Stalin has a bomb. His [Dolby’s] bosses took credit of course. But Dolby wasn’t finished. He told them he wanted to start a new Intelligence unit. The Ipcress File s1e2
Six months ago Dawson began treatment for stress … Dawson was abducted by a British mercenary, the psychiatrist is dead and the mercenary, presumably with his valuable captive, has gone to ground. The Ipcress File s1e3, Dolby
You’re going on a mission. You are going to snoop, to stir things up, and to find out what you can. Alice will furnish you with further details. The Ipcress File s1e4, Dolby to Harry
He won’t be needing it for a while will he? Not fond of him, were you? Because I shouldn’t think we’ll ever see him again. The Ipcress Files s1e5, Alice to Jean
The subject escaped. Now our primary concern is to ensure that should he surface there is no connection to us. The Ipcress File s1e6, US committee
We all have to lie. Each in our own way. And now it’s over for both of us. Thank God for that. ibid. Dolby’s partner
Julian Assange refused permission to appeal against US extradition by UK’s top court: Assange is wanted in America following Wikileaks’ publication of classified files:
Britain’s top court has refused Wikipeaks’ founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the US to face spying charges.
A Supreme Court spokesperson said that senior judges had refused Assange’s bid to challenge the decision as his case did not raise ‘an arguable point of law’. Independent online article 14 March 2022
A top-secret operation carried out during the Second-World War. The file describes the Jack King operation … A fight was waged in the shadows against an invisible enemy – the Firth Column. Jack King Affair, History 2022
The secrets of British Counter-Intelligence: secrets of infiltration, manipulation, misinformation and deception. ibid.
He [Bingham] was one of MI5’s best officers. A trustworthy agent devoted to serving Her Majesty. ibid.
He [Bingham] was able to give a huge list to the authorities of the people who were Nazis. ibid. daughter
One section within MI5 was specifically responsible for circulating misinformation. ibid.
This is a secret world of espionage. Told by the spies themselves. A tale of assassination. Manipulation. Deception. Secrets of the Spies I: Deception, ITV 2022
‘The world of espionage is all around us. Deceit and manipulation are hardwired into the profession.’ ibid. James Wolff, former British Intelligence officer
The Allies are prepared to invade northern France. But an enemy spy is sending military secrets back to the Germans. Agent Brutus. Roman Czerniawski. ibid. caption
MI6 employs a group of spies like Brutus to feed false information to the Germans. ibid.
‘The tanks were dummy rubber blow-up tanks, the landing craft were made of balsa wood and many of the aircraft were dummy aircraft.’ ibid. Nigel West
1934 Cambridge: The double agent. In Cambridge in the 1930s communism is attracting the university’s intelligent elite. One of these recruits is Kim Philby. In 1940 the Soviet agent Kim Philby joins British intelligence. ibid.
He is one of a ring of spies recruited with him known as the Cambridge Five. ibid.
Western codebreakers start to make some inroads … There might be a spy in Washington, in the British embassy; suspicion eventually falls on Donald Maclean. ibid.
Kim Philby lives in Moscow until his death in 1988. He remained a committed communist until the end. ibid.
Spies are drawn to cities where there is power and there is influence. Secrets of the Spies II: A Tale of Assassination, former intelligence officer
The Russian and Soviet state has a murky tradition of killing people it regards as its enemies. ibid. Luke Harding, author
A good spy has to be comfortable with the idea of lying and the idea of manipulating someone. It is one of the peculiarities of the profession. Secrets of the Spies III: Manipulation, former intelligence officer
The detection of John Vassall really came about through information supplied through a defector from the Soviet Union. ibid.
A Spy Named Cynthia: London 1937, the Second World War is on the horizon: Britain’s secret intelligence service turns to Sexpionage to uncover the secrets of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. ibid.
It’s not an easy decision, there’s a lot of heart-searching that always goes on for anyone who goes public about the intelligence agencies because of the extremely high price you have to pay. ibid. Annie Machon, former MI5 intelligence officer
Snowden’s leaks also revealed GCHQ has ways of manipulating targets online – wreaking havoc from a desk. ibid.
