by Stephen Grey
see also Cheka; Cold War; KGB; Red Army; Russia
Spain
Barcelona metro plot
and France
Guardia Civil
Madrid bombings
National Intelligence Centre
Unidad Especial de Intervención
Special Air Service (SAS)
Special Boat Service (SBS)
Special Branch, RUC
Special Branch, Scotland Yard
Special Demonstration Squad, Metropolitan Police (SDS)
Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Spilia
Sprogis, Jan
spying see espionage
Stalin, Joseph
Starzheskaya, Olga
Stasi
Steak Knife (code name of agent)
Steckelmann, Colonel
Stern Gang
Stevens, Sir John (later Lord)
Stevens Inquiry, third (2003)
Storer, Cindy
Storm, Morten
Storm, Osama
Straw, Jack, signature in capitals in name of
suicide attacks/bombers
Sun Tzu
epigraph
Sunday Times
Sunni Islamists
see also al-Qaeda
surveillance
and information overload
technology
‘The Unblinking Eye’
video
SWAPO
Syria
Tabbakh, Hassan (aka Omar)
Tablighi Jamaat
Takhar
air strike
Taliban
Haqqani faction
intelligence and the war against
Shura Ittihad ul-Mujahideen
and the Takhar air strike
TTP
Taqwa, Abdul Jabbar
Tariq bin Ziyad mosque, Barcelona
technology
and intelligence
surveillance
see also drone aircraft/warfare
Temple Mount, Jerusalem
Tenet, George
terrorism
9/11 attacks
Algiers bombing
Amman hotel attacks
Barcelona metro plot
Beirut bombing of US Embassy
and the CIA
Egyptian Embassy bombing, Islamabad
global insurgency of
Hamas attacks on Jews
Islamist
Madrid bombings
and the necessity of spying
Northern Ireland
Orly Airport bomb
and the Palestinian conflict
Paris attacks during the 1990s
Red Terror
by separatist groups in France
US watchlist, ‘Tide’
see also counterterrorism; IRA; suicide attacks/bombers
Terrorism Act (2000)
Thatcher, Margaret
Thunderbolt see Antoniades, Andrew/Andreas
Thwaites, Norman
Times, The
Tolkachev, Adolf
Topaz, Agent (Rainer Rupp)
Tora Bora, Battle of
torture
waterboarding
treachery see betrayal/treachery
Trigon (Aleksandr Ogorodnik)
triple agents
Troubles, Irish
TTP (Pakistan Taliban)
Tugendhat, Justice
Tunisia
Turner, Stansfield
UDA see Ulster Defence Association
Ulster
RUC see Royal Ulster Constabulary
Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Undine
Unidad Especial de Intervención (Spain’s Special Intervention Unit)
UNSCOM
Updike, John
Uritsky, Moisei
Vanguards of Khorasan
Vengeur, Le
verification of intelligence
Vienna Conventions
Vietnam War
Volkov, Konstantin
War on Terror
Warrick, Joby
Washington Post
waterboarding
Waters, T. J.
Waziristan
Weiner, Tim: The Legacy of Ashes
White Army
Wilsey, John
Wise, Jeremy
WMD Commission
Wolf, Markus
Woolsey, James
Xe Services
Yakovidis, Chris
Yassin, Ahmed
Yemen
Yousef, Ramzi
al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
Zazi, Najibullah
Zero Dark Thirty
Zeroual, Liamine
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad
Zigzag, Agent
Zirndorf camp
Zog I of Albania
Captain Francis Cromie, thirty-six, was killed at the British Embassy in wartime Petrograd on 31 August 1918 by revolutionary militia amid Bolshevik claims of a coup plot by British intelligence.
Sidney Reilly – the so-called ‘ace of spies’ – was posted by Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to Russia, where he unsuccessfully plotted to overthrow the Bolsheviks.
Soviet agent Kim Philby joined SIS in August 1940 and came to be chief of anti-Soviet operations. His treachery remains a low point in the agency’s history. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Milton Bearden (centre), pictured with Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet army. He ran CIA operations from Pakistan against the Soviet army in Afghanistan. He later became the CIA’s chief of global anti-Soviet operations. Above right: Bearden today. (Photos: courtesy of Milton Bearden.)
