[…] “As early as the spring of 1970 Akins’s Fuel and Energy Office put together the implications of reduced reserves of domestic natural gas and the success of Libya in negotiating better terms from the oil companies and began predicting a price for crude at the Persian Gulf of $4.50 by 1980. Three years later […]
[…] ALBERT NOEL BORN 11.12.36 UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM ATHENAEUM MI6 (PHILBY) 1960 TUTOR DURHAM UNIVERSITY 1961 ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT 1962 RESIDENT FELLOW JERUSALEM (JORDAN) 1965 LECTURER UNIVERSITY OF LIBYA 1966 FO 1967 2ND SEC KUWAIT 1969 1ST SEC FCO 1970 1ST SEC HEAD OF CHANCERY ADEN 1972 FCO 1973 AMMAN 1977 FCO 1981 1ST SEC […]
[…] “aimed to boost exports of steel and steel products to the Soviet Union.” (22) His recent expressions of outrage at the National Union of Mineworkers’ contacts with Libya should be viewed in this light. There is a lot more to say about MacGregor and his connections (23) but it seems clear from all this […]
[…] by frogmen who attached plastic explosives to the hull in a botched job by the BVD Dutch secret service. In January 1977 it sailed from Rotterdam for Libya……. The world’s intelligence community knew all about Edwin Bollier. The enduring question must be why his activities were tolerated.’ Harris, who now writes for Jane’s Intelligence […]
[…] have operated in Central America, Italy (in the rescue of James Dozier) and in Africa, with a country “which doesn’t have diplomatic relations with the US”. ( Libya?) IHT (12th May) report that some of its operations were run out of Fort Bragg, as an extension of the Army’s Special Forces; that the unit […]
[…] foreign agents on international quangos. Another interesting consultancy is Strategic Profile International (SPI) which has offices in Carlton Terrace Gardens. One of SPI’s clients is the British- Libya Business Group. I apologise if neither SPI nor its clients have anything to do with espionage. (Joke I heard in Geneva: Q. Why are SIS Consultancies […]
[…] was first released onto California-based Yahoo website, which closed after a few days. The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘ Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an […]
[…] organised the bombing of the Miami Showband. She claims he told her that ‘security forces allowed weapons shipments to reach the paramilitaries, and terrorist training staff from Libya to pass unhindered.’ (Libyans in Northern Ireland?) She claims that towards the end of his life Nairac was afraid of being murdered by his own side […]
[…] about the David Shayler affair between August 2 and August 10 1998 produced rather little of significance other than the fact that Shayler, while head of MI5’s Libya desk, learned from his MI6 counterpart that 6 had bunged £100,000 at a Libyan exile group to try and kill Gadhafi. Trying to contain the situation, […]
[…] an expansion and updating of Blum’s The CIA: A Forgotten History, published by Zed Press in London in 1986. There are six new chapters, for example, on Libya, Panama, Bulgaria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. As the author notes, ‘The American government keeps people like me very busy.’ This is 383 pages of text, and […]
