James Rusbridger
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James Rusbridger was a British author on international espionage during and after World War II.
He was born in Jamaica, son of Gordon Rusbridger an Army colonel, and died in Cornwall. His career started in the naval design office of Vickers Armstrong. Then he was salesman and managing director of a commodities firm specialising in sugar, and claimed to have been paid by the CIA to weaken the international market for Cuban sugar. He was an Eastern Europe courier for MI6 (or the British Secret Intelligence Service) from 1962, retiring in 1974.
His books mainly relate to World War II, but his letters and articles after retirement were critical of British and American agencies. He once told CA: I cast a jaundiced eye over the profligate work of agencies like Britain’s MI5 and MI6 and the CIA and NSA, which has earned me considerable unpopularity from the British government.
In his books he asserted that:
He was born in Jamaica, son of Gordon Rusbridger an Army colonel, and died in Cornwall. His career started in the naval design office of Vickers Armstrong. Then he was salesman and managing director of a commodities firm specialising in sugar, and claimed to have been paid by the CIA to weaken the international market for Cuban sugar. He was an Eastern Europe courier for MI6 (or the British Secret Intelligence Service) from 1962, retiring in 1974.
His books mainly relate to World War II, but his letters and articles after retirement were critical of British and American agencies. He once told CA: I cast a jaundiced eye over the profligate work of agencies like Britain’s MI5 and MI6 and the CIA and NSA, which has earned me considerable unpopularity from the British government.
In his books he asserted that:
- Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: Churchill concealed warnings about Pearl HarborPearl HarborPearl Harbor, known to Hawaiians as Puuloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet...
from Roosevelt in order to get America in the war. But In a 1991 interview on Japanese television his co-author Eric NaveEric NaveCaptain Eric Nave was a Navy Paymaster Commander and an Australian cryptographer, before and during World War II. He served in the Navy from 1917 to 1949. As a midshipman in the 1920s, he was required to learn a foreign language and chose Japanese: with French and German you got sixpence a day...
repudiated a large slice of what Rusbridger had written, calling it speculation. - Who Sank Surcouf: The French submarine Surcouf sank as the result of an accident; and had a confused, treacherous, incompetent and disloyal crew.