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Acknowledgements
This is a book about secret intelligence and, as such, obviously very few of the dozens who assisted me will thank me for mentioning them here, or highlighting their particular role in the book. You know who you are and I thank you for your patience, your trust that I would try my best to portray your profession faithfully and your tolerance of my criticisms. I beg forgiveness if, despite your best efforts, I have failed to grasp the point. There is, of course, a warm beer behind the bar for you – preferably at the Gandamack Lodge, when it reopens.
There are some, however, who must be thanked publicly. With me throughout, as she was with Ghost Plane and Operation Snakebite, has been the unstoppable and razor-sharp researcher Christina Czapiewska, who had a lot to contribute too from her own personal knowledge and contacts. At different times, I also had tremendous additional research help from Lucy Bond, Jerome Taylor and Daniel Douglas. Particular thanks to my old friend John Goetz, who helped me explore the world of German espionage. And also to Stelios Orphanides, who helped track down EOKA fighters, and thank you to Susan Hollowday for sharing Zanina Hollowday’s beautiful diary of her time in Cyprus. Thanks to Spanish investigative journalist Marco García Rey for his great assistance on the F1 case in Barcelona: I hope we shall keep digging into that one. I must also thank the hyper-generous Philippe Madelin, who helped set up interviews in Paris but sadly died in 2010. I also appreciate the help of the group of cage-prisoners in arranging several interviews.
Thanks too to colleagues who shared some of their adventures, enabling me to learn more about the intelligence world, and to those who have encouraged and funded these trips, in particular David Fanning and Dan Edge at PBS Frontline (Dan, I thank you unforgivably late for proofreading my last book); Dorothy Byrne and Kevin Sutcliffe of Channel 4; Kate Clark of the Afghan Analysts Network and Afghan producer Shoaib Sharifi; Sean Ryan at the Sunday Times; Michael Williams and Simon Robinson at Reuters. Thanks to all at Reuters for giving me time to finish this project. And I would especially like to thank my friend Mark Hosenball, Washington intelligence correspondent, who advised me throughout and introduced me to some of his key contacts. Thanks too to Gordon Corera and David Loyn at the BBC.
This book had many inspirations, but it only came to be thanks to an idea and commission from Penguin’s Tony Lacey and Jon Elek (now working at a leading London literary agency), after an introduction by my old friend Jason Burke. Michael Flamini at St Martin’s Press in New York was an enthusiastic and wise supporter throughout, as was Joel Rickett, who took over the project at Penguin and reinvigorated it – and me! In production, Lesley Levene and Emma Brown carefully took the project to the finish line. Thanks too to my agents, first Emma Parry and then Grainne Fox, for their constant encouragement. Thank you all for bearing with me.
Thanks too to those who took the time and trouble to read the manuscript and make suggestions, including J and J, two wise ex-professionals from different sides of the Atlantic, my dear friend Rupert Chetwynd and of course my wife, Rebecca, for her suggestions and, above all, her steadfast loving support.
As ever, the errors are mine alone.
Index
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In Arabic names the definite article (al-), used as a prefix, is ignored in the ordering o
f entries.
Aalem, Mohamed (aka Mohamed Amin)
misidentification as Amanullah
Abbottabad
ABC Nightline
Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk
Able Archer (NATO exercise)
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti
Abu Hamza (Mustafa Kamel Mustafa)
Abu Nidal Organization
Abu Qatada (Omar Mahmoud Othman)
Abu Zubaydah
Adams, Gerry
Adams, Gerry Snr
Adams family
Adebolajo, Michael
Afghan Analysts Network
Afghanistan
1980s Afghan War
Bagram airbase
bin Laden in
Britain’s First Afghan War
CIA bases in
CIA covert war against the Soviets
Crooke in
National Directorate of Security (NDS)
and NATO
Pashto language
and the SIS
Soviets in
training camps
see also Khost; Takhar; Taliban
Afridi, Shakil
Ahmed, Abdul Hafeez
Akhtar, Saeed
Akrotiri
Albania
and Operation Valuable
Alec Station
Algeria
Civil War
war of independence
Algiers bombing
Ali, Rafqat
Allen, Mark
Alshishani, Asadullah
Alwan, Rafid Ahmed (Curveball)
Amanullah, Zabet
misidentified as Amin (Aalem)
Ames, Aldrich
Amin, Mohamed see Aalem, Mohamed
Amman
Anderson, Garry
Andrew, Christopher
Angleton, James
Al-Ansar
Antoniades, Andrew/Andreas (Keravnos)
code name Mario
Antoniades, Fahim
Antoniades, Hafiza
AQAP see al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade
Arab–Israeli conflict
Arab Spring
Arafat, Yasser
Archangel
Arghawan, Afghan driver
Armed Islamic Group see GIA
Asim (Agent F1)
al-Assad, Bashar
Associated Press
atomic bomb
see also nuclear capabilities/conflict
Atta, Mohamed
Awlaki, Anwar
Baader-Meinhof
Baer, Robert
Baginski, Maureen
Bagram airbase
Baker, Nick
al-Balawi, Defne
al-Balawi, Humam (aka Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani)
code name Agent Panzer
code name Wolf
al-Balawi, Leyla
al-Balawi, Lina
Baldwin, Stanley
epigraph
Baquero, Antonio
Barcelona terrorist plot
Barot, Dhiren
Bearden, Milton
The Main Enemy (with James Risen)
Beirut
Belfast
Belgium
Bell, Gertrude
Bergdahl, Bowe
Bergen, Peter
Berlin Wall
Berzin, E. P.
