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SPYCATCHER by PETER WRIGHT with Paul Greengrass WILLIAM
SPYCATCHER by PETER WRIGHT with Paul Greengrass WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AUSTRALIA First published in 1987 by HEINEMANN PUBLISHERS AUSTRALIA (A division of Octopus Publishing Group/Australia Pty Ltd) 85 Abinger Street, Richmond, Victoria, 3121. Copyright (c) 1987 by Peter Wright ISBN 0-85561-166-9 All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher. TO MY WIFE LOIS Prologue For years I had wondered what the last day would be like. In January 1976 after two decades in the top echelons of the British Security Service, MI5, it was time to rejoin the real world. I emerged for the final time from Euston Road tube station. The winter sun shone brightly as I made my way down Gower Street toward Trafalgar Square. Fifty yards on I turned into the unmarked entrance to an anonymous office block. Tucked between an art college and a hospital stood the unlikely headquarters of British Counterespionage. I showed my pass to the policeman standing discreetly in the reception alcove and took one of the specially programmed lifts which carry senior officers to the sixth-floor inner sanctum. I walked silently down the corridor to my room next to the Director-General's suite. The offices were quiet. Far below I could hear the rumble of tube trains carrying commuters to the West End. I unlocked my door. In front of me stood the essential tools of the intelligence officer’s trade - a desk, two telephones, one scrambled for outside calls, and to one side a large green metal safe with an oversized combination lock on the front. -
Kémek És Úriemberek Ugyanakkor Nem Világos, Hogy Mennyi Köz- Vetlen Haszna Származik Ománnak Egy Nuk- Leáris Megegyezésb L
124 Ha az ilyen lépések egy szélesebb közele- Maeve Flanagan déshez vezetnek, Kábúsz szultán nyitása Irán felé rendkívül elrelátó lépésnek bizonyulhat. Kémek és úriemberek Ugyanakkor nem világos, hogy mennyi köz- vetlen haszna származik Ománnak egy nuk- leáris megegyezésbl. A jelenlegi Irán elleni Ben Macintyre: A Spy Among Friends: Kim szankciók mellett Omán profitál az Egyesült Philby and the Great Betrayal (Crown, 2014, Arab Emirátusokból származó csempészáruk 384 oldal) cím könyvének bemutatása élénk kereskedelmébl, amelyeket az ománi Muszandam-félszigeten rakodnak kompokra, Harold Adrian Russell Philby-nek édesap- hogy a Hormuzi-szoroson át iráni kikötkbeja adta a Kim becenevet Rudyard Kipling szállítsák ket. Ha a szankciókat felfüggesz- azonos cím közkedvelt regényének cím- tik, ez a kereskedelem szinte egy csapásraszereplje után. A névválasztás akaratlanul megsznik, de legalábbis drasztikus mértékbenis találónak bizonyult, hisz Kim Philby- visszaesik. Ha pedig több iráni olaj kerül- a nek,vi a jövbeni ketts ügynöknek szintén lágpiacra, az az olajárak csökkenéséhez vezet,„két különböz személyisége” volt. ami viszont további nyomást gyakorol az ománi Kim Philby igazi birodalmi gyerek volt. költségvetésre. Apja, Hillary St. John Bridger Philby gyar- Ám ha nem lesz nukleáris megállapodás, mati tisztviselként szolgált Indiában. Kim, akkor nem valószín, hogy az Irán és Omán akit egy helyi dada nevelt, Indiában töl- közötti gázvezetéket – ami, tekintettel arra, tötte kora gyermekkorát. Angliába vissza- hogy az ománi tartalékok belátható idn belül térve Westminsterben járt iskolába, majd a kimerülnek, potenciális mentövként szolgálhat Cambridge-i Egyetem hallgatója lett. Philby – valaha is megépítik. Ennek ellenére a szultán apjának egyik indiai kollégája az a Valentine máris gyjti a tkét egy másik nagyszabású Vivian volt, aki késbb az MI6 igazgatóhe- beruházáshoz. -
Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (1893-1965) By
The Social, Political and Economic Determinants of a Modern Portrait Artist: Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (1893-1965) by MARIE CONSIDINE A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History of Art College of Arts and Law The University of Birmingham April 2012 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT As the first major study of the portrait artist Bernard Fleetwood-Walker (1893- 1965), this thesis locates the artist in his social, political and economic context, arguing that his portraiture can be seen as an exemplar of modernity. The portraits are shown to be responses to modern life, revealed not in formally avant- garde depictions, but in the subject-matter. Industrial growth, the increasing population, expanding suburbs, and a renewed interest in the outdoor life and popular entertainment are reflected in Fleetwood-Walker’s artistic output. The role played by exhibition culture in the creation of the portraits is analysed: developing retail theory affected gallery design and exhibition layout and in turn impacted on the size, subject matter and style of Fleetwood-Walker’s portraits. -
Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev: Review
Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev: review Spies by Haynes, Klehr and Vassiliev proves that the KGB’s infiltration of America started earlier and went deeper than we thought, finds Andrew Lownie By Andrew Lownie Published: 5:50AM BST 28 Jun 2009 A common perception is that, both before and after the Second World War, the British Establishment was penetrated by Soviet spies (most notably by the Cambridge Spy Ring) while America somehow escaped infiltration. This important new book, however, which is based on archival material – a rare luxury for intelligence historians – shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century. The authors estimate that from the Twenties more than 500 Americans from all walks of life, including many Ivy League graduates and Oxford Rhodes Scholars, were recruited to assist Soviet intelligence agencies, particularly in the State Department and America’s first intelligence agency, the OSS. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr have previously collaborated on books about the Venona spy intercepts and American Communism. Their co-author Alexander Vassiliev, a Russian journalist and former intelligence officer, collaborated on The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America. That book was based on controlled Russian intelligence documents, access to which was negotiated during a moment of Glasnost in the Nineties with a view to supplementing the KGB pension fund, championing Russian intelligence successes and creating a bit of disinformation mischief. What hadn’t been known until recently is that while working on The Haunted Wood, Vassiliev had transcribed and summarised innumerable KGB documents which he had smuggled out with him – more than 1,000 pages of notes – when he began a new life in America. -
Civil Servant Arthur Wynn Revealed As Recruiter of Oxford Spies
From The Times May 13, 2009 Civil servant Arthur Wynn revealed as recruiter of Oxford spies Arthur Wynn and his wife, Peggy, were Communist Party members Ben Macintyre and Steve Bird A Soviet mole who recruited a network of communist spies at Oxford before and during the war has been unmasked as Arthur Wynn, a distinguished former civil servant who was also “Agent Scott” of the KGB. Historians have speculated for years about the true identity of “Scott”, a British spy known to have recruited the Oxford Ring of spies and informants in parallel to the better-known Cambridge Ring of Soviet agents. Agent Scott first came to light when the KGB briefly permitted access to its files in 1992, but his true identity has been revealed after the discovery of a document written by the KGB’s former head of counter-intelligence. The double life of the British former bureaucrat was exposed in the American Weekly Standard magazine by the historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, a former KGB officer who gained access to the Soviet archives in the 1990s. The authors cite a memo dated July 1941 from the KGB’s head of counter-intelligence, Pavel Fitin, to Vsevolod Merkulov, the KGB chief, naming “Scott” as Wynn. The memo also identifies his recruiters as Theodore Mally, a KGB controller based in London, and Edith Tudor Hart, the Austrian-born KGB agent who also recruited the Soviet spy Kim Philby. “Scott is Arthur Wynn,” Fitin wrote to his spymaster. “About 35 years old, member of the CP [Communist Party] of England, graduated from Oxford and Cambridge univs, radio expert, design engineer for the Cossor Co. -
A British Diplomat Unmasked As a Soviet Spy Was Linked to the Profumo Scandal During His Time As Communist Affairs Correspondent on the Daily Telegraph
INFOSOURCES.INFO-22/3/2018-343_1 www.telegraph.co.uk Diplomat unmasked as a Soviet spy played role in Profumo scandal when working at The Daily Telegraph David Floyd Credit: Telegraph Media Group A British diplomat unmasked as a Soviet spy was linked to the Profumo scandal during his time as communist affairs correspondent on The Daily Telegraph. David Floyd confessed to spying for the Soviet Union while working as a translator at the British military mission and embassy in Moscow, according to newly released Foreign Office documents unearthed. Floyd’s son, Sir Christopher Floyd, who is one of the country’s highest ranking judges as a Lord Justice of Appeal, has told of his shock at learning his father worked for the Kremlin. 1 INFOSOURCES.INFO-22/3/2018-343_1 Floyd, who died aged 83 in 1997, went on to become a senior reporter with the Telegraph and attended a pivotal lunch in 1961 at the Garrick Club in London at which Captain Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet naval attache, met Stephen Ward, the osteopath and artist. Ward introduced both Ivanov and John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, to Christine Keeler. Both men had affairs with Keeler, the ensuing scandal forcing Profumo’s resignation and rocking the Conservative government of the day. Floyd’s outing as a Soviet spy may now force a reappraisal of the significance of his lunch with Ward and Ivanov at the outset of the Profumo scandal. Jeff Hulbert, a historian who obtained the Foreign Office documents through a series of freedom of information requests, said: “The usual interpretation of Floyd’s presence at the lunch was as a makeweight. -
Breaking the Codes: Jewish Personnel at Bletchley Park
