CONTROL! WIKIPEDIA-CATCHWORD „JOHN LE CARRÉ”, PLEASE!

… Theme of his novels was, until the Eighties, the East-West-contradiction and the Cold War. These novels were distinct through differentiated psychological sketches of their protagonists and through meticulous research.
Le Carré abandoned the usual contrast of black and white. He paints everything in grey; half-angels fight half-devils. In its struggle against communism, the West uses methods of the East thereby betraying those ideals it is fighting for.
In his novels, Le Carré quite often repeats the question whether it is allowed to use for defence the same means as the enemy is using, and remaining a society, which is worth to be defended. Even after the end of the Cold War Carré did stick to his theme: Men who decide themselves for the individual and against the institution, and — in general — he continues to criticize the West’s policy …

„Before you ask me, I can’t grumble! WIKIPEDIA has correctly reviewed my literary ambitions …
I’m sorry, but I am not a James Bond-fan! Although this figure by my colleague Fleming is certainly much more popular than my George Smiley whose genius as a secret service-man is quite the opposite of his inability to tie and to maintain social bonds ...
You know, the time has left Smiley disillusioned, he is not anymore fighting for or against an idea, he is doing it because it is the best he is able to do, because he never learned anything else. I have met such tragic and surrealistic figures in real life when I was doing my research …
It could be attractive to get to know more about your ambassador in Harare … I find it exciting that an independent web-directory is being used to update his professional status chronologically. Especially interesting is the attempt to construe a story for posterity in which covered activities of the U.S.A. are being justified through a quasi-heroic person acting in a country whose system of government is up for disposition … it would be interesting to find out who is actually doing the update …
On the other hand, an important building-stone is missing here to come up with a proper Anglo-American conspiracy: London — our man will not work on his own, he must harmonize his activities with London! That has tradition, and someone who played the Anglo-American card in what was then called Rhodesia is …“

Henry Kissinger? Henry!

Heinz Alfred Kissinger, the immigrant from Fürth in German Frankenland, the one who, with not much more talent than vanity and the inexhaustible quality to refer to himself, would show a dominant nation and her presidents how to use the power of an empire, and when advisable, to misuse it. However, this obvious reincarnation of old European diplomatic school had not invented himself; he had his masters. In a lecture some twenty-five years ago, he summarized his training in front of the right breed of followers who had assembled at the ‚Royal Institute of International Affairs‘ at London’s St. James Square:

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⁹ »Our diplomatic post-war history is marked by Anglo-American agreements and understandings which would touch sensitive issues but which never were fixed in written documents. Britons were so helpful that they participated in internal American reflections in a way, as it was never before practiced between two sovereign states. Britons did play a key-role in some bilateral treaties during my term of office. Whilst I was working in the White House I kept the British Foreign Office better informed than the American Secretariat of Foreign Affairs.«

»During my negotiations about Rhodesia, I based my arguments on British scripture whereby I never understood the difference between a working concept and a document passed by the cabinet. This type of cooperation is lasting until today ...«

„Do you have more documents about the actions of this American ambassador to Zimbabwe?“

As already mentioned, WIKIPEDIA seems to be the best source for the way how the U.S.A. would like to have his activities presented to the world.

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Again, the website as it was online on 23rd March 2007:

Dell became U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe in August 2004. During his tenure, the government of President Robert Mugabe has carried out Operation Murambatsvina, which has been described by Mugabe as an “urban renewal” programme and by his political opponents as a crackdown on the urban poor. Western governments, including that of the United States, have condemned it.
Relations between the United States and Zimbabwe have deteriorated as a result of both Operation Murambatsvina and the humanitarian situation in the country, which the United States has blamed on official corruption and mismanagement. In addition, the U.S. named Zimbabwe an abuser of human rights in 2004 annual report.
As a result of tense relations, Dell has borne the brunt of the Zimbabwe government’s displeasure. In mid-October 2005, he was detained for entering a restricted area of the Harare Botanical Gardens. A few weeks later, at a public lecture in the city of Mutare, Dell blamed corruption for the food shortages in the country, which the Zimbabwe government blames on foreign sanctions. On November 8, 2005, Dell was summoned to meet President Mugabe and was told to “go to hell.” The following day, the ambassador was recalled to the United States for consultations. He subsequently returned.
Dell publicly condemned the beating of several opposition Movement for Democratic Change leaders and protestors, which occurred on March 11 2007, including that of party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.
On March 19, acting on orders from President Mugabe, Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi summoned Dell and other western diplomats to his ministry to receive an official warning to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs. When Mumbengegwi refused to allow the diplomats an opportunity to ask questions, Dell walked out, describing the meeting as a "sham" for the benefit of the state media, who were filming the proceedings. Dell left Harare the same day for London. The State Department stated that he would return to Zimbabwe soon.

For London! ...

