[…] in Parliament. Their status, according to a major Soviet defector with whom I discussed the matter some years later, was that of “confidential contacts” of the Soviet embassy. One or two dealt directly with the Soviet International Department. They exerted a covert but at times decisive influence on Party policy’ (p. 274, emphasis added). […]
[…] the only one that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt that day. Sometime later on 26 November, Churchill’s private Secretary Anthony Bevoir sent by hand to the American Embassy a second message to be transmitted to Roosevelt, accompanied by a note ‘I enclose a telegram from the former naval Person to the President for dispatch […]
[…] their research.(22) A member of The Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP) run by Daniel Doran (former Israeli intelligence and special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv). The US ICSEP board includes Irving Kristol, while the UK ICSEP has Stanley Kalms (Conservative Party Treasurer), Lord Harris (IEA), Lord Young (BT, […]
[…] in Baghdad to refuel. Mozafar Asslam, the Iranian Ambassador in Baghdad, under Musadegh’s orders, refused to meet the Shah at the airport. In fact none of the embassy members dared to visit him. After refuelling, the aircraft flew to Rome. The Shah spent two days at the Excelsior Hotel during which the British and […]
[…] that facilities at the company were being used in the manufacture of centrifuge components and for the training of Libyan scientists. Amin’s Custom’s contact at the British embassy was one Malcolm Nesbit. Upon arrival in Dubai, Nesbit set up a meeting with the local MI6 station chief. At this point he received yet another […]
[…] Reagan Campaign’s intelligence operation, Robert Garrick, was in close contact with John Coale, a Washington, D.C. attorney who represented the 13 hostages released early from the American Embassy in Tehran (Albosta Report, Vol. I, p. 54). On Sunday, April 20, 1980, two days after Carter’s decision to go ahead with the rescue attempt and […]
[…] man now working alongside – and possibly replacing in time – Alastair Campbell in running the Prime Minister’s spin machine. Blair’s chief of staff is former Washington embassy diplomat Jonathan Powell. Recruited to the BAP in 1991 along with new TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, Powell has praised the organisation for ‘taking the working […]
[…] marketing: i.e. my pal’s views of them, coupled with his professional standing, have ‘legs’…. By chance, I also met two principled American-Arab diplomats attached to the US embassy to Britain, at the London office of Al-Jazeera. Their eyes red with exhaustion/anguish, at the height of the US/UK invasion of Iraq, they had been given […]
[…] et al. A good example is Bernard Levin’s article in The Times 2 February 1987. In the case of Imam, the journal put out by the Iranian embassy in London. For example the Niederense article reviewed in this issue. Available from George Mitchell, 90 St. John St., Glasgow Cl, £1.50 It’s Not Over… ‘Til […]
[…] completed Operation Storm (carried out with U.S. assistance). The room was full of journalists and things were just about to start when a official from the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb suddenly entered and announced that a press conference was about to begin at the embassy where information would be released on aerial photos of […]
