Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Nigel West ~ Bruce Nigel…

Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, eds., TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 363 pp., index.

In their 1999 book, Crown Jewels, Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev discussed a variety of KGB operations based on material from the KGB archives, some provided originally by the Cambridge Five.12 The appendix reproduced some documents furnished by Blunt and Philby. The present volume reproduces still more material they provided.

The Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf — Central Intelligence Agency

…I smoked Cambridge cigarettes…I purchased a pocket protector for pencils around the time I was smoking these cigarettes.