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Government reads riot act
Herald Reporter

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Cde Simbarashe Mumbengegwi yesterday read the riot act to Western ambassadors for interfering in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs, but United States ambassador Mr Christopher Dell walked out before the briefing got underway.
Mr Dell left abruptly in apparent protest a few minutes before the briefing which was held at the Foreign Affairs boardroom at Munhumutapa Building in Harare.
He had asked an official from the ministry if ambassadors would be allowed to ask questions after the briefing and was told to wait for the minister.
However, Mr Dell walked out of the boardroom in a huff to the amazement of his colleagues.
His move was calculated to incite other ambassadors to boycott the briefing, which lasted about half an hour.
But ambassadors and representatives from other Western countries, including Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden, remained in attendance.

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U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 19, 2007

Question Taken at March 19, 2007 Daily Press Briefing

Zimbabwe: Crisis Update

Question: Did the Zimbabwe Foreign Minister summon foreign ambassadors and threaten to expel any who support opposition party members?

Answer: Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs Simbarashe Mumbengegwi today summoned Western diplomats for a briefing on the current situation. Mumbengegwi read a statement of the Government's position and issued a threat to foreign diplomats to remain quiet or face being declared persona non grata.

At the briefing, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Dell, sought assurances that the minister would provide diplomats an opportunity to respond. When the Ambassador did not receive these assurances, he departed refusing to participate in the Government's attempt to justify its recent brutality.

The United States will continue to speak and act steadfastly in support of the people of Zimbabwe's right to democracy.

2007/209
Released on March 19, 2007

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New York Times
Opposition in Zimbabwe Mounts, Says U.S. Diplomat

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 21, 2007

JOHANNESBURG, March 20 (AP) - The American ambassador to Zimbabwe said Tuesday that opposition to President Robert G. Mugabe had reached a tipping point because the people no longer feared the government and believed that they had nothing left to lose.
Zimbabwe's government and ruling party are in disarray and can no longer govern effectively, Ambassador Christopher Dell said in an interview. Growing numbers within the government and the ruling party, known as ZANU-PF, also want Mr. Mugabe to step down, he said.
Mr. Dell emphasized that he was not advocating or predicting a violent overthrow of the government, but noted that there was disaffection within the military and a split in the security forces. The economy is in free Fall and the people believe that the government is taking away their last hope, he said.
"The key new element in the equation that has become obvious over the past 10 to 12 days is the new spirit of resistance - some would say defiance - on the part of the people," the ambassador said. "The people have lost their willingness to go on; they are losing their fear," he added. "They believe they have nothing left to lose."

„Oh yes, that would be the way how a thriller-protagonist would talk, his interest must be to heat up the locals’s mood.
But get advice from a colleague if you want to know how an upheaval, to be triggered from outside, should be dramatized … Do you know the colleague Greene? ...“

Of course! We know Graham Greene’s QUIET AMERICAN, twice dramatized for cinema — that peculiar parable of failed Anglo-American understanding in Indochina in the middle of last century.
The French colonialists in Vietnam feel more and more the pressure by the Northern communists. In this situation, a young idealistic American befriends with an elderly disillusioned Briton and falls in love with the Briton’s Vietnamese life companion. Other than the American, the Briton believes he could remain neutral politically. But at the end he takes side.

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THE QUIET AMERICAN
adapted after a novel by Graham Greene
(U.S.A./AUS/D, 2002)
Director: Phillip Noyce
Duration: 101 Min.

The melodramatic triangle-story between a Briton, an American and a Vietnamese woman is tied together with the political development of the Indochina-war.
Phuong is symbolizing Vietnam as it is being courted by the old colonial power England and the new world power U.S.A. But Graham Greene’s protagonists are not simply three representative figures; they are three characters with all weaknesses and strength of human beings: the Vietnamese Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), the Englishman Fowler (Michael Caine) und the American Pyle (Brendan Fraser).
Whilst the naïve Pyle chooses to play with open cards in this ménage a trois, he is — driven by idealistic zeal — secretly busy on behalf of a U.S.-American secret service to cooperate with a Vietnamese warlord in order to stir hate against the communists. It is the beginning of American engagement in Vietnam. The U.S.-government is of the belief it should protect a people against communism and to help it to receive Western values like freedom and democracy. (Graham Greene turned out to be long-sighted because he published his novel in 1955.)
Against this background, the question is being tackled whether all means are allowed to reach your goal — politically and in the private sphere.
Fowler who is observing for the London TIMES political and military events in Vietnam tries to remain neutral. Later, when a French security-officer, called Vigot (Rade Serbedzija) investigates a case of murder, he will say:
„‘You can leave me out … I have nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with it‘, I repeated. That had always been my principal. With people as they are, whether they fought, whether they loved, whether they murdered: I did not want to be part of them. My colleagues of the press called themselves correspondents; I always preferred the term reporter. I wrote down what I saw. I did not act — even to have an opinion is a kind of act.“

„In your case, of course, it is not about a ‚Quiet American‘, but more about a ‚Shouting One‘. However, according to my judgement he can shout as much as he wants, his success will depend on the willingness of the media to go along with him, within the U.S.A. and internationally …“

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CABEL NEWS NETWORK (CNN)
1715 GMT (0115 HKT), March 20, 2007

