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David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG
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The view from the bridge
[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 […]
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS, by Gavin Mortimer
[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 […]
The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage
[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 […]
The view from the bridge
[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 […]
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[…] 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 […]
Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran
[PDF file]: […] to the energy-security industry, they may also have a 18 Caryle Murphy, ‘Wikileaks Reveals Saudi Efforts to Threaten Iran’, 29 November 2010. 19 Kim Zetter, ‘NOKIA Seimens Spy Tools Aid Police Torture in Bahrain’, Wired: Threat Level, 23 August 2011; and Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room: ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 […]
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[…] 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 […]