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"airbase intelligence role outside London" There are lots of US bases outside London that conduct US intelligence gathering - e.g RAF Menwith Hill.
by secfirstmd 7y ago
"airbase intelligence role outside London"
There are lots of US bases outside London that conduct US intelligence gathering - e.g RAF Menwith Hill.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWhich don't have everyone running on diplomatic plates, or actual diplomats. For a diplomatic cover, usually something for missions in unfriendly and hostile states, (shades of Cold War le Carré here) it would be for staff at the embassy -- which is in London. So the airbase would have to be considered a branch or part of the London embassy under the Vienna Convention. Yet Menwith Hill and Croughton etc are supposedly RAF bases militarily shared under NATO deals. Hence all the controversy currently coming out of the woodwork, and numerous articles quoting QCs and ministers disputing the validity at all, or considering it abuse of Vienna, including the exploration piece I linked above. IANAL. :)