After arriving at Langley Field in Hampton, the visitors were driven through Yorktown on their way to Williamsburg. Along the way, the British officers asked questions about this area of Virginia, including shipbuilding and duck hunting.
Blow up the oil fields. Possibly by detonating nuclear weapons.
Declassified documents show that Anglo-Americans were so pessimistic in the early days of the Cold War about their chances of defending the Middle East, that they resolved to destroy the oil fields rather than let them fall into Soviet hands, according to writer Steve Everly. In an article published in Politico, Everly describes how in 1948, as the Soviets were blockading Berlin, the Truman administration approved a plan in which American and British oil companies, such as Aramco (Arabian-American Oil Company) and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (an ancestor of today’s BP) would cooperate in the destruction of their own oil facilities. A Central Intelligence Agency operative told British oil-company representatives how their production operations in those countries would in effect be transformed into a paramilitary force, trained and ready to execute the CIA’s plan in the event of a Soviet invasion, Everly writes.
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Atlantis captured her 13th victim since leaving Germany eight months earlier:
SS Automedon, a British merchantman.
Upon learning that the
Automedon was to be sunk once the boarding party returned, a passenger from the
Automedon, Mrs Violet Ferguson, pleaded with the captain to retrieve her luggage first. Kapitan Rogge relented and the boarding party were informed.
The SS Automedon of the Blue Funnel Line. Photo courtesy of www.wrecksite.eu
Second Officer Donald Stewart had kept the German boarding party from discovering the strongroom but, when Leutnant Ulrich Mohr asked he be shown to the room where the luggage was kept, Stewart was crestfallen. Stored in the same room were 125 British mailbags.
The House Speaker publicizes her nuclear option to protect the world from Trump.
We scoured the U.S. Constitution Friday afternoon and it’s definitely not there:
the provision allowing the Speaker of the House of Representatives to intervene in the military chain of command to protect the world from President Trump.
Mrs. Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues that she spoke Friday morning to
Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “to discuss available
precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military
hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.” She
posted the “Dear colleague” letter on her website to make sure the world got