[…] Reagan Campaign’s intelligence operation, Robert Garrick, was in close contact with John Coale, a Washington, D.C. attorney who represented the 13 hostages released early from the American Embassy in Tehran (Albosta Report, Vol. I, p. 54). On Sunday, April 20, 1980, two days after Carter’s decision to go ahead with the rescue attempt and […]
[…] that facilities at the company were being used in the manufacture of centrifuge components and for the training of Libyan scientists. Amin’s Custom’s contact at the British embassy was one Malcolm Nesbit. Upon arrival in Dubai, Nesbit set up a meeting with the local MI6 station chief. At this point he received yet another […]
[…] man now working alongside – and possibly replacing in time – Alastair Campbell in running the Prime Minister’s spin machine. Blair’s chief of staff is former Washington embassy diplomat Jonathan Powell. Recruited to the BAP in 1991 along with new TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, Powell has praised the organisation for ‘taking the working […]
[…] et al. A good example is Bernard Levin’s article in The Times 2 February 1987. In the case of Imam, the journal put out by the Iranian embassy in London. For example the Niederense article reviewed in this issue. Available from George Mitchell, 90 St. John St., Glasgow Cl, £1.50 It’s Not Over… ‘Til […]
[…] marketing: i.e. my pal’s views of them, coupled with his professional standing, have ‘legs’…. By chance, I also met two principled American-Arab diplomats attached to the US embassy to Britain, at the London office of Al-Jazeera. Their eyes red with exhaustion/anguish, at the height of the US/UK invasion of Iraq, they had been given […]
[…] completed Operation Storm (carried out with U.S. assistance). The room was full of journalists and things were just about to start when a official from the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb suddenly entered and announced that a press conference was about to begin at the embassy where information would be released on aerial photos of […]
[…] …. 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 […]
[…] the CIA.(20) TUCETU’s roots lie in the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (LCTU), set up in 1976 by the late Joe Godson, labour attaché at the US embassy and highly active in Labour politics from the Gaitskell period onwards. As TUCETU put it, LCTU was formed ‘in order to develop a better understanding of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
