[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]
[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]
[PDF file]: […] 1961, though, MacMillan seemed in serious disarray, badly behind in the polls and widely mocked by many of the UK intelligentsia. There is also evidence that the spy scandals of 1962-1963 caused many in the US to finally lose patience with their British allies.2 9 Coupled with the emergence of Wilson as the next […]
