[…] saying that their indictments were a hoax, and that they were actually in the employ of the CIA – having been sent to the Middle East to spy on the various factions there. Frank later told me that Korkala signed a document to that effect, while Frank himself continued to do so. Korkala, then, […]
[…] Conference, cited by Le Caballac p. 35. The source in question says that the North Koreans originally arrested Moon for heretical teachings and because ‘he was a spy for the President of South Korea’. See Matczak, p. 7. Normally, one would assume that this was merely proferred as a post facto justification for his […]
[…] agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological agents. He was referring to David Wise’s book, Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas. ………the deception ultimately worked against US interests by spurring the Soviets to develop more lethal chemical and biological agents and may also […]
Andrew Emmerson and Tony Beard. London: Capital Transport, 2004, £25.00, h/b Gimme Shelter(s)! The secret underground government structures that originated during the Second World War and were later adapted, enlarged and augmented for the Nuclear Age were given a once-over by Peter Laurie in Beneath the City Streets (1970) and given much more detailed … Read more
[…] printed a full account of the story; In it Cathy Massiter, a former MI5 officer, blew the whistle on MI5 activities and named Harry Newton as a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of some of the programme.) Massiter said she was put in charge of the surveillance […]
[…] Henri Paul was ‘…on the MI6 files for three years.’ (Tim Reid, ‘Al Fayed accuses Duke of plotting to murder Diana’, The Times 23 November 1999.) ‘Ex- spy claims Diana’s driver an informer’, Glasgow Herald 19 May 1999, p.3. Tomlinson wrote to Mohammed Al-Fayed about his theories in July 1998. ‘I subsequently learned that […]
[…] sleight of hand. MI5 may have secret sources – but so do the police and Special Branch. Nor do MI5 have any ‘secret techniques’: other agencies bug, spy, bribe, recruit and subvert. MI5’s special little number was the ability of its personnel to remain unidentified: when they do have to appear in courts of […]
The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, […]
[…] 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 the IC, drug smuggling and the CIA). US Military Intelligence Sites http://www.loyola.edu/dept/politics/milintel.html ‘This is an unofficial website for researchers, students, and interested browsers…’ Huge […]
Tim Rifat Century Books, London, 1999 £17.99 I was enormously disappointed to discover that this non-fiction book, which has printed on its cover, ‘The History and Science of Psychic Warfare and Spying’, not only lacks an index, it contains no meaningful references. Occasionally the reader comes across some scant footnotes; but the bulk of the … Read more
