[…] 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 […]
[…] the CIA.(20) TUCETU’s roots lie in the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (LCTU), set up in 1976 by the late Joe Godson, labour attaché at the US embassy and highly active in Labour politics from the Gaitskell period onwards. As TUCETU put it, LCTU was formed ‘in order to develop a better understanding of […]
[…] …. when he heard that Big Minh and his group were planning to assassinate Diem, he wanted to make a direct contact. He was hesitant about the embassy in Saigon because he could not trust his people there. So he called on Torby who … told Diem “They’re going to kill you. You’ve got […]
[…] ON MI5 COMPUTERISATION PROJECT (N.S. 5/3/82) DAVIS, PROF. NORMAN MBE (1945) B. 16/5/13 D. 2/12/89 MERTON COLL. OXFORD -36 LECTURER SOFIA 39-46 ‘GOVERNMENT SERVICE MAINLY ABROAD’ -39 EMBASSY SOFIA SECTION D SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSION -41 MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT GHQ CAIRO -45 QUEEN MARY COLL. LONDON -49 PROF. OF ENGLISH OXFORD UNI. 59-80 EMERITUS FELLOW […]
[…] Telegraph and The Times which were sometimes used to flag things up, and which could be spotted in London, perhaps via an associate at a particular country’s embassy. Using the same fictitious APG as an example, a lobbyist could have ensured that, say, a member of the House of Lords participated in a specific […]
[…] basic communications carriers’. The DIA’s follow up reports reinforced this, warning that; ‘Soviets or Czech perfection of psychotronic weapons would pose a severe threat to enemy military, embassy or security functions. The emitted energy would be silent and difficult to detect electronically. The Soviets claim to have developed effective biological energy sensors and the […]
[…] in America at the time. Adam Marris, employed at Lazards from 1929-1939, spent a short time in the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London, joined the British Embassy in Washington in 1949 as 1st Secretary, and later became Counsellor. After the war he returned to Lazards until the 1970s, and was also a director […]
