[…] sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets’, The Sunday Times, 6 January 2008, Sunday Times ,‘FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft’, 20 January 2008, and ‘Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe’, 27 January 2008, In an interview with antiwar.com’s Scott Horton – go to for the mp3 file. Alternatively a full transcript is available here: […]
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
[…] stories on Zinoviev appeared in August: ‘Red Letter Day’ by Patrick French, in the Sunday Times 10 August 1997, and ‘The forgery, the election and the MI6 spy’ by Michael Smith in the Daily Telegraph 13 August 1997. Both articles were based on the release of certain documents from SIS’s archives which purport to […]
[…] Martin was currently using Sharon Denby to front his model agency business. She said Martin had worked as a private detective and had hired another detective to spy on Owen Oyston’s ex-wife Vicki Oyston. Melanie Hardy also claimed to Murrin that she had that morning noticed signs of an attempted forced entry on her […]
[…] by Walde pp.79-105. The best sketch of Mossad’s structure and functioning is probably the CIA’s own leaked 1979 analysis, Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services in Counter spy (May-June 1982) pp.34-54. Most of the other works on the Israeli intelligence services are ‘hagiographic’. The NATO secret service is so secret that even its name […]
[…] Pederson, David Kelly’s mysterious friend, born Mai al-Sadat in Kuwait, who introduced Kelly to the Baha’i faith, a woman both of whose husbands have said is a spy. Pederson shared addresses in the US with Kelly: despite being officially listed only as a US Army master sergeant, she has been able to retain the […]
[…] second contributor to this issue to have been virused recently.) But I had on file this splendid polemic written at the time of the latest outbreak of spy mania to hit this country. Turner’s column proper will begin in the next issue. It must surely rank as one of the silliest ‘silly season’ stories […]
It is a difficult time for Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Not only have the old certainties collapsed with the Berlin Wall, Britain’s economy is in increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 and … Read more
