[…] furthered by the provision of money from time to time).’ (6) In the mid-fifties, according to Chester Cooper, the Labour Party ‘was virtually ignored by the American Embassy during the tenure of Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich.’ But he adds a rider: ‘A few of us, however, tried to provide key Labour Party members with some […]
[…] WAS MADE IN CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND TO THE SENIOR REPORTER OF THE CAMBRIDGE NEWS RPT CAMBRIDGE NEWS. THE CALLER SAID ONLY THAT THE REPORTER SHOULD CALL THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON FOR SOME BIG NEWS AND THEN RANG OFF. LAST NIGHT AFTER WORD OF THE PRESIDENT’S DEATH WAS RECEIVED THE REPORTER INFORMED THE CAMBRIDGE POLICE […]
Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that […]
[…] the research by Giles Scott-Smith on the US State Department’s funding of a big freebie trip to the US for Mrs Thatcher in 1967, after the US embassy in London had spotted her as a possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the Net. His ‘Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, […]
[…] people. Hundreds, maybe thousands, no-one has yet assembled the data of British trade union officials and MPs that had these freebies. The State Department, via the London embassy, was sending back masses of reports. The idea that this was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced […]
[…] to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the London embassy who liaised with the Tory Party, and was sent on a six week freebie in 1967 c/o the State Department’s International Visitor Program. While there she […]
[…] (sic) of current repressive efforts targeted against the PKI. ’ That ‘burden’ is a reference to the killing of between 100,000 and 1 million people, though the embassy in Indonesia was uncertain about the numbers. In a message of 15 April 1966 to Washington, the embassy acknowledged: ‘We frankly do not know whether the […]
[…] one of the standard KGB tactics of the period: send a good-looking man romancing among the political lower orders. The KGB man, under cover at the Soviet embassy, bought her lunch, then he bought her lunch again and asked her to get some documents for him, Labour Party policy documents, the kind that would […]
[…] to the Chief of the U.S. Advisory Group in Korea at different times between 1953 and 1961, and was assistant military attache at the Washington D.C. ROK embassy from 1961 to 1964, where he functioned as liaison between the KCIA and the U.S. intelligence agencies. (71) In this latter capacity, he served as one […]
[…] to achieve his final official intelligence posting, when, after the liberation of France, and after being transferred from SOE to MI6, he was posted to the British Embassy in Paris. Ambassador Duff Cooper had requested this because he regarded Ayer as a ‘first-class political observer’. Ayer was vague as to what his specific duties […]