Bethe, Hans
Bethlehem
betrayal/treachery
conflation of intelligence with betrayal
motivations
triple agents
see also double agents
Bettany, Michael
Bhutto, Benazir
bin Laden, Osama
and al-Balawi
and Black Hawk Down
and the CIA
killing of
bin Zeid al-Aoun, Sharif Ali (aka Abu Zeid)
bin Ziyad, Tariq
Black, Cofer
blackmail
Blair, Tony
Blunt, Anthony
BND see Bundesnachrichtendienst
Bolsheviks
Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir
Bosnian War
Bowden, Mark
Black Hawk Down
Boyce, Ernest
Brandt, Willy
Brennan, John
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of
British Army
in Northern Ireland
Brown, Harold
Buikis, Jan
Bulger, James ‘Whitey’
Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
and Curveball
Burnes, Sir Alexander
Bush, George W.
Cambridge Five
Cameron, David
Camp Chapman
Camp Peary
Campbell, Alastair
Caprioli, Louis
Carlile, Lord Alex
Carlin, Willie
Castro, Fidel
CEDC see Chemical Engineering and Design Centre
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
and 9/11
and Afridi
and Antoniades
and al-Balawi (Humam)
bases in Afghanistan
bases in Iraq
and bin Laden
Camp Chapman
Camp Peary
and Castro
clandestine service
counterterrorism
Counterterrorism Center
and crime-fighting
and Curveball
damage to US reputation
Directorate of Operations
embassy work
expansion
‘fake vaccine’ programme
and Germany
killing of officers and agents
Langley HQ
and the Mafia
militarization of
and myth
Operation Valuable
origin
and Pakistan
and paranoia
as president’s tool
and al-Qaeda
and the quality of technical intelligence
recruitment of spies
rendition operations
and the Soviet Union
spreading of resources
and the spymaster’s role
stealing of military secrets
and Storm
and terrorism
torture employed by
see also Cold War; drone aircraft/warfare
Chechnya
Cheema, Mohamed Imran
Cheka
see also KGB; NKVD
Chemical Engineering and Design Centre (CEDC), Baghdad
Cheney, Dick
Chilcot Inquiry
China
Churchill, Winston
CIA see Central Intelligence Agency
clandestine action
Clark, Kate
Clarke, Liam
Clarke, Richard
Clarridge, Duane ‘Dewey’
Clinton, Bill
Colby, William
Cold War
espionage
paranoia
political agent lack in superpower confrontation
Coll, Steve
Collins, John
Conflicts Forum
Conolly, Arthur
Cook, Andrew
Cook Report
Corera, Gordon
Corlette, John C.
corroboration of intelligence
Cory, Peter
counterterrorism
action overriding intelligence
CIA
Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams (CPTs)
Global War on Terror
and the killing of bin Laden
MI5
and the necessity of spying
penetration of terrorist groups
steering of terrorist careers
UK intelligence-gathering units
see also Central Intelligence Agency; drone aircraft/warfare; human intelligence; IRA; Northern Ireland; surveillance; t
errorism: Islamist
covert action
definition
covert diplomacy
crime-fighting see ‘intelligence-led policing’
Cromie, Francis
Crooke, Alastair Warren
and Conflicts Forum
and the IRA
and Palestine
Crooke, Frederick Montague Warren
Crooke, Ian
Crooke, Sir Thomas
Crooke, William
Crumpton, Hank
Cumming see Smith-Cumming, Mansfield
Curveball (Rafid Ahmed Alwan)
Customs & Excise (HMCE)
Cyprus
EOKA
Cyprus Mail
Daily Telegraph
Daniel (MI5 handler)
Danish intelligence service (PET)
Daoud, Abdullah
Darunta camp
Daud, Mohamed
de Silva, Sir Desmond
Dearlove, Sir Richard
Death Star, Balad
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Deutsche Revue
Devine, Jack
DGSE see Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure
DIA see Defense Intelligence Agency
Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST)
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE)
Djerf al-Nadaf
Dobson, George
Donovan, ‘Wild Bill’
double agents
Humam see al-Balawi, Humam
mistaken identity as a double agent
see also Philby, Kim; Steak Knife
Drogin, Bob
drone aircraft/warfare
drugs
heroin
War on Drugs
Drumheller, Tyler
DST see Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire
Duddy, Brendan
Dukes, Sir Paul
Dzerzhinsky, ‘Iron Felix’
Eckhart (code name of Stasi agent)
Economist, The
Egypt
Egyptian Embassy bombing, Islamabad
Einstein, Albert
electronic jamming devices
Enemy of the State
EOKA
espionage
atomic
changing face of
clandestine action
credibility
and crime-fighting
and defence mechanisms
and discreet diplomacy
and friendship
fusion cells
getting inside the enemy’s mind
and globalization
the Great Game
and invasion of privacy
and Iraq’s WMD intelligence
judging when spies are effective
limitations and weaknesses
and misidentification
misuse of spies