The New Spymasters (58 page)

White Army

Wilsey, John

Wise, Jeremy

WMD Commission

Wolf, Markus

Woolsey, James

Xe Services

Yakovidis, Chris

Yassin, Ahmed

Yemen

Yousef, Ramzi

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

al-Zawahiri, Ayman

Zazi, Najibullah

Zero Dark Thirty

Zeroual, Liamine

Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad

Zigzag, Agent

Zirndorf camp

Zog I of Albania

Captain Francis Cromie, thirty-six, was killed at the British Embassy in wartime Petrograd on 31 August 1918 by revolutionary militia amid Bolshevik claims of a coup plot by British intelligence.

Sidney Reilly – the so-called ‘ace of spies' – was posted by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to Russia, where he unsuccessfully plotted to overthrow the Bolsheviks.

Soviet agent Kim Philby joined SIS in August 1940 and came to be chief of anti-Soviet operations. His treachery remains a low point in the agency's history. (Photo: Getty Images.)

Milton Bearden (
centre
), pictured with Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet army. He ran CIA operations from Pakistan against the Soviet army in Afghanistan. He later became the CIA's chief of global anti-Soviet operations.
Above right:
Bearden today. (Photos: courtesy of Milton Bearden.)

Freddie Scappaticci, the Belfast-born son of an Italian immigrant, was identified by press reports as Steak Knife, Britain's best agent in the Provisional IRA. He denies the claim. (Photo: courtesy of Kelvin Boyes.)

Stanley Hollowday, a British engineer, pictured on his wedding day with his wife, Zanina. Antoniades was ordered to shoot him.

Andrew (or Andreas) Antoniades became an informer for British intelligence for more than four decades after joining EOKA rebels in Cyprus.

Antoniades pictured in Tunisia in 2012 while wanted for questioning by British police. His work for British customs was now over. (Photo: Stephen Grey.)

After returning to the UK, Antoniades was jailed for a drive-by shooting at the Beirut Café in Camden, north London. (Photo: court files.)

Sir Richard Dearlove was the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service. He defends his role in preparing an intelligence case for invading Iraq.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell makes the case for invasion at the United Nations. He based parts of his speech on intelligence from Curveball.