It all started 30 years ago. A trip from Macau to Hong Kong allowed me to find the memoirs of Peter Wright, a book which at the time was banned in the United Kingdom but…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of 007, worked as a Naval Intelligence Officer at the NID, the Naval Department directed by Admiral John Henry Godfrey. In 1941, both were in Lisbon, travelling to America. Ian Fleming was…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
First issue of the magazine "Mundo Gráfico” , from October 1940, directed by Artur Portela. The cover has a photo of Premier Salazar and President Carmona during the Autumn military manoeuvres, Portugal under the menace…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
I wrote here about the biography of Peter Ustinov's father, Ivan , written by Peter Day. Compared with what I knew from other sources, the author goes further in claiming that "Klop" was sent to Lisbon…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
In her book of memoirs, published in 1972, which I just read, Maria von Heimburg Mannes tells us that she was in Lisbon during WW2 for intelligence gathering purposes, on behalf of the Counter-Intelligence Dept.…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
Born in Wolverhampton (UK) in 1909; recruited to MI6 in 1937; worked in PCO in Vienna, later in Riga . From 1941 to 1944, he served in Madrid as head of counterespionage . There he…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
Orson Welles in Carol Reed’s THE THIRD MAN (1949). Courtesy: Rialto Pictures / Studiocanal Harold Russel "Kim" Philby worked with Graham Greene in Section V of MI6 . Graham Greene wrote The Third Man, published in 1950. In order to…
José António BarreirosAugust 19, 2019
British and Axis propaganda existed side by side during WW2. Both were trying to win the hearts of the Portuguese people. People in the streets were eager to be informed about the progress of the…
José António BarreirosAugust 18, 2019