Send us a text Iain Craigie and daughter Jane revisit Cyprus after over 50 years. The island is now divided between the Greek and Turkish ruled areas, after separation in 1974. The island remains strategically hugely important, given its location in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and the unrest in the middle east. Iain and Jane, also visited Famagusta, where the Craigies lived in the late 1960s. As part of one of these visits they went to Varosha, the ghost town where Greek famil...
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Send us a text Iain Craigie and daughter Jane revisit Cyprus after over 50 years. The island is now divided between the Greek and Turkish ruled areas, after separation in 1974. The island remains strategically hugely important, given its location in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and the unrest in the middle east. Iain and Jane, also visited Famagusta, where the Craigies lived in the late 1960s. As part of one of these visits they went to Varosha, the ghost town where Greek famil...
Turkey in the 1970s - Istanbul, Gallipoli and the Black Sea coast
The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
54 minutes
5 years ago
Turkey in the 1970s - Istanbul, Gallipoli and the Black Sea coast
Send us a text This episode capture the conversation between Jane Craigie and her father, Iain Craigie, about three precious years based in Istanbul in the 1970s. Iain’s time was as a more senior intelligence manager with GCHQ, their ‘target’ was Russia. Iain explains the start of using satellites for intelligence gathering - courtesy of the Americans who owned them. Discussions include how the British diplomatic service viewed British intelligence in postings like Turkey where there was so m...
The Spy Who Raised Me Podcast
Send us a text Iain Craigie and daughter Jane revisit Cyprus after over 50 years. The island is now divided between the Greek and Turkish ruled areas, after separation in 1974. The island remains strategically hugely important, given its location in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and the unrest in the middle east. Iain and Jane, also visited Famagusta, where the Craigies lived in the late 1960s. As part of one of these visits they went to Varosha, the ghost town where Greek famil...
