[…] having flown ahead. One of the first people she met in London, around April 1961, was Stephen Ward, who invited her to a reception at the Soviet Embassy. Ward pestered her daily to meet the Soviet diplomat Eugene Ivanov, but she refused. She had had enough problems in New York, and a solicitor friend […]
[…] photocopies of telegrams indicating that the US Ambassador to Italy had worked out a plan to link the Bulgarians to the shooting of the Pope. The US embassy says they’re fakes. It certainly sounds implausible that anything so sensitive would be transmitted by telegram. But then Reagan has appointed a lot of dummies as […]
[…] Carter had no idea what he was suggesting. Project Pandora The U.S. government woke up to the reality of psychotronics when from 1960 to 1965 the American Embassy in Moscow was targeted by a mixture of electromagnetic and microwaves causing a wide range of physical and mental illness among U.S. personel serving there, including […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] Gennadyevich Pokrovskiy (later expelled from Britain), who called himself ‘George’. My arrest was linked to the defection of Oshchenko, who was a KGB Colonel at the Russian Embassy in Paris between 1985 and 1992 before he came to Britain. The Prosecution claimed I was recruited to the KGB by Oshchenko in the mid-1970s, when […]
[…] knew him. Lady Hulse 7 Culross St., London W1 Lady Hulse still lives in Culros Street, Mayfair, in a very fine mews house, immediately behind the American Embassy. She could not recall every meeting Clay Shaw or hearing the name, and neither could her house-keeper/companion who has been with her for fifty years. As […]
Ed. Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox i.e. secret diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
[…] COUNSELLOR BONN. NOW ENGAGED IN LEGAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND SDP/ALLIANCE POLITICAL WORK. BARNES, RICHARD CUMBERLAND B 19.7.12 PEMBROKE COLL OXFORD MI6(C) 1940 HM FORCES 1946 SECONDED TO EMBASSY ATHENS 1947 TRANSFERRED TO UK DELEGATION TO UNSCOB 1948 1ST SEC (LOCAL) ATHENS 1950 FO 1953 STUDENT NATO DEFENCE COLL PARIS 1ST SEC UK DELEGATION UN […]
[…] the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and how manipulative the Israeli Embassy can be. But even Labour Friends of Israel is no AIPAC. Nearly all the Old Labour Right in the Party were pro-Israel, pro-nuclear armament, pro-EU and […]
