Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so cannot, … Read more
Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies Jim Schnabel Dell (USA) 1997, $5.99 Psychic Warrior David Morehouse Michael Joseph, London, 1996, £16.99 I approached the Jim Schnabel book with some caution. A number of people, including Armen Victorian, are intensely suspicious of Schnabel’s activities in the UFO/paranormal fields: some suspect him of … Read more
[…] appeared in the original edition. This is additional information. A further list of corrections will appear in a future issue. (WIA) Material taken from the documentary ‘The Spy Who Never Was’ about Peter Wright on World in Action ITV 16 July 1984. Not all the names supplied by Wright were mentioned or published. I […]
British Spies and Irish Rebels British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 Paul McMahon Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £30 First up, I have no specialist knowledge of this area, so if there any howlers in here, I’m unlikely to spot them. However, I know a good book when I see one. This has been … Read more
[…] this really is extraordinary, for he was one of the journalists who did the work which showed that the nuclear state had hired private security firms to spy on Sizewell objectors against whom there was nothing at all; in other words, to spy on Sizewell objectors per se. In any case, before her death […]
[…] Cold War spies’, in Guardian 9 December ’89. The late Joseph Josten. And so on. Deacon usefully reminds his reader of British State sponsorship of disinformation in spy fiction, a notable example of which is the 1981 ‘novel’, The KGB Directive, by Richard Cox. Born in 1931, Cox is a former First Secretary in […]
[…] the subject of beliefs that he was really thousands of years old. At one time he was a friend of Casanova and was arrested as a Jacobite spy in London during the 1745 uprising. Barruel (see above, just after (8) in the text) names him as one of the Masonic super-conspirators behind the French […]
[…] paranoid fight against the CPUSA, and later, Martin Luther King. (13) It sounds impressive, but as with all Soviet contacts one can’t get away from the ‘ spy’ and ‘mole’ debate, however much one wants to. The Bureau had become worried when another Soviet source ‘Fedora’ notified the FBI that Jack Childs was about […]
[…] the Soviet Embassy on request. Betty Boothroyd told her boss; her boss called in MI5. But the MI5 officer misread her, and tried to recruit her to spy on some Labour MPs. She refused. MI5 did what they do so well: they bad-mouthed her at the Foreign Office and she was banned from working […]
[…] 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 […]