As international condemnation of Zimbabwe mounts in response to crackdowns on opposition politicians and foreign diplomats, CNN anchor Michael Holmes spoke to the country's ambassador to the U.S. about the policies of President Robert Mugabe's government and the lack of press freedom.
Holmes: The Zimbabwe government is threatening to expel foreign diplomats in the wake of criticism over the treatment of political opponents. What are Western diplomats accused of doing?
Mapuranga: Thank you for inviting me to this program. When you become a diplomat, one of the things that you must do, and you have to do, is to read the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and that convention clearly states, it clearly stipulates that a diplomatic agent can not and should not interfere in the internal affairs of the host country. What the Western ambassadors have been doing in Zimbabwe is to team up with the opposition.
As you know, it all started when Tony Blair, the prime minister of Britain, in December 2003, and later in June 2005, while addressing the House of Commons, declared that his government's policy toward Zimbabwe is regime change, and this is why he has been pouring money into the coffers of the MDC [the opposition Movement for Democratic Change], through the Westminster Foundation, and the so-called Zimbabwe Democracy Trust, a body created to subvert the elected government of Zimbabwe.
Holmes: Well, if you have evidence of this, why have you not expelled anyone yet?
Mapuranga: Well, we believe that it has to manifest itself in deeds, and this is what has been happening now. And the minister of foreign affairs had a meeting with these ambassadors, and gave them a stern warning that if you tried to translate what you've been saying verbally, and if you translate it into deeds, the government will have no alternative but to expel you in terms of the Vienna Conventions.
Holmes: Well, you're saying the deeds have been committed. Why have their been no expulsions then?
Mapuranga: Well, the deeds have been committed. I think you are aware the buses have been burned. Police stations have been burned down by MDC thugs, and we would want to establish a clear connection between these deeds and the Western diplomats.
Holmes: You say opposition thugs. The government itself stands accused by the opposition of using, in the words of the opposition leader, hit squads, police hit squads, organized squads who are going out and attacking opposition leaders. And of course we have seen evidence of attacks on those opposition leaders. Is there a coordinated campaign to physically crackdown on opposition leaders in Zimbabwe?
Mapuranga: Well, we -- as you know, Zimbabwe became independent in 1980, and we have always been a multiparty state. There has always been an opposition in Zimbabwe. And we have been holding elections regularly, every five years, parliamentary elections, and every six years presidential elections, which were observed by the African Union, and before that the OAU and other regional organizations in Africa, and they've always said that these elections are free, and fair and reflect the will of the Zimbabwean people.
But now you have a situation where these people, the MDC leadership, because they have been losing these elections, are now turning to violence.
You heard them say that they are going to have the final push, and that they are going to overthrow Robert Mugabe. This is unconscionable.
Holmes: Ambassador, that's the government's view, and the opposition has its view.
Mapuranga: They have been saying it...
Holmes: Well, let me finish. The government has its view and the opposition has its view, which is that the Zimbabwean government is organizing crackdowns, physical crackdowns, assaults on its members and not allowing them to protest and the like.
Here's my question for you -- with your country in an economic meltdown and this political difficult carrying on, why do you not allow Western news organizations to report from your country? For example, CNN, we're not allowed to report from Zimbabwe. Why not? Will you allow us to do so?
Mapuranga: No, we will not allow you to do that, because the CNN and the BBC they champion the imperialist interests of the British and the Americans, so they are totally biased, and...
Holmes: How so? How so? Why don't you allow us to come in there and report on the ground? It's very difficult to report from outside the country, isn't it?
Mapuranga: Because you will be misleading the world, so we do not allow enemy agencies, like the CNN and the BBC to report on Zimbabwe.
Holmes: So CNN is an enemy agency?
Mapuranga: As far as they espouse the regime-change agenda of the United States government.
Holmes: Reporting the comments of other governments is not acting on their behalf; it's reporting.
Mapuranga: We have been monitoring CNN reports on Zimbabwe, BBC reports on Zimbabwe, and they're clearly hostile.
Holmes: So you're saying no. If I wanted to come down and do some feature stories from Zimbabwe the answer is no?
Mapuranga: Yes, the answer is no.
Holmes: Until when?
Mapuranga: Until the opposition in Zimbabwe has renounced violence, and until...
Holmes: What's that got to do with CNN?
Mapuranga: Until the British and the Americans abandon their policy of regime change.
Holmes: But what does that got to do with media organizations?
Mapuranga: Well, because the media organizations support these two governments. You may say that is not the case, but we know that is the case.
Holmes: How can you accuse media organizations, such as CNN and the BBC for that matter of this bias when you're on our air right now saying whatever it is you want to say?
Mapuranga: Oh, right now, I think you -- it is -- you have no choice, but to try and hear what the government is saying. But when we allow you to go into Zimbabwe, we know that your agenda is not a noble one.
Holmes: All right, we'll leave it there, ambassador. Thanks so much for your time. Appreciate it.
Mapuranga: Thank you.