[…] cousin Iyad Allawi. Allawi, known as ‘Sadaam Lite’, is a British-trained neurosurgeon who is believed to have headed the European division of the Mukhabarat from the Iraqi embassy in London. Despite being accused of having tortured and killed, Allawi still ended up as the coalition’s interim Prime Minister of Iraq in the run up […]
[…] League was set up in London and an Anglo-American Committee in New York. In England, “so many Britons sought to enlist in the American forces that the embassy in London had to publicise a statement discouraging applications.” (17) This outburst of Anglo-Saxonism may be considered as the culmination of an effort of many years […]
[…] Which ones, Professor? The only KGB agent in the story that I can recall is the KGB officer Kostikov who was under diplomatic cover in the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. Oswald – or someone pretending to be Oswald, it still isn’t clear which – tried to contact Kostikov. Oswald’s ‘demi-monde’ consisted not of […]
[…] but by no means least, on the foreign policy and defence front, we have Jonathan Powell, the career diplomat who gave up his posting at the Washington embassy to work for Tony Blair in opposition and now runs his No 10 office as chief of staff. Powell is the youngest of the Powell brothers, […]
[…] right-wing Cambodian government in 1975, the Moon paper, Rising Tide (full of Cuban exile, Chilean junta and WACL propaganda) was distributed free of charge by the Cambodian Embassy in Washington – a service ultimately paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. In 1975 Senator Thurmond was the focal point for visits from European neo-fascists, most […]
[…] wary Agee to discuss their mutal fink acquaintance and joins the great CIA hunt in London in 1975, identifying CIA personnel working under cover at the US embassy in London. He is drifting towards the CIA – or is it coming towards him? He begins an article on them and, four years of research […]
[…] this, the single most important claim in the entire book. David Attlee Phillips admits, for the first time, that Lee Harvey Oswald did not visit the Soviet embassy in Mexico City in 1963. If that means nothing to you, then the book will probably mean nothing. At the heart of Lane’s case was Hunt’s […]
[…] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London. (3) Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major […]
[…] However, it contains slivers of information which were new to me, including some interesting material on the spook-backed journalist, Priscilla Johnson, and Oswald’s visits to the American embassy in Moscow; statements made by David Attlee Phillips and background on former CIA officer, William Corson; and a short biography of Howard Hunt, which shows him […]
[…] Bush to make a decision.’ Afghanistan In Afghanistan too, there are mutterings – and not only about resources and the Americans. The populist story about the UK Embassy in Afghanistan being given a swimming pool for staff to relax in while the soldiery faces water shortages in Helmand Province may be exaggerated, but it […]
