Toby Harnden

In August 1960, Allen Dulles, @CIA director, revealed all, just after Eisenhower ordered the assassination of Lumumba in Congo & USSR convicted U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage: “Thank you for your letter about my addiction to pipe smoking. Without in any way endorsing https://t.co/J2hoXLZ8JQ

Anyone know when Iran’s road numbering system came into being? For instance, Road 44 aka Imam Reza Highway goes from Tehran to Meshhad. What would it have been called in 1980?

Anyone know what type of tree this is? It’s in northern Italy. https://t.co/sotrwpLaQa

VMI will now have two of its graduates in major defense posts - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (LTG Dan Caine, Class of ‘90) and National Security Adviser (@michaelgwaltz, Class of ‘96)

Worth remembering that in 2007 Gen. Peter Pace USMC was not nominated by Obama for a customary 2nd term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Among the factors was that Pace was a conservative Catholic. By his own account (from a fascinating 2016 oral history interview): “…the fact

The ultiamte non sequitur? “The CIA has always denied that it had any connection to Oswald before the assassination, despite his defection to the Soviet Union in 1959 and his abrupt return three years later with a Russian wife in tow.” https://t.co/eRp4S1Fa5l

Anyone recognize where this quotation is from (I assume it must be a paraphrase)? Said to be by Thomas Macauley but can’t find any record of it: “Let them be. Their reward is to be what they are.”

Does anyone know the model of this 1973-75 Ford? It seems to be an LTD but the bumper is a little different from the others I’ve seen. The photo was taken in Athens. It looks like it might be a right-hand drive vehicle, though Greece is a right-hand traffic country. https://t.co/ruU5T8AOHu

Great to hear - thank you!

Garry Maddocks @GarryMaddocks1

I'm really enjoying this fabulous book. The detail and insider knowledge are incredible. It's a dramatic story .

RT @op_hawkeye: .@op_hawkeye Amazing two-part episode of @TheAfgPod features @tobyharnden ~ we remember our heroic #CIA operators 🇺🇸

I’ve always loved this photo of a condemned man smiling, cigar in mouth, hands in pockets, as he faces a firing squad. I first saw it in 1990 at an Edinburgh exhibition. He was Carlos Fortino Sámano, 27, a captain in Mexico’s Constitutionalist Army executed in Mexico City on https://t.co/vOk9ebtwdZ

Thank you so much @RohYakobi. The suffering and sacrifice of the Hazaras is one of the most poignant elements of the huge tragedy of Afghanistan.

Roh Yakobi @RohYakobi

Reading @tobyharnden’s First Casualty. It’s breathtakingly good. As a Hazara who experienced Taliban torture, it’s also incredibly painful to read. https://t.co/q7qtOcYHw7

Mark Burnett was born in London in 1960 and spent four years in the Parachute Regiment, serving in Northern Ireland and in the Falklands War in 1982.

New York Post @nypost

‘You’re hired!’: Trump names ‘The Apprentice’ creator Mark Burnett special envoy to the UK https://t.co/YlI0pZeuPJ https://t.co/APyhzllpc7

Remembering Johnny Micheal Spann, @CIA officer, Marine, son, husband, father. KIA 23 years ago today during an Al-Qaeda prisoner revolt at Qala-i Jangi, northern Afghanistan. Mike went down fighting the enemy at close quarters with his AKMS & Glock 17. He is commemorated by the https://t.co/srp6ehuqs0