[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] against Hitler was conducted partly by military means: but it was also waged with Machiavellian cunning. Churchill knew that Tyler Kent, a coding clerk at the US Embassy in London, had stolen copies of his correspondence with Roosevelt. Had the details of Kent’s treachery been released the full extent of Roosevelt’s departure from strict […]
[…] travel plans. For seven years of Gaitskell’s postwar prominence in the Labour Party, Godson busied himself deeply in British Labour movement from his office at the American embassy. When the Gaitskellite Williams edited the former leader’s diaries, Godson figured sufficiently prominently to earn a pen portrait. And, in a footnote on Gaitskell’s efforts to […]
[…] in ’84. (Guardian 6 May 1985) Plan for SB to absorb anti-terror branch. (Daily Telegraph 4 March 1985 and Guardian 5 March) SB liaison with South African Embassy – providing information on anti-apartheid activities. (Leveller April 1985) State use of private intelligence agencies Three firms identified so far: used for intelligence gathering, infiltration and […]
[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 […]
