Drunks Who Can't Keep Secrets: KGB's Verdict On The Cambridge Five Revealed As Top Secret Soviet Documents Are Made Available To The Public For The First Time -- Daily Mail
* According to KGB the Cambridge Five were a bunch of drunkards
* The damning verdict is revealed in the Mitrokhin Archive
* Documents have been made available for the first time today
* The file contains profiles of around 200 British KGB collaborators
Their willingness to betray their country to the Soviet Union earned them great notoriety.
But according to their KGB handlers, the Cambridge Five were a bunch of drunkards who could not be relied upon to keep a secret.
The damning assessment of the university spy ring recruited in the 1930s is revealed in the Mitrokhin Archive, a file of top secret Soviet documents being made available to the public for the first time today.
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More News On The Mitrokhin Archive
KGB defector's cold war secrets are revealed at last -- The Guardian
KGB thought British spies were drunk or unreliable -- The Australian/The Times
The Mitrokhin archive: KGB defector's copied files reveal Soviet dismay at ‘constantly drunk’ Guy Burgess -- The Independent
Soviet defector’s trove of KGB secrets made public -- AP
Soviet defector's trove of KGB secrets released -- FOX News/AP
Now this is stuff that really interests me. How do we know this is the truth? Sometimes the KGB would take the really long view on things like this and I wonder what Angleton would have thought about it.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of the Mitrokhin Archive .... because most (if not all) of the participants have admitted their guilt .... I would have to say that it is true. But it is also true that the use of disinformation is a Russian art and specialty .... something that I myself was thought by those that I looked up to when I was young and growing up in the old Soviet Union.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note .... I guess this is why I like social media. Using disinformation in today's information world is harder because it can be discredited very quickly .... and usually within 24 hours.
I'll try looking it up but who are the rest of the 200?
ReplyDeletePeople have to see the penetration no just of the British Secret Service but of the press, universities and of course the pols.
If skulls full of mush can see how many university profs and journalists were traitors and they know that there is nothing new under the sun, those facts should lead them to conclude there are traitors now at universities and in the press.
It would be a victory if they were more skeptical.
I will quote my father who was born in the Soviet Union, grew up in the Soviet Union, top Communist Party member, war hero, Soviet patriot, etc. etc. who told me something when I told him that I was going to live in the West. Son .... there are more Communists in the West than in the Soviet Union.
ReplyDeleteHe was (and still is) so right.
Heh! Your old man was pretty smart.
ReplyDeleteAs I grow older James I appreciate how incredibly smart (and lucky) my father was. Survived the Ukraine famine. Survived the purges of Stalin. Survived the Second World War. He studied hard. Worked hard. Sacrificed hard. And succeeded in a Communist system becoming one of the elite. But confidentially James .... he hated Communism with a passion .... and when the communist flag was finally brought down at the Kremlin .... we were there and we were both stunned on shock on how it all came down so quickly. It is a memory that will be with me forever .... and yes .... I miss my dad with each passing day.
ReplyDeleteWhen we are young things (institutions, culture, people, etc) seem so permanent, but as we age we see with our own eyes how ephemeral all things and people really are. That's some curricular vitae for your Dad.
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