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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, that would make sense. I've never thought that way. Aegean cities of Turkey might be worth considering in that case.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 1d

OK, Turkey experts, oil experts, historians, sleuths. I'm looking at a 1945 US intelligence document about a clandestine source in "Oil City." This source is being paid in Turkish lira. What do you think Oil City is and why?

I do not know the answer to this.

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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social · 1d

I would look at Batman (yes, a real city in Turkey!). I think the first refinery was created in 40s there which is consistent with your discovery. But the issue is Batman officially became a ‘city’ in 1990. Perhaps @mesutuyar.bsky.social may have a guess.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) @kcsi.uk · 12d

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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social · Jul 24

This sounds amazing!

Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · Jul 24

On a related note, I'm presently involved in cataloging a very large library of intelligence-related books (not belonging to me) and I'm amazed by how many CIA memoirs have been self-published or published by small presses and then forgotten. Someday maybe I'll put together a bibliography of these.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · Jul 24

Despite working on US intelligence in World War I off and on since 2006 and despite the fact that I'm slowly writing a journal article on memoirs of American intelligence veterans (all of them), I learned today of the existence of such a memoir that was entirely new to me. #research? #serendipity!

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King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) @kcsi.uk · Jul 21

🚨Publication alert🚨 Our latest Insights piece by Satoshi Yoda - about Cold War operations in Japan - is out now: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

From Langley to Tokyo: The JFK Assassination Files and Communist…

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · May 31

My third book. All published by Oxford University Press.

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Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social · Apr 26

"Best Gallipoli books from a Turkish perspective?
Here are five essential works in English."
littlegully.com/blog/best-ga...

Best Gallipoli books from a Turkish perspective

The Ottoman view revealed: Five essential books in English offering rare insight into the Turkish experience at Gallipoli.

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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thanks, Gill! Interestingly, the memorandum was penned immediately after a meeting attended by the representatives of the Admiralty and WO. So, both names could be possible, but Dallas is the most plausible person.

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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thanks very much Jock! Yes, Alister seems to be the most likely author of this memo because it was produced by the WO about the Ottoman Empire.

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