[…] Persia where he organised the escape of White Russians across the border. He also helped to organise espionage, including the robbing of the safe in the Russian Embassy. In the Gurkhas during the Second World War. In 1950 came out of retirement to act as Deputy Director of Operations against Coptic and Muslim guerrillas […]
[…] ripping-off what they could. Not for them the enthusiastic pursuit of intelligence coups – as would-be ideologically defector Michael Bettanay discovered when his overtures to the Soviet embassy in London were spurned by the cautious comrade Guk. ‘It was not in the institutional interests of British intelligence to tell ministers or officials what they […]
[…] been allegations of torture and killing. According to newspaper reports at the time, this contract had “the discreet approval of the Foreign Office.” Shortly before the Libyan Embassy shooting a British corporation, AMAC, otherwise known for trying to supply riot control vehicles to Chile, was talking to the Libyan Government about training 17 of […]
[…] ‘sky high!’ FBI spy Robert Hanssen was bad! (But no info about his specific badness, and no mention of the tunnel the Americans dug under the Russian embassy, or vice versa). Never mind! Bin Laden bad! The longer articles similarly crash on the rocks of recycled press reports. ‘Peru is a nation not usually […]
[…] Club: Carlton. (FO, DDI) Holden (Lord) Angur William Eden Holden, b. 1898. Liberal peer. Ex Guards’ Regiment; Hon Attache, H.M. Mission to Holy See, 1918; to H.M. Embassy, Madrid, 1922; to Berlin, 1925. Club: Guards’, Royal Automobile. Advocate of negotiated peace, 1939-40. (FO, PREM, Stokes, Chamberlain, Cockett, De Courcy) Kerr, Lt-Col Charles Iain, M.P. […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: ‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right John Newsinger On 14 May 2018, the US Embassy in Israel was formally moved to Jerusalem. This had first been called for by Congress in 1995, but with the proviso that the President could issue a waiver every […]
