n 1995, John Costello was a 53 year old investigative writer, who stumbled on and was about to publish a landmark book on one of the most explosive topics since W.W. II.

John had threatened to expose the Soviet spy rings at Oxford universities; this would rival the Cambridge homosexual/communist rings of Burgess Mc’Claine, Filby, Blunt etc etc.

Costello was a best selling author and historian, with book titles such as, “The K.G.B. secrets, the British government does not want you to read” and “The Pacific war“ which is regarded as perhaps the best written book on the subject. This was followed by “D-day”, “Jutland” and in 1977 “The battle of the Atlantic”, and “Deadly illusions”, co-written with a senior K.G.B. operative [Oleg Tsarev, editor's note].

His biggest success was “The Mask of Treachery”, which unearthed much information about the activities of Sir Anthony Blunt; from his contemporaries and fellow travellers, only a small portion of this was included.

John was fearless in approaching Soviet sources. He managed to successfully sort fact from fiction, which meant he would continually cross check with the U.S. freedom of information act, and intell operatives themselves, from such sources as the BBC, which had a policy of employing pro-soviets in the thirties, to the hard line Jews of Poland who were such a major factor in bringing Britain in to the war in 1939. Remember Poland was divided between Germany and Russia. They insured that while we used the invasion of Poland as an excuse for war, the Russians were allowed to take their half unhindered.

Ursula Kuczynski

John numbered among his informants, documents from a senior Rabbi from Krakow, superspies Oleg Tsarev and Ruth Werner, alias Ursula Kuczynski (codenamed Sonia), and info from Flora Solomons, who claimed, as did J Edgar Hoover, that the world Jewish underground supported the Soviet cause throughout W.W.II. 

After the collapse of the Berlin wall, many Soviet spies came clean to ingratiate themselves, and it was Ruth who confessed to servicing the Oxford spies for Russia in the thirties under the noses of the British; how Claus Fuch was allowed to take way armfuls of papers each day from the Atomic Energy Commissions Research Institute at Harwell, and of the separate American Jewish spy rings at Los Alamos, as confirmed by Alexander Shelepin. Ruth also told John of the secret bug in Harold Wilson’s black brogues that caused such panic in the mid sixties.

John Costello’s knowledge of Soviet penetrations and techniques could only have come from several people at the top of the intelligence world, on both sides. But on a tip from the Jewish underground, he questioned Ruth Werner.

Britain had cracked the secret German codes; we were reading everything, and John was asking that as we obviously knew about the Jews in the camps: Why were the wealthy Jewish banking syndicates that funded the war, remaining silent?

Remember Rothschild had the highest security clearance alongside Churchill. It was Rothschild who brought in “Regulation B”, which was immediate incarceration for anyone the banking cartels did not like, for the duration of the war, and was used to silence the outspoken chief of Naval Intelligence, Admiral Barry Domville, among others.

Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domvile
(1878-1971)

John Costello died after complaining of stomach pain after eating shellfish at a Spanish restaurant. 36 hours later while aboard a British Airways flight to Miami, he was found slumped in his seat, and immediately certified as dead.

Preliminary tests by the Dade county Florida medical examiner were inconclusive, and ordered extensive toxicology reports.