Christopher Andrew

Christopher Andrew    ( academic,  court historian)
Born	Christopher Maurice Andrew 23 July 1941
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)
Interests	MI5
Court historian of MI5

Christopher Andrew, Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University, is the Official Historian of MI5.

MI5 and Jeremy Corbyn

In a wide-ranging interview by journalist and fellow historian, Simon Heffer, Professor Christopher Andrew was asked whether he thought MI5 and MI6 would be reluctant to tell Jeremy Corbyn, should he become prime minister, all he ought to know. Professor Andrew replied:

“I simply think that however unfortunate it is, the constitution has it that if the prime minister wishes to be informed, the prime minister is informed. One question is how far Corbyn would wish to be informed. It doesn’t seem a subject that engages his attention. There are some people in the shadow cabinet who have called for the closing-down of MI5.”

But would the Americans share sensitive intelligence under a Corbyn administration?

“I can’t imagine the special relationship being the same. But it would be part of a broader problem. Does he believe in NATO? So it’s the whole of Western defence, and not just the intelligence angle of it, that would be the problem. Nothing I have heard him say gives me any confidence – whether about his understanding of the Cold War, or of Venezuela. It is a deeply eccentric view of international relations.”

Mark Lane

Mark Lane commented that

“Andrew has offered himself as an objective historian, author, and host of television programs. He has neglected to state that he is a much-prized asset of the CIA. Andrew lectures for the CIA, and makes a living writing books for the CIA that are favorable to the CIA and are featured and promoted on the CIA’s official website, cia.gov. He also is paid to write reviews denouncing books that are critical of the CIA. While he proclaims that he is a historian, he appears primarily to be a CIA transmission belt; he obtains information from his associates in the intelligence communities and passes it along to an unsuspecting public as the result of his own research.”
Mark Lane Last Word - My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK

 

A Publication by Christopher Andrew

Title	Publication type	Publication date	Description
Mitrokhin Archive	intelligence leak, forgery?	1992	A vast number of handwritten notes allegedly smuggled out of KGB archives by defector Vasili Mitrokhin, but possibly a British intelligence disinformation operation.

 

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