Jewish Historical Studies, volume 40, 2005 Breaking the codes: Jewish personnel at Bletchley Park MARTIN SUGARMAN If students of the Second World War were to be asked which single organization contributed most to the defeat of the Axis forces between 1939 and 1945, many might agree that it was the code breakers at Bletchley Park Government Code and Cipher School (BP GC&CS), forerunner of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).1 On the basis of enemy messages decoded at BP, strategic decisions were made by Allied leaders which significantly altered the course of the war and saved count less lives. Established in 1938 as a branch of the Foreign Office, and leaning on previous experience, the part played by the staff at BP was revealed in 1974 in F. W. Winterbotham's book The Ultra Secret. The intelligence obtained from the codebreaking was called Ultra, and such information was passed only to the most senior Allied commanders in the field, in case the Germans realized their codes had been broken and changed them. Since then a small library of publications has appeared on the subject,2 as well as two significant films3 and several television documentaries. GC&CS was jokingly known to the staff as the 'Golf Club and Chess - - Society' a good cover name and had originally been founded at the end of the First World War. BP was known as Station X for a short time (the term was later used to describe any listening station, wherever located). As radio signals would have revealed the codebreaking school's location and made it a target for bombers, the radio station was moved away from BP soon after the outbreak of war. -
History Won't Allow Us to Let Sleeping Dogs Lie It Is an Injustice to Those Who Are Falsely Accused, Both Living and Dead, If the Secrets of the Past Remain Hidden
The Times May 14, 2009 History won't allow us to let sleeping dogs lie It is an injustice to those who are falsely accused, both living and dead, if the secrets of the past remain hidden Ben Macintyre Should old men be left in peace with their secrets? Should John Demjanjuk be dragged to justice on a hospital gurney to answer charges that he was Ivan the Terrible, a guard at Sobibor concentration camp? Should Pope Benedict XVI explain, finally, whether he was a member of Hitler Youth? And should Arthur Wynn, a former civil servant and pillar of the British scientific community, be exposed, eight years after his death and seventy years after his last known contact with Moscow, as “Agent Scott”, the KGB recruiter responsible for forging the Oxford ring of Soviet spies? There is only one honest answer. The imperative to account for the past should not be fired by ideology, morality or revenge, but by the desire for clarity and to pay the debt that we owe the past. If we let sleeping dogs lie, we give the lie to history. Britain remains fascinated with Soviet spies, and mole-hunting is still a national obsession, coloured by fiction. Indeed, the word “mole” was coined by John le Carré, capturing the silent, apparently innocuous burrower deep in the Establishment, undermining its foundations. Yet the great postwar mole-hunt, launched after the defections of Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, did huge damage, and not only to the credibility of the intelligence services. The innocent were tarred along with the guilty: many individuals were “identified” as Soviet spies on little or no evidence, and had their reputations ruined. -
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Benjamin Nathans [email protected] Please do not cite or circulate without author’s permission Tentative book title: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of the Soviet Dissident Movement Part Four: FROM THE OTHER SHORE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND SOVIET DISSIDENTS Dear Colleagues, My apologies for submitting such a long excerpt from my book ms. and my thanks in advance for your comments and critique. This pair of chapters represents the most explicitly transnational part of my book; the rest is focused more internally on the intellectual and political history of rights-based dissent in the Soviet Union after Stalin. I look forward very much to our discussion on April 12. Best, Ben Nathans CHAPTER 8: OMBUDSMAN OF THE WORLD Does the Soviet dissident movement belong to the broader history of youth protest that enveloped much of the industrialized world in the 1960s? This notion has tempted historians of ideas and international relations alike. From Paris and Berlin to Prague and Moscow (and in one version, in Berkeley and Beijing as well), it has been argued that a new generation of “sophisticated rebels” developed an “international language of dissent,” a “lingua franca of protest,” an “international dissident culture,” leading in 1968 to a “global disruption.” 1 ------------------------------------ 1 H. Stuart Hughes, Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968-1987 (Cambridge, 1990), makes a relatively restrained case for a shared culture of protest that was “sophisticated in the sense of recognizing realistic limits and frequently defying conventional Nathans/From the Other Shore/p.2 For Soviet dissidents, something more than a shared language or a set of transnational family resemblances was at work. -
