[…] estimated that some 20 members were in hiding or in exile – including Stark. Timothy Leary ended up in Afghanistan, after fleeing the US, but the US Embassy evidently knew he was coming and got the Afghan authorities to deport him back to the USA. Ron Stark visited Afghanistan at least once with a […]
[…] or middleman. (88) Lockheed internal memos at the time show no reasons for the change, but a later memo reports from the Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta that there were ‘some political considerations behind it’. (89) If this is true, it would suggest that in May 1965, five months before the […]
[…] people. Hundreds, maybe thousands, no-one has yet assembled the data of British trade union officials and MPs that had these freebies. The State Department, via the London embassy, was sending back masses of reports. The idea that this was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced […]
Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits […]
[…] furthered by the provision of money from time to time).’ (6) In the mid-fifties, according to Chester Cooper, the Labour Party ‘was virtually ignored by the American Embassy during the tenure of Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich.’ But he adds a rider: ‘A few of us, however, tried to provide key Labour Party members with some […]
[…] to achieve his final official intelligence posting, when, after the liberation of France, and after being transferred from SOE to MI6, he was posted to the British Embassy in Paris. Ambassador Duff Cooper had requested this because he regarded Ayer as a ‘first-class political observer’. Ayer was vague as to what his specific duties […]
[…] Studies (SOAS). She was still teaching at SOAS into the late seventies, although her career started during the Second World War when she was at the British Embassy in Teheran. Although Dorril does not say so, her students included the late Alexis Forter (see below). It is a pity that Dorril did not build […]
[…] 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 […]
