Orit bashkin biography of williams
In New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq, Orit Bashkin has written a much-needed analysis of a community whose history has too.
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Introduction for The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy
INTRODUCTION
AROUND MIDNIGHT ON JULY 14, , THE AMERICAN STATE DEPARTMENT received a telegram from the US embassy in Iraq explaining that earlier that day Iraqi soldiers had arrested a number of Americans staying at the New Baghdad Hotel.1 One of those arrested was Eugene Burns of Sausalito, California.
Burns was a Moscow-born AP reporter and nature writer in Baghdad promoting the Holy Land Foundation, a nonprofit group with the stated purpose of improving US–Middle East relations.2 Burns was also rumored to be the CIA station chief in Baghdad.3 Another of those arrested was George Colley, Jr., of San Francisco.
Colley, president of the overseas division of the Bechtel Corporation, was in the country to “inspect oil company projects.”4 A third was Robert Alcock, an industrial engineer from Los Angeles, who was in the country meeting with Colley without the official knowledge of either the State Department or the go