Tag Archives: MI6

Ruth Morton and British Intelligence in the Falklands War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 December 2025

An article appeared today about an interview given by Ruth Morton, an Uruguayan woman of British descent in her late 90s, who says she worked for British intelligence during the Falklands War. Morton, whose family had served the British war effort in the 1940s, says that she was involved in spying on the Argentine submarine base at Mar del Plata, on the coast of north-eastern Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, adjacent to the border with Uruguay. A translation of the article is given below.

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Should Syria’s New Rulers Be on the Terrorism List?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 December 2024

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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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The Petrov Affair: Soviet Spies and Australian Reaction in the Early Cold War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 8 April 2024

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The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

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The Soviet Capture of Australia’s Intelligence System

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2023

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British MP, Soviet Spy: Tom Driberg

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2023

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“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading

Britain Won the Spy War with the Irish Republican Army

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2022

An IRA parade in Belfast || Image source

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