[…] 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 […]
[…] (sic) of current repressive efforts targeted against the PKI. ’ That ‘burden’ is a reference to the killing of between 100,000 and 1 million people, though the embassy in Indonesia was uncertain about the numbers. In a message of 15 April 1966 to Washington, the embassy acknowledged: ‘We frankly do not know whether the […]
[…] to the Chief of the U.S. Advisory Group in Korea at different times between 1953 and 1961, and was assistant military attache at the Washington D.C. ROK embassy from 1961 to 1964, where he functioned as liaison between the KCIA and the U.S. intelligence agencies. (71) In this latter capacity, he served as one […]
[…] one of the standard KGB tactics of the period: send a good-looking man romancing among the political lower orders. The KGB man, under cover at the Soviet embassy, bought her lunch, then he bought her lunch again and asked her to get some documents for him, Labour Party policy documents, the kind that would […]
[…] Gennadyevich Pokrovskiy (later expelled from Britain), who called himself ‘George’. My arrest was linked to the defection of Oshchenko, who was a KGB Colonel at the Russian Embassy in Paris between 1985 and 1992 before he came to Britain. The Prosecution claimed I was recruited to the KGB by Oshchenko in the mid-1970s, when […]
Ed. Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox – i.e. secret – diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
[…] of the Israeli government. Two months later Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the no. 2 in the Israeli embassy in London. According to the Sunday Times of 2 July 2000, Levy was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of […]
[…] the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and how manipulative the Israeli Embassy can be. But even Labour Friends of Israel is no AIPAC. Nearly all the Old Labour Right in the Party were pro-Israel, pro-nuclear armament, pro-EU and […]
A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
[…] war for both NATO intelligence and the BND, where he specialized in acquiring information on the left under journalistic cover.(107) With the help of the communist Chinese embassy in Berne, he persuaded Bulliard to hire him and other AP personnel as correspondents for the PCS/MI- paper, L’Etincelle. (108) Armed with these credentials, Leroy and […]
