[…] but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism […]
[…] Which ones, Professor? The only KGB agent in the story that I can recall is the KGB officer Kostikov who was under diplomatic cover in the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. Oswald – or someone pretending to be Oswald, it still isn’t clear which – tried to contact Kostikov. Oswald’s ‘demi-monde’ consisted not of […]
[…] However, it contains slivers of information which were new to me, including some interesting material on the spook-backed journalist, Priscilla Johnson, and Oswald’s visits to the American embassy in Moscow; statements made by David Attlee Phillips and background on former CIA officer, William Corson; and a short biography of Howard Hunt, which shows him […]
[…] cousin Iyad Allawi. Allawi, known as ‘Sadaam Lite’, is a British-trained neurosurgeon who is believed to have headed the European division of the Mukhabarat from the Iraqi embassy in London. Despite being accused of having tortured and killed, Allawi still ended up as the coalition’s interim Prime Minister of Iraq in the run up […]
[…] but by no means least, on the foreign policy and defence front, we have Jonathan Powell, the career diplomat who gave up his posting at the Washington embassy to work for Tony Blair in opposition and now runs his No 10 office as chief of staff. Powell is the youngest of the Powell brothers, […]
[…] Frank was picked up a few hours later by the same men. At the time he was getting ready to open an Italian restaurant near the American embassy. Anyway, both men were taken to Damascus, imprisoned and interrogated. According to an account that Frank later gave me, the Syrians wanted him and Korkala to […]
[…] wary Agee to discuss their mutal fink acquaintance and joins the great CIA hunt in London in 1975, identifying CIA personnel working under cover at the US embassy in London. He is drifting towards the CIA – or is it coming towards him? He begins an article on them and, four years of research […]
[…] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London. (3) Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major […]
[…] against Hitler was conducted partly by military means: but it was also waged with Machiavellian cunning. Churchill knew that Tyler Kent, a coding clerk at the US Embassy in London, had stolen copies of his correspondence with Roosevelt. Had the details of Kent’s treachery been released the full extent of Roosevelt’s departure from strict […]
[…] travel plans. For seven years of Gaitskell’s postwar prominence in the Labour Party, Godson busied himself deeply in British Labour movement from his office at the American embassy. When the Gaitskellite Williams edited the former leader’s diaries, Godson figured sufficiently prominently to earn a pen portrait. And, in a footnote on Gaitskell’s efforts to […]
