[…] 27, 1963, meaning that an alleged third visit the next day did not actually occur. Either from this visit or some earlier event, the visitor to the Embassy was known to authorities as ‘Harvey Lee Oswald’. The visitor said he was a Communist. The corroboration of the suppressed testimony by the original visa application […]
[…] rid of’. ‘Any new government that is worth its salt’ would then ‘have to take drastic action against individual extremists’.(34) A fortnight later, in September 1951, the embassy was noting its preference ‘for a change of government to be engineered’.(35) An adviser at the British embassy, Colonel Wheeler, explained on 29 September that ‘combined […]
[…] of MI5, as the ‘Red Army’ are based at the London Embassies of the Soviet Union and her satellites. The KGB’s British headquarters is at the Soviet Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. The consular section nearby is staffed exclusively by KGB men, and others are to be found at the Soviet trade delegation offices […]
[…] officer says. ” He was a Russian official in Mexico City working for the CIA. We did our own inquiries and found a good candidate – an embassy KGB man who was probably a ‘walk-in’, volunteering information to the CIA.” (16) So, in 1963, when Oswald went to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, […]
[…] the research by Giles Scott-Smith on the US State Department’s funding of a big freebie trip to the US for Mrs Thatcher in 1967, after the US embassy in London had spotted her as a possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the Net. His ‘Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, […]
[…] details of that sensational episode. Fairly quickly after this appalling crime, expressions of disquiet with official explanations were voiced. If guns had been taken into the Libyan embassy, surely the intelligence agencies would have known? If there had been a Libyan embassy plan to fire at the anti-Gaddafi demonstrators on that fateful day on […]
[…] blessings” to the post-coup provisional government and assured him that the US was “on standby to help if needed”. These claims are vigorously denied by the US embassy in Fiji.(Evening Post, May 26 1987) The 1982 election American involvement in the previous election sets the scene for interpreting what was behind the coup. Outside […]
[…] the union to quit and start a break-away: standard union-splitting tactics, no doubt well known to U.S. labor veterans like Brown. But while acknowledging that ‘The American embassy was an open house for elements of every political hue in the CGT’, MacShane then tries to qualify this by informing us that ‘the American embassy […]
[…] it was an officer called Kirkpatrick. CIA officer Ann Goodpasteur is believed to have told an untruth to the HSCA about a picture taken at the Soviet Embassy on October 1 1963. She says delay until October 10th in informing headquarters was because of the unsuccessful efforts to identify the “unidentified man” – possibly […]
[…] what is often known as ‘light’ cover. The term serves as a reminder that it is a simple task for the local counter-espionage outfit to determine which embassy staff are genuine diplomats. Nevertheless the embassy has several advantages over locations outside: access to embassy facilities (archives, communications etc), diplomatic immunity and natural opportunities to […]
