News you may have missed #0006

• Former spy chief “shocked” to learn MI5 bugged people. Remarkably, Lady Manningham-Buller, former director general of MI5, told Britain’s House of Lords on June 19 that she did not realize MI5 engaged in bugging when she joined the service over 30 years ago.
• Man behind Canadian Nazi Party was Jewish spy, claims new book. In 1965 the Canadian Jewish Congress hired a spy to infiltrate the Canadian Nazi Party. The CJC tasked John Garrity with “build[ing] up the fledgling Canadian Nazi Party”, but he ultimately ended up helping turn the Canadian Nazi Party into a media sensation. This allegation is made in Shakedown, a new book by Canadian lawyer and journalist Ezra Levant.
• An interesting podcast with CIA’s former station chief in Kabul. Graham E. Fuller talked for over an hour to George Kenney, of Electric Politics, on what is really happening in Afghanistan.
• Russians declassify archives on valuable Soviet asset in WWII Germany. The files of Willi Lehmann, (codename Breitenbach) have been declassified by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Lehmann notified the Soviets of the exact time of the German invasion in 1941. He was arrested by the Gestapo and shot in 1942 [article in German].