[joonbug]

Wonder if he was a diplomat or a spook? "Foley" is the name of the spooks in the Tom Clancy novels (not that that's related, only interesting).

[kcvl]

I can't find anything on Lawrence Foley, so who knows?!

[BlackVeil]

Spook names do run in series. The Clancy novel is not necessarily a comic source. There have been a whole lot of incidents in 20th c history which no one could write about, as straight history, so they have appeared as fiction. (I am flagging you Jeff, as you might have a comment on that.)

Those intelligence people live in a world of their own. Unbelievably, in Kim Philby's generation, there were lots of operators who used "Kim" as a codename. Maybe because of the influence of Kipling's novel. However it was Philby's real name, given to him by his father StJohn Philby, (Arabist and Islamic convert) who also was involved in Brit intelligence.

[Semper911]

Wonder if he was a diplomat or a spook?

Very few "diplomats" are not associated with CIA, although some are not. I raced through this story to find the name of the victim because I know someone who "works for the State Department" (wink wink) and is currently assigned to Jordan.

Sorry about Mr. Foley, but I was relieved to find out that it was not my friend.