Wilhelm Wassmuss (1880-1931 or 1935). Most people have heard of T.E. Lawrence, the British military intelligence officer from the First World War, immortalised by the famous movie “Lawrence of Arabia”. But very few people know that there was another spy working in the same area at the same time who …
Widespread television coverage was recently given to Vladimir Putin’s celebration of “Russian Navy Day”. There were all the speeches, parades and razzamatazz that Putin loves. But, behind the scenes, the GUR, the Ukrainian military intelligence service, had been busy. Russian marines were pleased to find messages of support on their …
On 24 February 2006, UK legal history was made. On that day, MI6 (UK Foreign Intelligence Service) agreed to pay three ex-servicemen £10,000 each in an out of court settlement having been accused of assaulting them. A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said: “The settlement offers were …
A new Soviet agent from the “Golden Age” of Cold War spying has just been uncovered for the first time. He is UK citizen Nicholas Burby and he worked for the Czech StB from 1980 to 1989. (StB = Statni Bezpecnost, the Czech intelligence service). Burby was a military aviation …
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Scotland (1882-1965) In February 1947 some strange headlines appeared in British newspapers such as: “MI5 officer was on Nazi General Staff!” and “Britain’s Master Spy!”. Of course, the headlines were all poppycock as newspaper headlines generally are. But beneath those headlines lurked a story of a first …