Robert Bathurst
| Robert Bathurst (Spook) | |
|---|---|
| File:Robert Bathurst.png | |
| Born | 1927 |
| Died | 2000 |
| Victim of | premature death, assassination? |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
Retired US spook who "died suddenly" when asking too many probing questions about the The secret war against Sweden | |
Robert B. Bathurst was a US academic and spook who was chief of Naval Intelligence Europe 1969-72[1] In retirement, he "died suddenly" when asking too many probing questions about the The secret war against Sweden.
Education
He was born in 1927 and grew up in southern Missouri.[2] He took a degree in psychology and literature from Northwestern University, graduating in 1952. He received a certificate in Slavonic Studies from the NATO School Oberammergau in 1963. He also took a degree in comparative literature from Brown University in 1977.
Career
Bathurst was interpreter between Nikita Khrushchev and President Eisenhower at Camp David in 1959. He led the Russian language group in the US Navy, and in 1963, after the Cuban Missile Crisis, became responsible for the hotline between the White House and Moscow (actually between the Pentagon and Moscow with a link to the White House).[3]
He was the night officer in Pentagon in August 1964 during he "Gulf of Tonkin Incident" which became the pretext for the escalation of the US war against Vietnam. He called the Chief of Naval Operations in the middle of the night, but he was unaware of the fact that this was false information.[3]
He next became Assistant Naval Attaché in Moscow 1964-67.[3]
Bathurst then was appointed the Defense Department's head of Attaché Affairs Eastern Europe 1967-69, and then chief of Naval Intelligence Europe[4] 1969-72, where he regularly received information from US hydrophones installed in "neutral" Swedish waters after a secret deal made between Bobby Ray Inman and the Swedish government[5].
He held the Admiral Layton Chair of Intelligence at the Naval War College 1972-75[2] under its president, Admiral Stansfield Turner, and at the Coast Guard Academy 1975-78.
He also taught at the Harvard Russian Research Center 1979-81 and at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California. He was a fellow at the Hoover Institution 1989-90[2]
He moved to Oslo with his Norwegian wife in 1990. After retirement, Ola Tunander recruited him to the Peace Research Institute Oslo, where he was until 1996, writing his book, Intelligence and the Mirror: On Creating an Enemy[6][3].
Death
Tunander wrote how:
A couple of weeks after the SVT interview with Caspar Weinberger in March 2000, my friend Robert Bathurst, a former Chief U.S. Naval Intelligence Europe, brought my transcript of the whole interview to his former colleagues at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey...Robert asked them who had organized these operations in Swedish waters that Weinberger had spoken about. They spoke with Weinberger's Military Assistant, Vice Admiral Donald Jones, a former deputy for Naval Intelligence and an "Inman protégé", as Casey had called him. Robert's colleagues came back to him and said: 'Don't touch it. It's physically dangerous'. In May, after returning from the U.S., Robert told me about it. He had an e-mail contact with a retired U.S. Navy Intelligence officer and with an officer from the U.S. Navy SEALs. Robert wrote: 'I am trying to help a colleague, a Swedish Researcher […] If it is too sensitive, I drop it'. A couple of weeks later, in June, he died. He did not wake up in the morning when his wife was going to serve him tea. It seems to have been a system to take out people revealing highly classified matters, as the Norwegian intelligence chief had said.[7]
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References
- ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Understanding_the_Soviet_navy-_a_handbook_%28IA_understandingsov00bath%29.pdf
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Robert Bathurst Intelligence and the mirror : on creating an enemy, foreword
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 https://olatunander.substack.com/p/an-underwater-u-2-part-iii
- ↑ formally Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, US Naval Forces Europe
- ↑ https://www.historisktidskrift.se/index.php/june20/article/download/183/142/329
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210511034926/https://www.prio.org/People/Person/?x=5095
- ↑ https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-661