Robert Bathurst
 Robert Bathurst  ( spook) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1927 | |||||||||||||||
| Died | 2000 (Age 73) | |||||||||||||||
| Victim of | •  premature death•  assassination? | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||||
Retired US spook who "died suddenly" when asking question about the The secret war against Sweden
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Robert B. Bathurst was a US academic and spook who was Chief U.S. Naval Intelligence Europe.[1][2] In retirement, he "died suddenly" when investigating the The secret war against Sweden.
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Background
He was born in 1927 and grew up in southern Missouri.[3]
Career
He had a career in the US Navy, including three years in Moscow, Soviet Union, 1957-1960.[3]
1969–1972 he was Chief of Naval Intelligence in London, where he regularly received information from US hydrophones installed in "neutral" Swedish waters.[4]
He taught at the Naval War College 1972-74.[3]
He also was at the Harvard Russian Research Center and at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California.
He was a fellow at the Hoover Institution[3]
After retirement, he was associated with the Peace Research Institute Oslo for a while, until 1996[5]. One of his colleagues was Ola Tunander.
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.[6]
References
- ↑ https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/do/search/?q=author%3A%22Robert%20B.%20Bathurst%22&start=0&context=11059874&facet=
- ↑ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Understanding_the_Soviet_navy-_a_handbook_%28IA_understandingsov00bath%29.pdf
- ↑ a b c d Robert Bathurst Intelligence and the mirror : on creating an enemy, foreword
- ↑ 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
