NATO's First Spies: The Case of the Disappearing Diplomats — Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean The publicity given to their treachery increased public anxiety about the Soviet Union, which had proved itself a formidable adversary. When it became apparent in 1955 that the British Government had lied...
In 1999, an 87-year-old British woman held a press conference in front of her home to announce that for nearly four decades, she’d worked as a spy for theSoviet Union. In fact, Melita Norwood was the Soviet Union’s longest-serving British spy. FromWorld War IIthrough theCold War, ...
In 1926 the weekly journal of the Independent Labour Party (ILP), the New Leader, welcomed a new editor. Fenner Brockway was an experienced journalist, a committed socialist, and devoted to the ILP. His appointment was a consequence of a more militant left-wing outlook gaining prevalence in ...
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John le Carré's newest novel "A Legacy of Spies"CBS News JOHN LE CARRÉ: I guess the other thing to say about this place, which is very important to me, is that the Cornish don't give a damn for celebrity. If they even know what I do they haven't read it. Or if they have...
Nobody among the residents of Bexleyheath, south-east London, could ever have imagined that their nice neighbor - the charming old lady Melita Norwood - was in fact one of the most important Soviet spies in Great Britain. Courtesy of Melita Norwood, Stalin was better informed about the constr...
Putting in the spies in Europe, and that sort of thing. They didn't want to divulge what they were buying through normal commercial channels." Bill Ross Smith, who worked for British Security Coordination in New York City, has argued: "Stephenson was exactly the right man, because he had...
The "Cold War" was officially dead and the Soviet Union collapsed a scant two years later.… Russian Conspiracy and Collusion A poll by pbn Whether based in truth or paranoia, Russian and Soviet spies and conspiracies are popular subjects in Western fiction. Which of these stories is ...
Greene’s own admiration for the Soviet Union waned over the years but he claimed he still preferred it to the United States. Philby said in a television interview once, “I won’t say that he (Greene) doesn’t like Americans as individuals, but what America stands for, American chauvinism...
“army spies” working alongside the police inside the UK raises hackles in the liberal media even without their alleged involvement in episodes such as the shooting dead of the innocent Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, misidentified by sources unknown as a jihadi terrorist, b...