[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]
[PDF file]: […] a 1989 seminar on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. . . .in the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]
[PDF file]: […] to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from a Soviet embassy official – since the late 1940s. The Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 saw the CPGB’s membership drop by between a quarter and a third.15 Had […]
[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]
[…] or . 6 7 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or . 8 2 Party bugged and penetrated, they knew about the money from the Soviet embassy which was keeping it going.9 I have suggested before in these columns that had MI5 exposed the Soviet funding after the Red Army rolled its tanks […]
[PDF file]: […] comedy in the following passage: 4 Andrew Biswell, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, (London: Picador, 2006) p.236 ‘When I asked a former diplomat from the Russian embassy about the possibility that Burgess was secretly employed by British intelligence, he told me that a volubly indiscreet drunk such as Burgess, who also happened to […]
[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]
[…] a 1989 seminar on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. . . .in the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]
[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]
[…] government. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. In the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]
