[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] so Hollingshead’s antics are not out of keeping with such an approach. On the other hand, he was never officer material and clearly didn’t operate as a spy or agent in any conventional sense. He was far too unreliable a character. As well as having a prodigious appetite for alcohol and a wide range […]
[PDF file]: […] anniversary. See . 8 Personally, I adhere to the adage that in intelligence ‘there is no such thing as coincidence’ (© John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy). 9 Oxford: OUP, 11 March 2021 or . 10 3 that collusion was involved in the attack. What other possible evidence does Taylor think should […]
[…] 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]: […] we profile Lord most active in campaigning Declaration of interest: I worked closely with Mark Hollingsworth on lobbying issues in the 1980s/1990s; he edited my book Baghdad’s Spy in 2003. dovetailing with those of remaining Cold War warriors and, far more importantly, Britain’s then commercial interests. The latter, perhaps temporarily, ceased to be the […]
[…] 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]: […] . 49 Christopher Ketcham wrote about this in 2010 in his essay at . which was redacted by MI5 prior to publication, has been published in Counter Spy by Simon Tomlin.5 0 In that section Machon reports that a source in MI5 she calls Swallow Tail told her and her then partner David Shayler […]
A Spy Alone Charles Beaumont London: Canelo, 2023, £9.99 (p/b) Robin Ramsay This is only the second novel I have reviewed in Lobster.1 The cover and the author blurb tells us that author Beaumont is a ‘former MI6 operative’. ‘Operative’? Why not ‘officer’? The author tells me the word was chosen by the publisher. […]
