News you may have missed #0071
August 19, 2009 Leave a comment
- CIA dismisses rumors Panetta is about to resign. The CIA is pushing back hard on insider rumors that Director Leon Panetta is frustrated and thinking about leaving at his one-year mark in February.
- Burma denies pursuing secret nuclear plans. The government of Myanmar has reportedly rebuffed claims that it is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.
- Is US war in Afghanistan turning into a counter-narcotics operation? Timely information about the Afghanistan Intelligence Fusion Center, an outsourced US operation based at the offices of the Afghan counternarcotics police in Kabul.
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BBC releases archival documents on KGB spy Guy Burgess
August 19, 2009 Leave a comment
Guy Burgess
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
The BBC’s archive unit has released 24 previously unpublished documents on Guy Burgess, a British-born KGB double spy who defected to Moscow during the early stages of the Cold War. Prior to joining the British Foreign Office, Burgess worked for the BBC as a producer of its Week in Westminster radio program, which covered British Parliamentary activity. The archival documents, some of which date back to 1936, shed light on his activities while at the BBC. They include a reference letter addressed to the BBC from Burgess’ academic mentor, renowned Cambridge University historian Sir George Trevelyan. In the letter, Professor Trevelyan describes Burgess as “a first rate man” and notes that “[h]e has passed through the communist measles that so many of our clever young men go through and is well out of it”. Read more of this post
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