Phillip Knightley

Phillip Knightley’s most recent book is The Second Oldest Profession, a history of intelligence agencies.

Letter

Disinformation

8 July 1993

Phillip Knightley writes: I did not dismiss Mr Costello’s book as ‘disinformation’. The heading was put on the piece by the LRB and there is more than one way of thinking about its meaning. I did, however, say that there had to be something in this publishing venture for the KGB. Mr Costello himself is well aware of this because he says that his former CIA contacts warned him ‘that the KGB...

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