Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret diplomacy of this period was the decision by the Israeli government in July 1977 to advise Egypt, Sudan and Saudi Arabia of some important information that Israeli intelligence had learned: namely, that leftist Arab extremists, trained in Libya and supported by that country's radical leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, were plotting to overthrow the moderate governments in Cairo, Khartoum and Riyadh. Acting on the information provided by Israel, those governments quickly arrested a number of the plotters. Sadat went further: he launched heavy commando raids against...
...English case involves three small, militantly leftist magazines held in contempt for printing the name of an Intelligence Officer. Called Colonel B in court, the officer had testified against two left-wing journalists charged under the British O.S.A. with receiving unauthorized information. Four members of Parliament later deliberately uttered his real name in a nationally broadcast debate. Radio commentators, fearing prosecution, were careful not to repeat the name. The magazines were hand-slapped with small fines (less than $1,000 each), and much of the press ridiculed the whole farce...
...Colonel B affair underlines the curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...
...point at which Giovannetti says fact swerves most sharply into fiction is a budding romance between the Soviet colonel and a beautiful woman agent in an Israeli intelligence ring he has infiltrated. "I have been told that the Israeli girl is so well described that I must have had such a relationship myself," says Giovannetti. "Not true. Some of the people are real, with names changed, some are half real, but the girl is one of the inventions." Nevertheless he does note that spy and priest, ironically, have something in common in their abstinence and discipline. "Panin could dream what...
...Americans living or traveling abroad, the dollar's week-long oscillations added yet more irritation to the once enjoyable experience of spending U.S. dollars overseas. At present exchange rates, a U.S. Army lieut. colonel stationed in Japan earns less than senior Japanese guards ($25,900) employed at the base near Tokyo. In Paris, where the French franc hit a three-year high against the dollar and a Coca-Cola costs $1.25, California Tourist William Warrell glumly observed: "I don't see how people can travel anymore. I really...