25-07-2009, 02:24 PM
Jan, et al,
From the July 10, 1994 New York Times comes "Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia," by Ron Rosenbaum:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/magazi...anoia.html
Just a taste:
"But then, in 1991, as Greene lay dying of a blood disease in a Swiss hospital, a letter [threw all] into question. It suggested Philby had a wild card up his sleeve he'd never disclosed.
"The provocative new take on the ambiguity-riddled Philby question came in the form of a letter from Greene's biographer Norman Sherry, who'd been researching Greene's Secret Service connections. Pursuant to that, Sherry had been conferring in Washington with Anthony Cave Brown, the espionage historian then researching a forthcoming Kim Philby biography. Cave Brown was the intrepid spy sleuth who'd first revealed (in Bodyguard of Lies) the details of the elaborate D-Day deception strategy -- the way the Allies used the 'double cross system' to blind Hitler to the truth about the Normandy landing.
"Cave Brown had put forth a startling proposition to Greene's biographer: that Kim Philby might have been part of an even more complex deception operation than anyone had imagined -- a double double-cross." [emphasis added]
Keep this in mind: Even a "double double-cross" operation relating to the Cambridge spies pales in complexity and significance to the "Treasonous Cabal" hypothesis.
So back to Blunt: Two points must be considered:
1. Given the chain of custody of his memoir over the years, we have every reason to assume that the papers have been altered by those with the most to hide/gain.
2. Current mainstream speculations regarding the odd protection from on-high that spared Blunt from the gibbet may be on-target. In any event, they are so startling -- and therefore so satisfying to the conspiracy-minded among us -- that they in effect flood the intellectual and emotional systems and deflect our attention from the search for additional, far deeper and more troubling explanations.
We are being fed Blunt the way we were fed post-Cold War KGB and Stasi "revelations."
From the July 10, 1994 New York Times comes "Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia," by Ron Rosenbaum:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/magazi...anoia.html
Just a taste:
"But then, in 1991, as Greene lay dying of a blood disease in a Swiss hospital, a letter [threw all] into question. It suggested Philby had a wild card up his sleeve he'd never disclosed.
"The provocative new take on the ambiguity-riddled Philby question came in the form of a letter from Greene's biographer Norman Sherry, who'd been researching Greene's Secret Service connections. Pursuant to that, Sherry had been conferring in Washington with Anthony Cave Brown, the espionage historian then researching a forthcoming Kim Philby biography. Cave Brown was the intrepid spy sleuth who'd first revealed (in Bodyguard of Lies) the details of the elaborate D-Day deception strategy -- the way the Allies used the 'double cross system' to blind Hitler to the truth about the Normandy landing.
"Cave Brown had put forth a startling proposition to Greene's biographer: that Kim Philby might have been part of an even more complex deception operation than anyone had imagined -- a double double-cross." [emphasis added]
Keep this in mind: Even a "double double-cross" operation relating to the Cambridge spies pales in complexity and significance to the "Treasonous Cabal" hypothesis.
So back to Blunt: Two points must be considered:
1. Given the chain of custody of his memoir over the years, we have every reason to assume that the papers have been altered by those with the most to hide/gain.
2. Current mainstream speculations regarding the odd protection from on-high that spared Blunt from the gibbet may be on-target. In any event, they are so startling -- and therefore so satisfying to the conspiracy-minded among us -- that they in effect flood the intellectual and emotional systems and deflect our attention from the search for additional, far deeper and more troubling explanations.
We are being fed Blunt the way we were fed post-Cold War KGB and Stasi "revelations."