[…] Frank was picked up a few hours later by the same men. At the time he was getting ready to open an Italian restaurant near the American embassy. Anyway, both men were taken to Damascus, imprisoned and interrogated. According to an account that Frank later gave me, the Syrians wanted him and Korkala to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] see Peter Weiler, chapter 1. 18 6 loyally to keep an agreement. 19 In 1948, a member of the U.S. State Department, Third Secretary at the London Embassy, Herbert E. Weiner, reported from London on ‘Attitude of Trades Union Congress Towards World Federation of Trade Unions and American International Trade Union Leaders’, and wrote: […]
[PDF file]: […] the Warren Commission, that refers to an Associated Press (AP) news report on the interview Fidel Castro gave to the AP reporter Daniel Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana on 7 September 1963. Picking up on the AP wire feed, the New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune ran a page 7 story, ‘Castro Blasts […]
[PDF file]: […] imagine just how much it really is!’ British dominance A reflection of the British dominance of the PMC industry is that the website for the United States Embassy in Baghdad provides a list of ten security companies working in country, half of which are UK-based or were established by UK persons.1 0 At the […]
