attaché
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“It’s a five alarm emergency that’s dividing North America from Europe,” said John Foreman, a former U.K. defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Earlier this year, British diplomat Capt Adrian Coghill was given a week to leave Russia, days after the Russian defence attaché was expelled from London for alleged espionage as an "undeclared military intelligence officer".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024
The ministry summoned a British diplomat to inform him that the attaché had been declared “persona non grata,” according to a statement.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
The latest round of measures will boot the attaché, Maxim Elovik, a Russian colonel who the government termed an “undeclared military intelligence officer.”
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
For all his threats, he knew enough of the Secret Service department in the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin to know that in a fight against a Prussian military attaché he would stand but a poor chance.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson
Military attachés, too, from a variety of embassies are observing the drill from a viewing platform.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
More information would be provided at a briefing for military attachés, he added.
From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2022
In the early 1950s, the US government, in particular the Department of State and the CIA, tried using independent scientists as attachés — actually, spies.
From Nature ● Oct. 30, 2018
High-level defectors he reached for interviews described embassy officials and military attachés smuggling ivory from Angola, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as trafficking rhino horn from South Africa and Mozambique.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 16, 2017
After filling these questioners up with outlandish stories the attachés of the show decided to have a little fun at their expense.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. Coup
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