Alistair Horne

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Sir Alistair Horne is a British historian and biographer. In 2013, he confirmed to the BBC that he had run three agents for MI6 while working for the Daily Telegraph in Germany in the 1950s, and that the paper's editor, Roy Pawley, had been aware of his role.[1][2]

Notes

  1. Jeremy Duns, The 'secret agents' of the UK press, BBC News, 3 March 2013.
  2. Paul Lashmar, Spies and Fleet Street: BBC Radio 4's 'The MI6 and the Media' reviewed, SpinWatch, 7 March 2013.