Craig Murray (diplomat)

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Craig Murray (2006)

Craig John Murray (born October 17, 1958 in West Runton , Norfolk ) is a former British ambassador .

Career

In 1982 Murray graduated from the University of Dundee with a Master of Arts degree in contemporary history . In 1984 he joined the Foreign Service .

From August 2002 Murray was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan ; on October 14, 2004, the Guardian stripped of the "unconventional views" ambassador. He accuses the former Uzbek President Islom Karimov before the Human Rights hurting. Furthermore throws it both Uzbekistan and Russia before, the raw opium in Afghanistan , the world's main growing country for this drug to prepare in Afghan labs and at all border controls over by Jeep - columns via Uzbekistan and Russia's deep water port Saint Petersburg ship to worldwide customers to. Because the USA is the main consumer nation of this heroin , he also claims that the CIA and DEA are involved and not just the Russian FSB alone.

Murray criticized the CIA for the systematic use of torture in secret prisons in Uzbekistan and is considered a whistleblower from the British diplomatic corps. He repeatedly expressed open criticism of the Russian oligarch Alisher Burchanovich Usmanov .

At the end of September 2007, Murray's website was no longer accessible, whereupon it was relocated to the USA.

Awards

  • Sam Adams Award for Personal Integrity in Secret Service 2005; awarded by the "Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence".

Publications

  • Craig Murray: Murder in Samarkand . 2007, ISBN 1-84596-221-4 .
  • Craig Murray: Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror . Scribner, 2007, ISBN 1-4165-4801-7 .
  • Craig Murray: The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and other conflicts I have known . Atholl, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-9561299-0-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murray, Craig John. In: Who's Who. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ The envoy who said too much , The Guardian, July 15, 2004
  3. ^ Unrest in Uzbekistan and Michael Naumann: " Torture State America " - In: Die Zeit of November 29, 2005.
  4. ^ Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time, Craig Murray, Daily Mail, July 21, 2007
  5. ↑ Mundtot - Craig Murray's website taken offline by web host freace, September 26, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Murray, Craig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murray, Craig John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH West Runton , Norfolk , England , United Kingdom