Peter Wright on p. 359 of Spycatcher, of the 1970s expansion of the counter-subversive F-branch at the expense of counter- espionage K branch. But there are lots of things missing. This is the list I compiled on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; […]
[…] and finally, in desperation, to ‘reaching’ them. The authenticity juggernaut is causing huge problems in the most unlikely places, including British spooks. Reasons include: dilution of the espionage profile – even the McLaren Formula One team appear to be at it;(5) believing media-friendly populism to be the same as authenticity; and losing control of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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 […]
