Chapman Pincher

Pincher, Chapman. "Bugs in the Banquette." Spectator, 22 Aug. 1998, 14-15.

The author claims to have been learned that the banquettes at one of his favorite restaurants for meeting his sources had been bugged by both MI5 and the KGB.

[UK/Postwar]

Pincher, Chapman. The Secret Offensive: Active Measures, Deception, Disinformation, Subversion, Terrorism, Sabotage, and Assassination. New York: St. Martin's, 1986. [Wilcox]

[Russia/D&D]

Pincher, Chapman.

1. Their Trade Is Treachery. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981.

For Cram, Pincher's book is a "detailed exposition of the case against [Roger] Hollis and Graham Mitchell." It is an "example of 'mole mania.'" Angleton pointed Pincher toward the story, but the information came from Peter Wright. Rocca and Dziak comment that although some critics "maintain that he is careless with data, Pincher sheds light on such past activities as Soviet strategic deception operations during World War II ... and KGB defector Golitsyn's revelations."

Constantinides notes that, although he never gives them, Pincher clearly "had access to sources with highly privileged information." The book contains "a wealth of information," some of which must await further authoritative disclosures before it can be evaluated.

2.. Too Secret Too Long. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. New York: St. Martin's 1984.

Rocca and Dziak find that "Pincher makes a massive effort to demonstrate that ... Sir Roger Hollis[] was a Soviet 'mole'.... Pincher's evidence is incomplete and fractious.... Notwithstanding the controversy, the work surfaces numerous operations, cases and details ... never before or rarely aired in published literature."

[UK/SpyCases/Debate]

Pincher, Chapman. Traitors: The Labyrinths of Treason. Loon: Sidgwick, 1987.

Wilcox: "Why people become traitors, spies. Motives, psychology, ideology."

[SpyCases/Treason/Gen]

Pincher, Chapman. A Web of Deception: The Spycatcher Affair. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987. The Spycatcher Affair. New York: St. Martin's, 1988.

Cram: This book is "required reading to understand the hodgepodge of events that led to the trial." But Pincher's "transparent effort to put his literary activities in the best light and to exonerate himself from association with illegal and shady dealings does not succeed."

[UK/Postwar/Spycatcher]

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