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England’s Most Intense Foreign Assassination Campaign
When English intelligence had kidnap and kill as its highest priority
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Kyle Orton
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The Petrov Affair: Australia’s Most Sensational Spy Case
Revelations of Soviet espionage and political reaction Down Under.
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Kyle Orton
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Cuba Remains a Top-Tier Spy Threat
What we learn from the Discovery of Victor Manuel Rocha's treachery.
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Kyle Orton
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Remembering Entebbe: When Israel Fought Back Against the Soviet “Anti-Zionist” War
Film Review of ‘Raid on Entebbe’ (1977)
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Kyle Orton
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The Evidence Iran Was Behind the 7 October Pogrom in Israel
We have learned a lot in three months. It all confirms what we knew already.
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What is the CIA For?
The record of the CIA as a foreign intelligence agency is abysmal.
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Kyle Orton
The 1954 Coup in Guatemala is More Complicated Than American “Economic Imperialism”
The history behind a Leftist morality story about American capitalism and the CIA.
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Kyle Orton
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The Myth of the “American Coup” in Chile
Fifty years on, the myths about Salvador Allende's regime and downfall are alive and well.
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Kyle Orton
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Can Russia Ever Be Democratic?
A new paper by Maria Snegovaya argues that Russia's democratic transition in the 1990s did not fail; it never started. Assessing that argument raises…
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Kyle Orton
When the Soviets Turned Australian Intelligence Inside Out
The ABC’s Four Corners program reveals that in the late 1970s the Soviets recruited a mole at the top of ASIO counter-intelligence. In spy war terms…
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Kyle Orton
A Cold War Traitor in Britain: Labour Member of Parliament Tom Driberg
A window onto Soviet influence over sections of the Western Left.
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Kyle Orton
The Russian Orthodox Church is a Servant of Putin’s Intelligence Services
The KGB recruited Patriarch Kirill in the 1970s. He was not relieved of duty just because the Soviet Empire collapsed.
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Kyle Orton
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