{"id":838,"date":"2009-08-07T15:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2009-08-07T15:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:10:38","slug":"john-le-carre-please-call-your-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/john-le-carre-please-call-your-office\/","title":{"rendered":"John Le Carre, please call your office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a small country devoid of hills, the Netherlands certainly generates a lot of drama.\u00a0 Tomorrow&#8217;s <em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/hunt-for-the-mata-hari-princess-of-crooked-spies-20090807-ed0f.html?page=-1\" target=\"_blank\">has a fascinating story<\/a> about a good-looking Dutch spy who allegedly left the reservation, becoming a double- or maybe triple-agent, engaging in money-laundering, Middle-East real-estate scams,\u00a0and perhaps worse, and was held prisoner in her own flat in\u00a0Dubai\u00a0by other Dutch agents while her lawyers and their lawyers sought to reach a deal.\u00a0\u00a0 No deal reached, she is now in prison in Egypt for money-laundering and weapons-trading.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nYou\u00a0folks\u00a0in the back of the room will have trouple keeping up when the story includes successive paras like these:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dutch police observation teams had seen a woman in the company of a British man, Simon John &#8221;Slapper&#8221; Cowmeadow. Only later did they realise she was Karoum. Cowmeadow was shot dead in an Amsterdam street on November 18, 2007.<br \/>\nNadim Imac, a suspected heroin importer and the sponsor of a Dutch soccer team, Turkiyemspor, was thrown to his death from a moving bus on February 17 this year. Police found \u20ac223,000 in his home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a small country devoid of hills, the Netherlands certainly generates a lot of drama.\u00a0 Tomorrow&#8217;s Sydney Morning Herald has a fascinating story about a good-looking Dutch spy who allegedly left the reservation, becoming a double- or maybe triple-agent, engaging in money-laundering, Middle-East real-estate scams,\u00a0and perhaps worse, and was held prisoner in her own flat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-intelligence-and-espionage","category-post-industrial-nomads","p1","y2009","m08","d07","h15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}