A Brief History of the Spy (35 page)

PLO:
Palestine Liberation Organisation. Political and paramilitary organization aiming to set up a separate Palestinian state.
Politburo:
the leading members of the Communist party. Usually referring to the USSR, but each country had its own politburo.

SDECE:
External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service. The French intelligence agency between 1944 and 1982. Replaced by the DGSE.

SIG:
Special Investigation Group. A team set up by James Jesus Angleton to investigate potential spies within the CIA.

SIGINT:
SIGnals INTelligence: information received from messages passed between opposing forces.

SIS:
See MI6.

SMERSH:
derived from the Russian term SMERt’ SHpionam (Death to Spies). This was a part of the NKVD during the Second World War. Its notoriety derives from its use by Ian Fleming in the James Bond novels written in the 1950s, although the real SMERSH was disbanded in 1946.

SOE:
Special Operations Executive. The sabotage wing of British intelligence during the Second World War. It derived from MI6’s Section D, and was folded back into MI6 after the end of hostilities.

SPG:
Special Procedures Group. Part of the CIA tasked with aiding anti-Communist parties to win the Italian elections after the Second World War.

SSA:
South African State Security Agency. The South African intelligence service since 2009.

Stasi:
Staatssicherheit. The Ministry for State Security in East Germany. The intelligence agency for the East German Communist regime.

StB:
Státní Bezpeènost (State Security). The Czech secret service between 1945 and 1990.

Sûreté:
the French police.

SVR:
Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. The successor to the KGB.

tradecraft:
the ways in which a spy operates in order to maintain their cover.

TSD:
Technical Services Division. The real-life Q Branch of the CIA, creating all the gadgets and technology required by agents. And the occasional Acoustic Kitty.

watchers:
counter-intelligence agents monitoring a target.

wet work/wet affairs:
a euphemism for murder and assassinations, deriving from the spilling of blood.

Abdoolcader, Sirioj Husein
100
,
116

Abel, Colonel Rudolf Invanovich
71–2
,
76

ABLE ARCHER
83
160

Abse, Leo
102

Acoustic Kitty
107

Adenauer, Konrad
57

aerospace research
118
,
140
,
156
,
248

see also
nuclear weapons and research

Afghanistan

Russian occupation
114
,
149–50
,
194
,
196–7
,
200
,
210
,
211
,
212

US invasion
223

Agee, Philip
129–30
,
170

AIDs
181–2

Air America
112–13

Akhmerov, Iskhak
26

al-Balawi, Humam
237

al-Fadl, Jamal Ahmed
219

al-Janabi, Rafid Ahmed Alwan ‘Curveball’
228
,
229–31

al-Kuwaiti, Abu Ahmed
236–7

al-Libi, Abu Faraj
237

al-Mergrahi, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed
209

al-Qaeda
xiii
,
200
,
205–6
,
210
,
211–12
,
219
,
220–1
,
222
,
223–6
,
233
,
235–7

al-Qahtani, Mohammed
236

Alexander II, Tsar
7

Ali, Abdullah Ahmed
234–5

Allen, Sir Mark
226

Allende Gossens, Salvador
125
,
126

Ames, Aldrich
166–7
,
168
,
172
, 178,
185
,
186–7
,
194
,
195
,
214
,
241
,
244

Ames, Robert
208

Amin, Hafizullah
149–50

Andropov, Uri
67
,
100
,
105–6
,
139
,
141
,
152
,
158
,
160
,
180

Angleton, James Jesus
92–3
,
119–23

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
54

Arafat, Yasser
206

Árbenz Guzmán, Jacobo
56

Arlington Hall
28–30

Armas, Colonel Carlos Castillo
56

Armstrong, Sir Robert
187–8

Ashcroft, Attorney General John
247

ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service)
148–9
,
161–2

assassinations

banned by President Ford
143

by Bogdan Stashinsky
74

Georgi Markov
141–2

John F. Kennedy
63
,
93–4
,
180

Leon Trotsky
8

Osama bin Laden
235–9

Reinhard Heydrich
5

Tsar Alexander II
7

Atlee, Clement
22

atomic bombs
see
nuclear weapons projects and research

Australia
31–2
,
122
,
134
,
187–8

Babar, Mohamed
234

Baer, Robert
94

Bakatin, General Vadim
199

Baker, James
76

Baker Jr., Howard H.
123

Bandera, Stepan
74

Bao Dai, Emperor
61

Barot, Dhiren
234

Barton Osborn, K.
111

Baruch, Bernard
21

Bay of Pigs
87
,
89

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
12
,
15
,
141
,
145
,
248

Bearden, Milt
195

Belgium
84
,
85

Belhadji, Abdelhakim
226

Beneš, Edvard
37

Bennett, Leslie James
122

Bentley, Elizabeth
25–8
,
29
,
51

Berezovsky, Boris
249

Beria, Lavrentiy
8
,
58

Berlin
xvi
,
21
,
40–1
,
53
,
78
,
83
,
85
,
208

Wall
74
,
85
,
197

Bettany, Michael
159

Biden, Joe
130
,
239

bin Laden, Osama
xiii
,
200
,
210–12
,
219
,
220–1
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
226
,
235–9

