Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years

On August 1, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport for Kuala Lumpur but never made it there. Instead, it stopped to refuel in Kuwait, where Iraqi troops amassed on the border and captured the passengers and crew. This book reveals how an exchange of favors at the highest echelons of government and a secret, unaccountable organization authorized by Margaret Thatcher led to a deniable intelligence operation to sneak in intelligence offers into Kuwait aboard the flight. The plane was the Trojan Horse, and the plan has been lied about, denied, and covered up by successive British Governments, which has had a direct impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 336 pages
\n Publication date: 22 July 2021
\n Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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On August 1, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow Airport, bound for Kuala Lumpur. However, the flight never reached its destination, nor did its nearly 400 passengers. Instead, Flight 149 stopped to refuel in Kuwait, where Iraqi troops amassed on the border, leading to the passengers and crew being captured by Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army.

The question arises as to why British Airways Flight 149 proceeded with its plans to refuel in Kuwait City, despite all other flights being rerouted, and despite clear intelligence that Saddam was about to invade. The answer lies in an exchange of favors at the highest echelons of government and a secret, unaccountable organization authorized by Margaret Thatcher. This organization carried out a deniable intelligence operation to sneak a group of intelligence offers into Kuwait aboard the flight.

The plane itself was the Trojan Horse, and the plan, along with its horrific, traumatic consequences for the civilian passengers, has been lied about, denied, and covered up by successive British Governments ever since.

This explosive book, written with the full cooperation of the survivors and astonishing and conclusive input from a senior intelligence source, is a story of scandal, betrayal, and misuse of intelligence at the highest levels of the UK and US governments. It has had a direct, horrifying impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today. It is high time that the truth is told.

\n Weight: 540g\n
Dimension: 164 x 241 x 36 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781789464603\n \n