[…] (US) and £10 (UK) Saul Landau is one of those names on the American Left that I recognise but whose work, apart from his Assassination on Embassy Row, about the murder of Letelier 25 years ago, I don’t think I have ever read before – maybe one or two things on the Net […]
[…] was the attempt, chronicled by Frank Snepp, to break a North Vietnamese prisoner, Nguyen Van Tai, one of the organisers of the Tet attack on the US Embassy in Saigon. As Snepp recalled, ‘he had not been treated kindly’ when first captured, but was now placed in solitary confinement in a totally white cell […]
[…] X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated with the deadly trade in Red Mercury…’, and so forth. It was a great mish-mash of facts, factoids and rumours – […]
[…] Gennadyevich Pokrovskiy (later expelled from Britain), who called himself ‘George’. My arrest was linked to the defection of Oshchenko, who was a KGB Colonel at the Russian Embassy in Paris between 1985 and 1992 before he came to Britain. The Prosecution claimed I was recruited to the KGB by Oshchenko in the mid-1970s, when […]
Ed. Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox i.e. secret diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
[…] COUNSELLOR BONN. NOW ENGAGED IN LEGAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND SDP/ALLIANCE POLITICAL WORK. BARNES, RICHARD CUMBERLAND B 19.7.12 PEMBROKE COLL OXFORD MI6(C) 1940 HM FORCES 1946 SECONDED TO EMBASSY ATHENS 1947 TRANSFERRED TO UK DELEGATION TO UNSCOB 1948 1ST SEC (LOCAL) ATHENS 1950 FO 1953 STUDENT NATO DEFENCE COLL PARIS 1ST SEC UK DELEGATION UN […]
[…] knew him. Lady Hulse 7 Culross St., London W1 Lady Hulse still lives in Culros Street, Mayfair, in a very fine mews house, immediately behind the American Embassy. She could not recall every meeting Clay Shaw or hearing the name, and neither could her house-keeper/companion who has been with her for fifty years. As […]
[…] the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and how manipulative the Israeli Embassy can be. But even Labour Friends of Israel is no AIPAC. Nearly all the Old Labour Right in the Party were pro-Israel, pro-nuclear armament, pro-EU and […]
[…] author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s and 70s. All the sources quoted in this paper were included in the Project Pandora papers released to […]
A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
