[…] about important allegations including the involvement of MI6 in a plot to assassinate General Gadaffi; that MI5 had prior knowledge of a plan to bomb the Israeli Embassy in London in 1994 (information that would have helped the defence of the two convicted for this, see below); and that MI5 could have prevented the […]
[…] met the Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine army, von der Becke, an officer of German origin, and the former Argentine military attaché to Italy, Colonel Peron. The German Embassy in Buenos Aires began channelling funds to selected local newspapers. A month later von der Becke and Peron led a military coup that seized power in […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] …. when he heard that Big Minh and his group were planning to assassinate Diem, he wanted to make a direct contact. He was hesitant about the embassy in Saigon because he could not trust his people there. So he called on Torby who … told Diem “They’re going to kill you. You’ve got […]
[…] ON MI5 COMPUTERISATION PROJECT (N.S. 5/3/82) DAVIS, PROF. NORMAN MBE (1945) B. 16/5/13 D. 2/12/89 MERTON COLL. OXFORD -36 LECTURER SOFIA 39-46 ‘GOVERNMENT SERVICE MAINLY ABROAD’ -39 EMBASSY SOFIA SECTION D SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSION -41 MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT GHQ CAIRO -45 QUEEN MARY COLL. LONDON -49 PROF. OF ENGLISH OXFORD UNI. 59-80 EMERITUS FELLOW […]
[…] Kent and a small social circle.(9) In March 1940 Griffiths tells us that Wolkoff leaked the British/French plans to seize Narvik to William Joyce via the Italian Embassy in London. This is bombshell no. 2.(10) By the end of March Stokes had the support of Lord Beaverbrook and the I.L.P. for his peace plans…… […]
[…] Huckfield. It worked. Blair was selected and duly elected in 1983. Commits to the USA His potential was spotted early on most notably by the US Embassy. In 1986 Blair went on a month’s free tour of the US, paid for by the State Department. (2) Having been given a significant front bench […]
[…] for many years, on whom there is a substantial appendix. Sparrow, one of the earliest UK defenders of the Warren Commission, was in touch with the US Embassy at this time, talked with ‘Embassy officials’ about this subject; and heeded their advice and agreed not to debate the Warren Commission conclusions with Mark Lane […]
[…] rocked by scandals of bribes and manipulation by foreign agencies. This disquiet was reflected by the expulsion between 1982 and 1985 of 11 American ‘diplomats’ from the embassy in Delhi and the consulate in Madras. (1) With Pakistan as America’s only unquestioning ally in the region, the death of Zia alone would have enormously […]
