[…] attack, Gerecht pointed out the reluctance of the CIA to conduct operations under ‘non-official cover’, their refusal to engage in local events and culture beyond the business/ embassy circuit and the ‘total absence of staff trained in local languages’ a cultural and operational nightmare that conjures up images of men in black suits […]
[…] MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us that everyone going in and out of the Embassy […]
[…] less than 24 hours after the shooting – LBJ and Hoover had this curious exchange. LBJ: Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September? (emphasis added). Hoover: No, that’s one angle that’s very confusing, for this reason – we have up here the tape and the […]
[…] civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ issue of the magazine shortly after Clive Ponting […]
[…] the Nesar Hindawi case as a Mossad operation designed to disrupt Syria’s relations with Europe. He points out that Hindawi’s father, a long-time employee of the Jordanian Embassy in London, was sentenced to death in absentia by the Jordanians for being a Mossad agent, and that Nesar’s brother Hasi, arrested after the Berlin night-club […]
[…] the Israeli Lobby (Lawrence Hill & Co 1986): ‘During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, columnist Jack Anderson quoted “US intelligence reports”, actually supplied by the Israeli embassy by way of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that the PLO had mined the embassy to frustrate any rescue attempt by the United States. The […]
[…] adds another. He cites CBS news as having identified 11 CIA agents as being present in Fiji at the time of the coup. Evidence for the US embassy in Suva having advance knowledge of the coup is that riot shutters went up at the windows about half an hour before the coup took place.” […]
[…] Knightley wrote: ‘As an Ambassador in Ankara once said to me, “I’m here to foster good relations between Britain and Turkey and I have to share my embassy with British spies who spend their time trying to persuade Turkish citizens to be traitors. Is it any wonder I would like to see the back […]
[…] in Parliament. Their status, according to a major Soviet defector with whom I discussed the matter some years later, was that of “confidential contacts” of the Soviet embassy. One or two dealt directly with the Soviet International Department. They exerted a covert but at times decisive influence on Party policy’ (p. 274, emphasis added). […]
[…] the only one that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt that day. Sometime later on 26 November, Churchill’s private Secretary Anthony Bevoir sent by hand to the American Embassy a second message to be transmitted to Roosevelt, accompanied by a note ‘I enclose a telegram from the former naval Person to the President for dispatch […]
