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This programme is about spies, the tools of their trade and the innocent people they’ve spied on … All this is the work of British Intelligence … We show how Britain’s secret servants are beyond control sidestepping the law and invading our privacy. World in Action: Defending the Realm, ITV 1991
The ease with which confidential information can be grabbed from a remote screen. ibid.
This was a grave national security breach, the extent of which is hard to fathom. Four Corners: Russia’s Secret Spy, old boy, ABC 2023
Asio has been warned for years that it’s been penetrated by Russia’s feared spy agency, the KGB. ibid.
The mole has top secret security clearance. ibid.
His treachery comes in the twilight of a 30-plus-year career. ibid.
The breakthrough comes from another Russia defector: Vasili Mitrokhin. ibid.
The mole is Ian George Peacock, a senior operations manager in Asio Sydney office. ibid.
1969: After years of development work and months of delay Concorde was about to take off for the first time. But Concorde was not the world’s first supersonic engine jet to fly. She had been beaten into the air by her Soviet rival: Konkordski. Secret History s4e6: Konkordski, Channel 4 1996
The Russian ‘Concorde’ crashed in 1973 at the Paris Air Show in what we will reveal to be extraordinary circumstances. ibid.
In France the Russians recruited secret agents. Their mission: to penetrate Concorde’s factories. ibid.
In 1988 Russia buried a hero. He was a legend of the KGB. But he was no Russian … ‘The Soviet Union has buried the spy Kim Philby with full military honours.’ The Real Spies Among Friends, BBC news, ITV 2023
Kim Philby belonged to the most notorious spy ring in British history. Young men born to privilege who reached the heart of the British establishment. Then betrayed its greatest secrets. The Cambridge spies deceived their friends. And made a mockery of British intelligence. ibid.
Donald Maclean becomes the second Soviet spy, codenamed Orphan. ibid.
The timebomb – Guy Burgess – is now a Russian spy codename Girl. And the next Soviet recruit would be his recommendation – Anthony Blunt, codenamed Tony. ibid.
Maclean is so successful the Russians give him a new codename – Homer. ibid.
‘The defection causes a firestorm in Britain.’ ibid.
On 30th August 1963 Guy Burgess dies of acute liver failure. He was 52. ibid.
Philby is reunited with Donald Maclean. Then betrays his fellow traitor by sleeping with his wife. ibid.
Four years later Blunt dies of a cancer. Three weeks earlier in Moscow Donald Maclean had succumbed to cancer. And in 1988 after decades of heavy drinking, Kim Philby dies in Moscow. ibid.
A mysterious death, possibly a tragic accident. Another theory is suicide. While some observers are convinced this very public death in central London was an act of murder. The victim a man of wealth, power and intrigue. Ashraf Marwan: Death of a Superspy, Youtube 46.21, Al Jazeera 2020
On that June day in 2007 the genteel rose garden was filled with police. ibid.
The third Egyptian living in London to die in this way. ibid.
What is in dispute is whether he was working for Israel, his native Egypt, or both. ibid.
There are few tales of spying and espionage shrouded in as much mystery as the death of Ashraf Marwan. He was an Egyptian businessman and a spy for the Israeli Intelligence Agency the Mossad. Codenamed Angel, Ashraf Marwan is credited by the Mossad with having saved Israel during the 1973 Arab/Israeli war. However, both Egypt and Israel claim him as a national hero. True Life Spy Stories: The Egyptian Spy Who Fell From the Balcony: Fallen Angel, Youtube short 23.20, 2023
On 27th June 2007 at around 1.30 p.m. Marwan fell from the first floor of his £4.4 million London flat located at 24 Carlton House Terrace. He landed in a private rose garden. ibid.
Operation Jawbreaker: You are to hunt down Bin Laden and his lieutenants, and then when you kill Bin Laden you cut his head off … Spy Ops I: Operation Jawbreaker, Ops dude, Netflix 2023
Money went to [Northern Alliance] leaders that needed it. ibid.
Our troops were not satisfied with the American attacks. ibid. Northern Alliance dude
As the forces of the Northern Alliance rolled into Kabul the people took to the streets. ibid. US news
The big prize [Manuel] Noriega – we can’t find him. Spy Ops II: Operation Just Cause, observer
Carter came in – he agreed to end the zone and turn it over to Panama. ibid.
He [Noriega] started to oppress/suppress the political establishment in Panama, he started to torture and kill his political opponents. ibid.
The Panamanians refer to it as the American invasion of Panama. ibid.
Moscow, Soviet Union, 1985, Operation Pimlico: Olev Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer, is perhaps one of the greatest spies that ever worked for MI6, British Intelligence. Spy Ops III: Operation Pimlico, man in the know
The most audacious and brave attempt ever undertaken to rescue an officer from Moscow. ibid.
He knew the names of several agents in Norway, Sweden, UK. He passed on the names of 200 people. ibid.
I was under strong suspicion and my life was in danger. ibid. Gordievsky
Rome, Italy, 13th May 1981: I probably would have shot more but the incredible thing is that the gun jammed. Spy Ops IV: The Plot to Kill the Pope, assassin
Many secret services got involved in this case. ibid. woman in the know
The ‘stay-behind’ was set up at the end of the Second World War on the initiative of the United States and the Pentagon under the auspices of NATO. It was a matter of creating a whole network of ultra-secret sleeper cells from violent right-wing extremist groups all over the NATO member countries, recruiting young people while training them, and they could be used in case the Soviet Union tried to invade Europe again. ibid.
My belief is that it was related to the Vatican Bank crash, to the billions that disappeared. ibid.
Munich 1972: I could not believe that terrorists could penetrate the Olympic Village. Spy Ops V: Operation Wrath of God I
If we can kill the leaders of the organisation … We need to send a group of commandos out of the country … ibid.
Golda says it is a war to protect Israeli lives. And in a war mistakes can happen. ibid.
Over the last 18 months a series of Arabs have mysterious been blown up or shot dead in several European capitals. Spy Ops VI: Operation Wrath of God II, UK news
The killing of the heads of Black September was an extremely successful mission. ibid. Israeli
Afghanistan 2003: As soon as the Taliban government had been toppled, which was much swifter then many in the US government had expected, $38 billion poured in, so there was a lot of reconstruction. In US eyes the war in Afghanistan was over … Next stop Baghdad. Spy Ops VII: Taliban Spies, author
During the fight against the Soviets, refugee camps were stood up in Pakistan so it was easy for Taliban to go there to recruit people. ibid. US dude
During the Cold War both the United States and the Soviet Union deployed submarines with ballistic missiles. Spy Ops VIII: Project Azorian
They were looking for an object [sunken sub] three miles below the surface. ibid. man in the know