Bissell, Richard
87

Black Friday
77–8

Blair, Tony
204
,
227
,
248

Blake, George
53–4
,
81
,
83–4
,
95

Bland Report
5–6

Bletchley Park
4
,
13
,
14

Blix, Hans
230

Bloch, Felix
195–6

Blunt, Anthony
10
,
11–12
,
14
,
33
,
95
,
157

BND
74
,
75
,
84
,
104
,
139
,
228
,
229
,
230
,
231
,
242

Bohlen, Charles
21
,
22

Bohm, Gerald
104

Bokhan, Sergei
167–8

Boland, Edward P.
190
,
191

Bolshakov, Georgi
90

Bolshevik Party
7

Bond, James (films)
xii
,
10
,
99
,
132

Bond, James (novels)
xiii
,
2
,
9–10
,
60
,
68
,
99

Boren, Senator David
186

Bormann, Martin
9

BOSS (Bureau for State Security)
xv
,
200

Bossard, Frank
101
,
108

Botha, Pik
181

Bouchiki, Ahmed
206–7

Bourne Identity
film trilogy
63–4
,
188

Bowman, Spike
175

Boyce, Christopher John ‘the Falcon’
134–5

Boyle, Andrew
157

brainwashing
64
,
83
,
127

Brandt, Willy
105
,
120–1
,
130–1

Bravo, Rafael
248

Brehznev, Leonid
100
,
105
,
106
,
146
,
152

British Army
102
,
202

British Ministry of Aviation
101
,
108

British Navy / Admiralty
68
,
74
,
92

British Union of Fascists
3–4

Britten, Douglas
101

Brockway, Lord
158

Browder, Earl
26

Brunet, Giles G.
122

Brzezinski, Zbigniew
136

Bulawayo Chronicle
181

Bulgaria
141

Burgess, Guy
10
,
11–12
,
13
,
15
,
32
,
33
,
47
,
52
,
100
,
120

Bush, George H. W.
129
,
142
,
147

Bush, George W.
200
,
217
,
221
,
222
,
227
,
229
,
233

Butler Report
227

Cahill, Joe
202

Cairncross, John
10
,
12
,
13
,
14–15
,
33
,
95
,
157

Callaghan, James
146
,
148
,
201

Campbell, Alastair
227–8

Canada
23–4
,
25
,
95
,
122
,
137
,
254

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
24
,
95

Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm
9

Carter, Jimmy
136
,
142
,
143
,
190

Casey, William J.
119
,
152–3
,
156
,
181
,
183
,
189–90
,
192–3
,
214–15

Castro, Fidel
85–8
,
127

Cecil, Robert
14

Central Intelligence Group
19
,
36

Chapman, Anna
xvi
,
250–4

Charteris, Leslie
12

Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage)
8

Cherkashin, Victor
165
,
166
,
168
,
170
,
178
,
186–7
,
214

Chernenko, Konstantin
152
,
160

Chernomyrdin, Viktor S.
243

Chernyaev, Rudolf
136

Chiang Kai-shek
20
,
54

Chilcott Inquiry
227

Chile
124–6

Chin, Larry Wu-Tai
176–7

China
8
,
20
,
37
,
44
,
48–50
,
54
,
83
,
108
,
175–7

Chou, Y. T.
133

Church Committee
127–8

Church, Russian Orthodox
138–9

Church, Senator Frank
127–8

Churchill, Sir Winston
5
,
20
,
22
,
35–6

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
xii
,
xv
,
47
,
74
,
100
,
152
,
181
,
198
,
208
,
242
,
246

Abdelhakim Belhadj
226

Abu Zubaida
224–5

access to Soviet landlines
52–4

Adolf Tolkachev
154–6
,
166

agents in Moscow
62–3
,
138
,
143–5
,
153
,
154–6
,
166–8
,
254

Air America
112–13

Aldrich Ames
166–7
,
168
,
185
,
194
,
214

Aleksander Zhomov
194–5

Alexsandr Ogorodnik
143–5
,
166

Anatoliy Golitsyn
92–3
,
120
,
121
,
122

Arkady Shevchenko
145–6

Brian Kelley
246

checking US mail
123

Chile
124–6

Church Committee
127–8

Civil Air Transport Co. Ltd
49–50

Cuba
86
,
87–8

Dimitri Polyakov
101
,
107–8
,
143
,
166
,
177

enhanced interrogation
xii
,
223–6

‘Falcon’ and the ‘Snowman’
134–5