[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ripping-off what they could. Not for them the enthusiastic pursuit of intelligence coups – as would-be ideologically defector Michael Bettanay discovered when his overtures to the Soviet embassy in London were spurned by the cautious comrade Guk. ‘It was not in the institutional interests of British intelligence to tell ministers or officials what they […]
[…] ‘sky high!’ FBI spy Robert Hanssen was bad! (But no info about his specific badness, and no mention of the tunnel the Americans dug under the Russian embassy, or vice versa). Never mind! Bin Laden bad! The longer articles similarly crash on the rocks of recycled press reports. ‘Peru is a nation not usually […]
[…] Persia where he organised the escape of White Russians across the border. He also helped to organise espionage, including the robbing of the safe in the Russian Embassy. In the Gurkhas during the Second World War. In 1950 came out of retirement to act as Deputy Director of Operations against Coptic and Muslim guerrillas […]
[…] Bush to make a decision.’ Afghanistan In Afghanistan too, there are mutterings – and not only about resources and the Americans. The populist story about the UK Embassy in Afghanistan being given a swimming pool for staff to relax in while the soldiery faces water shortages in Helmand Province may be exaggerated, but it […]
[…] in ’84. (Guardian 6 May 1985) Plan for SB to absorb anti-terror branch. (Daily Telegraph 4 March 1985 and Guardian 5 March) SB liaison with South African Embassy – providing information on anti-apartheid activities. (Leveller April 1985) State use of private intelligence agencies Three firms identified so far: used for intelligence gathering, infiltration and […]
