Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge      (spook, journalist, author)
Born	Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge 24 March 1903 Sanderstead, Surrey, England
Died	14 November 1990 (Age 87) Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Selwyn College (Cambridge)
Religion	Roman Catholic
Member of	Königswinter/Speakers
British spooky journalist.  Spook  In office 1942 - 1945 Employer MI6 Preceded by Isaiah Berlin  Moscow Correspondent In office 1932 - 1934 Employer Manchester Guardian Exposed what became known as "Holodomor"

Malcolm Muggeridge was a British spook and journalist.

Career

Muggeridge began his journalistic career as Moscow correspondent for the Manchester Guardian and during the Second World War served in the British Secret Intelligence Services in Brussels, Lourenco Marques in Portuguese East Africa and Paris where he was assigned to watch the comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse.

Later he worked closely with the Information Research Department (IRD) and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter magazine. During the late 1940s he was the Daily Telegraph's Washington correspondent and became its deputy editor before a four-year stint (1953–1957) as editor of the satirical journal Punch.

“In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us.”
Malcolm Muggeridge (May 1966) 

His niece, as international president of the Malcolm Muggeridge Society, says he was reportedly nicknamed “The Pouncer” within the BBC.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Description
Congress for Cultural Freedom/Founding Conference	26 June 1950	29 June 1950	Founded the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The participants had a "a culpable incuriosity about funding" of the luxurious conference, which was later exposed as CIA money.

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