[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]: […] forces soldiers some of whom, following their regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
