[PDF file]: […] overseas defence commitments. Many resisted, but, as the author points out, by mid-1967: ‘There was no avoiding the conclusion that Britain’s global responsibilities were unsustainable.’ The ‘Soviet spy’ affair of 1971 certainly had potential to turn into a foreign-policy crisis. In the event, the Edward Heath government gambled that it would not and was […]
[PDF file]: […] Marshall Plan, for example, over a year away in 1947; before even the March arrest of Dr Allan Nunn May and the revelation of the Canadian-based Soviet spy ring; and before Churchill’s American speech in which he first used the term ‘Iron Curtain’. 64 15 February 1948 that he dined with Christopher Warner, who […]
[PDF file]: […] front. What appears to be evidence supporting the Wikispooks analysis is to be found in Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s ‘Exposed: Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new “Russian spy plot”’.43 At least I think so. But, damn, that article is hard to follow. On the question of the status of the White Helmets in Syria. […]
[PDF file]: […] is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 5 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]
[…] front. What appears to be evidence supporting the Wikispooks analysis is to be found in Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s ‘Exposed: Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new “Russian spy plot”’.43 At least I think so. But, damn, that article is hard to follow. On the question of the status of the White Helmets in Syria. […]
[…] . he was arrested because of . . . he was potentially . . . he was potentially spying . . . they thought he was a spy . . . because what he was doing was running round Kharkiv taking pictures of Ukrainian positions and Ukrainian troops and everything, and it turns out […]
[PDF file]: […] the Jewish Chronicle revealed her story to readers of the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. They gave her a double deck headline. Trans Mossad spy who helped track down the Munich terrorists is laid to rest Olivia Jane Frank, who has died aged 76, infiltrated the PLO in Beirut Two lines […]
[PDF file]: […] not. Andrew Biswell dismisses the espionage rumours with the comment: ‘here is nothing among Burgess’s private diaries or financial papers to suggest that he was paid to spy on the Russians.’ Indeed not but, in any case, that is not what Burgess’s Leningrad adventures appear to suggest. This episode is unmistakably a ‘dangle’: Burgess […]
[PDF file]: […] and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True Story of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on […]
