[…] Taylor is also cheap with the facts when he recounts the time that Brendan Duddy was interrogated by the IRA because they thought he was a British spy. He says: McGuinness suspected Brendan might be playing a double game as a suspected British spy. Shortly afterwards, four senior IRA men arrived at Brendan’s house, […]
[PDF file]: […] reveal massive increase in UK arms exports to Israel as Government defends F-35 exemption in Court’, 15 May 2025, . 17 Iain Overton, ‘Britain sent over 500 spy flights to Gaza’, Declassified UK, 27 March 2025, . 18 Iain Overton, ‘US flew spy flights for UK months before UK admitted it’, Declassified UK, 12 […]
[PDF file]: […] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]
[PDF file]: […] a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. Sargant remarked that ‘he was just like any other CIA spy, using our secret airfields to come and go.’ Sargant told Thomas he could publish what he was saying, but only after his death. He went on […]
[PDF file]: […] of 1156 mph, a range of 2000 miles, weighs 13.8 tons and costs $102m each. 9 See The Sunday Times 13 April 2014, ‘Keep it quiet: RAF spy planes fail safety rules’ at . Ironically one of the reasons given for dumping the Nimrod programme in 2010 was that the aircraft wasn’t safe. The […]
[PDF file]: […] would be a good cover for keeping an eye on radical students and others. I am paranoid. But am I paranoid enough? A character in a recent spy novel says: the basic truth of conspiracy? If it can be imagined, then someone’s already tried it.29 This may be an exaggeration but perhaps not that […]
[PDF file]: […] Rogue Warriors, also based on the Macintyre book.1 Ben Macintyre is a columnist and associate editor at The Times; he is also author of the controversial The Spy and the Traitor (2018) in which he exhumed the discredited story that the (then safely dead Michael Foot) had been paid some £1,500 by the KGB […]
[PDF file]: […] them they should be returned to the National Archives. This leads to some peculiar situations. A contact of mine was researching a book on a particular Soviet spy. He found an interesting document written by said spy in a file at the National Archives. It was 12 pages – he copied 6 pages and […]
[PDF file]: […] cash and 3 clothes to his son. Guest-More lived in Malta with a genuine British passport, cloned in the name of a real British citizen, a classic spy trick. Jimmy Raven was jailed at Chester Crown Court for at least 24 years for the murder of Brian Waters, 44. The cannabis grower had been […]
