Death-bed confession of the spy who got away

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Times
By Michael Evans and Magnus Linklater



A SECRET death-bed confession from a publisher who served in military intelligence in the Second World War has exposed an extraordinary story of espionage and treachery.

James MacGibbon, who died four years ago, aged 88, admitted in a 12-page affidavit, kept secret until now, that he spied for the Russians while working in the War Office.

He will join a long list of spies who served two masters, notably Harold “Kim” Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. The full extent of his espionage emerged last week after MI5 agreed to a request by his family to release details of surveillance it had carried out on him after a tip-off in 1949.

Based in Washington and London, where he was involved in planning Operation Overlord, the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, MacGibbon was questioned by William Skardon, the legendary MI5 interrogator who uncovered Klaus Fuchs, the atom spy in 1950.
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General John Merriman - who died some 10 years ago in the US and whose funeral was attended by the Clintons, Yasser Arafat, John Major (as UK PM) and other world leaders of the time - once said that MacGibbon was the best counter-intelligence asset the UK even had during the Cold War years of the Thatcher/Reagan-Bush1 triumvirate era and that by seemingly ignoring his front of deception which led to the aversion of full scale nuclear war with the Sovient Union, US and UK special ops forces were able to smash nuclear bomb smuggling rings connected to BCCI asshole Abbas Gokal who was financing terrorism via Dubai offshore banks.

Merriman, for all those who remember him, had the extraordinary distinction of being made a Knight of the Order of the Garter although he eschewed using the title Sir during his lifetime. He also received the Congressional Medal of Honor twice, as well as the Soldier's Medal, the Grand Chevalier du Legion d'Honneur and the prestigeous Croix du Guerre, all fot his work in unmasking Cold War espionage units run by Stasi/KGB terror units.