MI6 Anecdotes

 ESPIONAGE ANECDOTES 002 What is it with the British political elite and Russia? Johnson and Cummings have been worshipping all things Russian since they were teenagers and the Sunak mob have a mere £650 million invested in Russia. An unusual report on the web entitled Britain's Dismal Dossier on Russian Political Infiltration by Bill Fairclough (author of The Burlington Files autobiographical espionage series) actually names over 60 people with "Russian links" known to Johnson/Cummings who may have influenced their past decisions. Rest assured that your understanding of UK/USA/Russian politics will change completely forever if you read the report.   Do ask yourself, have you as many friends and acquaintances from any foreign nation as Johnson and/or Cummings have somehow accumulated in Russia? Why should anyone believe Johnson puts his country before himself or believe his anti-Russian rhetoric? In 2016 when campaigning for Brexit he accused the EU of provoking Rus...

ESPIONAGE ANECDOTES 001 If you're interested in the Cambridge Five, this anecdote may be of interest. John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties!   Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton...