Former MP exposed as secret KGB informant
A former federal Labor MP has been uncovered as a secret KGB informant, according to newly-released Russian intelligence archives.
Albert James, the member for Hunter in NSW, was an active informer in the 1960s and 1970s under the not-very-secure codename "Albert" — although it has not been revealed what information Mr James may have passed to the Soviet Union, Fairfax Media reports.
His status as a KGB mole is documented in the papers of Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist and defector.
The Churchill College Archive in the United Kingdom released the papers last month.
Mr James, who served in Federal Parliament from 1960 to 1980, was known to be a strong critic of the Vietnam War and what he called "USA imperialism". He was also a supporter of Fidel Castro’s communist regime.
He died in 2006, aged 92.
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