Paid to Predict: Duplicity, Deceit and Dishonesty among 'Allies'

Description

In 1993 Ewen Southby-Tailyour joined the British Foreign Office for duties with the European Community Monitoring Mission. He was also tasked, informally, by MI6 to report on a few characters. Monitoring the cease-fire violations along the Confrontation Line between Croatia and the Republic of Serbian Krajina plus the humanitarian and economic issues for the regeneration of Dalmatia were professionally satisfying; as were a covert beach reconnaissance, interviewing war criminals and pacing the length of a 'secret' airfield that was eventually used by US Predator unmanned surveillance aircraft to support Croatia's ethnic cleansing of all Serbs from Krajina. Closing in on hard evidence that Germany and the US were breaking UN Arms Embargo 713 the author was caught in the diplomatic cross-fire between the Greeks, who supported Serbia and the French who supported Croatia. To prevent the French knowing of any illicit arms embargo he was order by the Greeks to falsify his reports. He resigned from the mission. This is a thought-provoking, disturbing tale of deceit and duplicity between European countries (and, notably, the US) all supposedly supporting a common cause-peace in the Balkans-but, in effect, helping to ethnically cleanse 200,000 Serbs from their 500 year-old homeland.

Ewen Southby-Tailyour was commissioned into the Royal Marines in 1960. Awarded the Sultan of Oman's Bravery Medal during the Dhofar War he was then appointed an OBE for the Falklands campaign and, in 1982, was elected the British Yachtsman of the Year. Following retirement, in 1993 he was employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and MI6, for duties in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. He resigned the next year as he refused to falsify his daily reports covering the alleged breaking of UN Arms Embargo 713 by, inter alia, Germany and the United States. This is his 16th book.