University of California Riverside
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Elizabeth Maconchy: The Early Years, 1923 - 1939 A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music by Erica Janice Siegel August 2016 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Byron Adams, Chairperson Dr. Rogerio Budasz Dr. Walter Clark Copyright by Erica Janice Siegel 2016 The Dissertation of Erica Janice Siegel is approved: Committee Chairperson University of California, Riverside Acknowledgements This dissertation would have been impossible to complete without the assistance of several individuals. First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Nicola LeFanu for her incredible kindness, generosity, and assistance. I am also indebted to Dr. Jenny Doctor, Dr. Sophie Fuller, and Dr. Rhiannon Mathias, who have all made important contributions to scholarship on Maconchy and women composers in Britain. I would especially like to thank my advisor, Dr. Byron Adams, for his unwavering support, as well as my committee members Dr. Rogerio Budasz, Dr. Walter Clark, and Dr. Leonora Saavedra. Much of this research would have been impossible to complete without the generous funding of an IHR Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship, and I’d like to thank Dr. Lawrence Goldman and Vanessa Rockel for their support during my year as a Mellon Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. Several individual also offered their time and assistance over the course of my research in the UK, and I am particularly grateful to Dr. Dan Grimely, Dr. Leanne Langley, and Hugh Cobbe for their advice and guidance. I would also particularly like to thank Clara Colvin for her generous hospitality. -
The Jews of Norwich
ESTMINSTER Volume XI No.1 UARTERLY January 2020 Walter Rothschild and his zebra-drawn carriage outside the Albert Hall The Eccentric Walter Rothschild The Disputation of Paris Synagogues of Siena and Florence Humour in the Bible Lifecycle events Westminster Welcomes its New Members Inside this issue Thomas Karshan & Sarah Savitt Sarah Moshel David Romain & Camila Klich Don Valledor Karen & David Gorfil Mayer Rothschild Joanna Kaye Imola Nemes Rabbis Benji & Leah Jordan Polina Gruzer From the Rabbi 3 Ines Chung Halpern Sunny Iyer Jasmine Modiano Joe Crossley 4 Flora Solomon Gillian Solnick & Rory Farrell Sergey Sukhikh Michelle Jaffe-Pierce Jeremy Miles Notre Dame Treasures 5 Sharon Hutson-Wyler & George Hutson Charlotte Nahum Elias Canetti 6 Amy Anzel Amelia Walker Lisa Snutch Hebrew Corner 7 Births Disputation of Paris 8 Eli Levy - a son for Carey & Yoav on 14th August Walter Rothschild 10 Zena Karshan-Savitt - a daughter for Sarah & Thomas on 16th August th Leo & Maxim Lobel - twin sons for Claudia & Mark on 8 October Evelyn Friedlander z”l 12 Infant Blessings 13 st Ilana Alexander z”l David, Daniel, Samuel and Raphael Raba on 31 August Two Italian Synagogues 14 B’nei Mitzvah Jacob & Sasha Sandelson on 14th September 15 Amusement Arcade Luke Meyohas on 21st September Raphael Halabi on 26th October The Jews of Norwich 16 Marriages & Blessings Book Review 18 Eve & Eli Rosenberg on 22nd August Poetry Page 19 Ashley Tabor & George King on 23rd August Greg Lassman & Romina Richardson on 26th August Humour in the Bible 20 Danny Strauss & -
Victor Rothschild, 3Rd Baron Rothschild - Wikipedia
5/12/2020 Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild - Wikipedia Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS[1] (31 The Right Honourable October 1910 – 20 March 1990) was a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the The Lord Rothschild UK, as well as a member of the prominent Rothschild family. GBE GM FRS Contents Biography Early life Cambridge and London World War II Cold War, Shell and Think Tank Thatcher years and Spycatcher Family Honours and awards Titles Decorations Born Nathaniel Mayer Notes Victor Rothschild References 31 October 1910 Died 20 March 1990 Biography (aged 79) Nationality British Alma mater Trinity College, Early life Cambridge Rothschild was the only son of Charles Rothschild and Rózsika Rothschild (née Baroness Edle Occupation Biologist von Wertheimstein). Both parents were Jewish, his father a member of the Rothschild banking Spouse(s) Barbara Judith family and his mother the daughter of the first titled Jew in Austria. He grew up in Waddesdon Hutchinson Manor and Tring Park Mansion, among other family homes. He had three sisters, including Teresa Georgina Pannonica de Koenigswarter (who would become known as the "Jazz Baroness") and Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild. Rothschild suffered the suicide of his father when he was 13 years Mayor old. He was educated at Harrow School. Children 6, including: Jacob Rothschild, 4th Cambridge and London Baron Rothschild Emma Georgina At Trinity College, Cambridge, he read physiology, French, and English. He played first-class Rothschild cricket for the University and Northamptonshire.