Freddie Scappaticci, the Belfast-born son of an Italian immigrant, was identified by press reports as Steak Knife, Britain’s best agent in the Provisional IRA. He denies the claim. (Photo: courtesy of Kelvin Boyes.)
Stanley Hollowday, a British engineer, pictured on his wedding day with his wife, Zanina. Antoniades was ordered to shoot him.
Andrew (or Andreas) Antoniades became an informer for British intelligence for more than four decades after joining EOKA rebels in Cyprus.
Antoniades pictured in Tunisia in 2012 while wanted for questioning by British police. His work for British customs was now over. (Photo: Stephen Grey.)
After returning to the UK, Antoniades was jailed for a drive-by shooting at the Beirut Café in Camden, north London. (Photo: court files.)
Sir Richard Dearlove was the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service. He defends his role in preparing an intelligence case for invading Iraq.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell makes the case for invasion at the United Nations. He based parts of his speech on intelligence from Curveball.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi, was exposed as the agent known as Curveball – the man who provided key intelligence on biological weapons used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (Photo: Gustavo Alabiso.)
Above: Zabet Amanullah out election campaigning before he was killed in a US air strike. He was said by US intelligence to have a secret life as a Taliban commander. Right: a copy of Amanullah’s passport.
Amanullah was well known to many Westerners. Former UN official Michael Semple (above) was friends with him; he had his phone number stored on his phone – the same number that US intelligence tracked to kill him. Semple proved Amanullah was no double-agent.
Asim (top left), a Pakistani agent for French intelligence, infiltrated the Tariq bin Ziyad mosque in Barcelona, Spain (top right). He testified that he discovered a plot to bomb the city’s metro (bottom) and led to the jailing of eleven alleged terrorists. (Photos: Stephen Grey.)
Danish convert Morten Storm became an agent for Danish intelligence, the CIA and MI5. He helped the CIA track and assassinate Yemeni-American preacher Anwar Awlaki in 2011, in both Britain and in the Yemen.
The military log that recorded the attack at Camp Chapman. OGA was the military term for the CIA. (Source: Wikileaks.)
The
two faces of Humam al-Balawi: as a Palestinian doctor (left) and as militant extremist Abu Dujanah al-Khorasani (right), preparing for an attack against the CIA. (Photo: Jihadi video.)
Former SIS officer Alastair Crooke specialized in secret peacemaking with violent groups. (Photo: conflicts forum.)
Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin opened a dialogue with Crooke before Yassin was killed by the Israelis. (Photo: Reuters – Mohammad Salem.)
Two faces of the modern CIA. In 2011 agent Shakil Afridi (left) was recruited to visit Osama bin Laden’s compound with a fake offer to vaccinate children; in Moscow, CIA officer Ryan Christopher Fogle (right) was arrested by Russian officers in 2013 on his way to recruit an agent. (Photos: Getty Images and Russia Handout.)
Fogle was caught with a toolkit for spying that included wigs, sunglasses, a compass, a Bic lighter, a Moscow atlas, $100,000 in euros and a metal shield for credit cards.
In 2006 Britain’s SIS was accused by the Russians of using this fake rock to hide electronic equipment for communicating with its agents in Moscow.
About the Author
Stephen Grey, author of Ghost Plane, is an award-winning investigative journalist who has contributed to The New York Times, 60 Minutes, ABC News, CNN, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, the BBC and other publications. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Glossary
Timeline of Major Events
Author’s Note
Introduction: The Exploding Spy
PART ONE: THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE (1909–89)
1. The Secret Agent
2. The Best-Ever Liars
3. Friendship
PART TWO: NEW SPIES (1989–2008)
4. Thunderbolt
5. Jihad
6. Caveat Emptor
PART THREE: THE FLOCK OF BIRDS (2008–13)
7. Cover Blown
8. Allah Has Plans
9. Faith in the Machine
10. The Peacemaker Spy
11. Vaccination
PART FOUR: WHERE NEXT?
12. The Good Spy
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Photographs
About the Author
Copyright
THE NEW SPYMASTERS. Copyright © 2015 by Stephen Grey. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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First published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
First U.S. Edition: July 2015
eISBN 9781466867130
First eBook edition: June 2015