BBC. "The Cambridge Spy Ring." 10 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk] BBC. "The Cambridge Spy Ring." 10 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
Reviews careers and treachery of the Cambridge Five.
[UK/SpyCases/Five]
BBC. "E-Mail Death Threats for Ex-Spy." 14 May 1999.
[http://news.bbc.co.uk]
"Former MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson has told the BBC that he has received death threats by e-mail for allegedly publishing the names of MI6 agents on a US-based Website.... Mr Tomlinson strongly ... denies posting the names of 116 agents on the Internet.... On Friday, the Sun newspaper published his e-mail address, calling him a traitor and urging readers to contact him."
[UK/PostCW/90s/Tomlinson]
BBC. "Ex-Spy Chief to Publish Memoirs." 7 Jul. 2001. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
"Dame Stella Rimington has been given the go-ahead to become the first British spymaster to release a book about their experiences. The former head of MI5's book, Open Secret, will be published in September.... Ministers dropped their opposition to publication after she agreed to scrap a number of passages, and change others, on the grounds of national security, according to the Home Office."
[UK/PostCW/00]
BBC. "Fearsome Stasi Held Nation in Its Grip." 18 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
"The Stasi earned a frightening reputation for thoroughness as East Germany's secret police. At its height it employed 85,000 full-time officers, had records on five million East German citizens -- one third of the entire population -- and had several hundred thousand informers....
"One of the abiding images of German reunification is Germans ransacking the Stasi buildings in a bid to remove all traces of the hated secret police's records. However many files were left intact and allegedly among them, were those on Hull University lecturer, Dr Robin Pearson."
[Germany/East; UK/SpyCases/Fever]
BBC.
1. "Former MPs Named as Spies." 13 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
Two former Labor Party Members of Parliament, "Tom Driberg and Raymond Fletcher, who are both now dead, were listed as KGB agents in the files smuggled to the UK by former Soviet agent Vasili Mitrokhin." According to Cambridge academic Christopher Andrew, Driberg was codenamed "Lepage," while Fletcher was codenamed "Peter."
2. "Idealist Who Sold out His Homeland." 13 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
Vasili Mitrokhin, now 77 years old, "is a dedicated idealist, determined to bring to light his view of his homeland's failed experiment with communism."
3. "Jack Straw: Met MI5 Boss after Spy Revelations." 13 Sep. 1999. [http://news. bbc.co.uk]
Home Secretary Jack Straw released a statement on 13 September 1999 after a meeting with MI5 head Stephen Lander. He "said he was informed last year of the existence of Mrs [Melita] Norwood, who spied for the Soviets for more than 40 years."
[UK/SpyCases/Fever]
BBC.
1. "Grandmother: I Was Right to Spy." 11 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
"An 87-year-old great-grandmother unmasked as the KGB's longest serving spy in Britain has defiantly defended her actions.... Speaking outside her home in Bexleyheath, south-east London, lifelong communist Mrs [Melita] Norwood said ... she thought some of the information she had access to 'might be useful in helping Russia keep abreast of Britain, America and Germany'....
"The BBC has discovered that the British security services have known of Mrs Norwood's activities since 1992. But the Home Office has denied that a decision has already been taken by Mr [Jack] Straw not to prosecute or interview her because of her age....
"Mrs Norwood's extraordinary story was uncovered by a team working on the forthcoming BBC documentary The Spying Game... [which] will be broadcast on BBC Two at 2000 BST on Sunday, 19 September. It will include an exclusive interview with KGB defector, Vasili Mitrokhin."
2. "Q&A: A Spy Revealed: Melita Norwood Believed Communism Gave Hope to Millions." 11 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
Exchange with Cambridge academic Christopher Andrew on how Melita Norwood "became one of the KGB's most highly rated spies."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
BBC. "I Regret Nothing, Says Stasi Spy." 20 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
Vic Allen, a former leading member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) who has been named as spy for the East German Stasi, told BBC Two's "The Spying Game" that "he had 'no regrets'" over his actions. Allen "said he did pass on information about CND's activities. But he said he considered that perfectly legitimate because he belonged to a pro-Soviet, pro-East German faction of the group."
[UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
BBC. "MI5's Mystery Man." 14 Sep. 1999. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
"So much for MI5's much-vaunted bid to be more open. Try digging around for information on Stephen Lander, the director-general of the Security Service, and there is precious little you will find."
[UK/PostCW/99; UK/SpyCases/99/Fever]
BBC. "Papers Ponder IRA Spy's Future." 12 May 2003. [http://news.bbc.co.uk]
[UK/PostCW/03/IRASpy]
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