[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]: […] the names of the agency and had Nighy as MI5. And nobody in the editorial process noticed. (To most viewers it would make no difference, of course.) Spy versus Spy W e have had a lot of tribunals recently. One that has received little attention in the UK is the Smithwick Tribunal in the […]
[…] 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]: […] body does have to be taken seriously, even though there is a dearth of decent information on its activities. The largest piece on the group, ‘The Private Spy Agency’ by Elton Manzione (National Reporter, Summer 1985) contains one whopper of a mistake and a number of highly dubious assertions which don’t give grounds for […]
