[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]
[PDF file]: […] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]
[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]
[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]
[PDF file]: […] website on 23 February, whose headline was ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate JFK, ex-CIA chief and former head of Romania’s spy service claim in new book’.59 The former Romanian spook is Ion Pacepa. His co-author is R. James Woolsey, head of the CIA from 1993-1995. As a […]
[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]
[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]
[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 […]
[…] . 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 […]
