In October the US Government hired advertising doyenne Charlotte Beers as Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. (1) She intended ‘commissioning research into the Arab mentality’, confirming what we already knew: the American Government has so little respect for its many Arab/Muslim citizens, it has had to commission research into who they […]
[…] and Co. London 1984) This is a pleasant – if somewhat blind – memoire by a US career diplomat who ended up as the US Ambassador to Iran when the Shah fell. There are lots of little bits and pieces in the earlier chapters which may interest students of the history of US involvement […]
[…] history but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, […]
[…] UNIV’S BERLIN LONDON BIRMINGHAM 1941 ROYAL ENGINEERS 1942-50 ‘SECONDED TO A SPECIAL DEPT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE’ 1950 MANCHESTER UNIV 1966 PROF OF PERSIAN STUDIES SPECIALIST ON IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST BRAND, JOHN MCHARDY B 12.6.50 MI6 (C) 1974 FCO 1975 3RD LATER 2ND SEC ON LOAN TO NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE 1977 2ND […]
[…] The second is its very one-sided account of recent events in the Middle East, so that, for example, the CIA’s and MI6’s covert toppling of Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 is only mentioned in passing, and the Zionists’ seizure of Palestine on the grounds that they had lived there 2000 years before a […]
[…] trade route to the Far East and the main passage through which oil reached Britain and Europe was com-pounded by the coming to power of Musaddiq in Iran. It became apparent to the British government that their regional interests could only be secured through Cyprus, their only remaining colony in the area. Towards the […]
[…] Served in North Africa and Italy 1945-48: Military attaché in Brazil 1950: Accompanied Averell Harriman to Korea 1951: Assisted Harriman in US mediation attempts between Britain and Iran 1951-56: Assistant to the deputy Chief of Staff at Shape, Paris 1956-60 Staff Assistant to President Eisenhower 1967: Served in Vietnam 1967-72: US Military attaché in […]
Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. […]
[…] may be interesting to read C. M. Woodhouse’s The Rise and Fall of the Greek Colonels (Granada). Woodhouse worked for MI6 after the war in Greece and Iran, then became a Tory MP. William Keegan’s column in the Observer is the most informative economic view of Britain so his Britain Without Oil (Penguin) should […]
[…] to pursue nuclear programs, no matter what the time or cost, are very different’ from traditional nuclear powers such as Britain and France. North Korea, Algeria, Libya, Iran and, of course, Iraq fit this bill. To quote: ‘They and their terrorist cousins are more likely driven by…. the desire to…. terrorise, blackmail, coerce, or […]
