[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] tells us that by 1953 the various US information services – what we would now call psy-ops – had 93 (!) people working out of the London Embassy. Doing what? There are new accounts here of some of the major landmarks of British post-war decolonisation, Malaya and Cyprus; but, oddly, nothing on Kenya. The […]
[…] Club: Carlton. (FO, DDI) Holden (Lord) Angur William Eden Holden, b. 1898. Liberal peer. Ex Guards’ Regiment; Hon Attache, H.M. Mission to Holy See, 1918; to H.M. Embassy, Madrid, 1922; to Berlin, 1925. Club: Guards’, Royal Automobile. Advocate of negotiated peace, 1939-40. (FO, PREM, Stokes, Chamberlain, Cockett, De Courcy) Kerr, Lt-Col Charles Iain, M.P. […]
[…] the men arrested in Gambia and subsequently released said that when he was questioned by his American interrogator and demanded to contact a lawyer and the British Embassy he received an illuminating response: ‘Who do you think asked us to arrest you? Where do you think this information came from, the questions we are […]
[PDF file]: […] see Peter Weiler, chapter 1. 18 6 loyally to keep an agreement. 19 In 1948, a member of the U.S. State Department, Third Secretary at the London Embassy, Herbert E. Weiner, reported from London on ‘Attitude of Trades Union Congress Towards World Federation of Trade Unions and American International Trade Union Leaders’, and wrote: […]
[PDF file]: […] the Warren Commission, that refers to an Associated Press (AP) news report on the interview Fidel Castro gave to the AP reporter Daniel Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana on 7 September 1963. Picking up on the AP wire feed, the New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune ran a page 7 story, ‘Castro Blasts […]
[PDF file]: […] imagine just how much it really is!’ British dominance A reflection of the British dominance of the PMC industry is that the website for the United States Embassy in Baghdad provides a list of ten security companies working in country, half of which are UK-based or were established by UK persons.1 0 At the […]