Forbidden Stories, an international organisation of investigative journalists, and Amnesty International have accessed a leak of 50,000 phone numbers. They suspected the leaked list contained numbers selected for potential surveillance by a spyware known as Pegasus, developed by the NSO Group in Israel. Storyville: The Spy in Your Mobile, captions, BBC 2023
‘It’s clearly the biggest spyware scandal since Snowden.’ ibid. news
With 80 journalists from 17 different news outlets collaborating, this is one of the biggest international new investigations. ibid. caption
Amnesty International’s Security Lab has been tracking Pegasus since 2016. ibid.
At first, Pegasus gains access by sending anonymous texts messages to their targets. ibid.
In 2020 a phone belonging to Al Jazeera Arabic was hacked. Over the next few months working with an organisation called Citizen Lab, the team from Al Jazeera unpicked an extraordinary story of some of the most advanced spyware in the world and how it’s used. The Spy in Your Phone, 47.07, Al Jazeera World 2021
Israel manufactures Pegasus, some of the most advanced spyware in the world. ibid.
Various governments have brought the spyware for their own use. ibid.
Inside the secret world of the surveillance industry … The spy merchants willing to sell powerful eavesdropping equipment to anyone willing to pay. Spy Merchants, Al Jazeera Investigations 2021
And we expose the methods used to cover their tracks. ibid.
Inside the spyware game: big money, dirty tricks, and a legal structure unable to control who is spying on you. ibid.
Robert Hendy-Freegard lied and convinced his prey that he was an MI5 secret agent. Believing the IRA were baying for his blood, his victims paid the ultimate price for his bogus protection. Conmen Case Files s2e5: Hendy Freegard: The Real Story of the Puppet Master
Freegard’s cruelty was becoming infinite. ibid.
Freegard ensnares new victims with his vicious MI5 con. ibid.
Hendy-Freegard was finally in custody after ten years of cruelty … The police had to locate the missing victims. ibid.
The life sentence was a bitter-sweet victory for his victims … The sentence was shockingly reduced to ten years. ibid.
A message sent from Beirut by Cohen in the 1940s to the Intelligence section of the Jewish agency … the agency would later become Mossad. The Beirut Spy: Shula Cohen, Al Jazeera World 2017
She had blue eyes, was attractive and classy, with a strong presence. ibid.
It’s not entirely clear how Shula became a spy. ibid.
‘There was a private network to smuggle people, run by Shula Cohen.’ ibid. dude
Lebanese Intelligence sets a trap for Shula Cohen contrived by the man with whom she had fallen in love. ibid.
Mr Wallace, who is presently serving ten years for manslaughter in an English jail, is known to have links with British Intelligence. The Man Who Knew Too Much, news, Youtube 1.08.03, Endevr 2020
Wallace claimed he was an intelligence officer. Wallace alleges he became involved in a black propaganda campaign by the security services. ibid.
He says he was the victim of an MI5 dirty tricks campaign. ibid.
Some accuse successive Tory governments of emboldening Russia in the years leading up to the invasion. Were warning about Putin’s malign intentions ignored? This is the story of how Russia sought to influence British politics. Dispatches: Strippers, Spies & Russian Money, Channel 4 2023
It’s also the story of how the Conservative Party accepted millions from Russia-linked donors. So was Britain’s national security put at risk? ibid.
The number of Russia spies in London remained at Cold War levels. ibid.
The Conservative ‘Friends of Russia’ was launched by prominent figures in the Tory Party. ibid.
Lord Barker isn’t the only peer who’s been linked to Putin’s oligarchs. ibid.
It has taken me all these years to realise who he really is and the despicable hateful things he’s done. A Spy Among Friends I: Boom-ooh-yatatatah, ITV 2022
Kim has to be handled by SIS not MI5 … I mean me. ibid. Elliott
I came to tell you that your past has caught up with you. ibid. Elliott to Philby
I first met him in 1940 at my club … He has this capacity to draw people in. ibid. Elliott