The Egyptians

According to the published account of a certain Josef Frolík, escapee from the Czechoslovak Secret Service, Charles Jordan was murdered at the Egyptian Embassy in Prague. I have researched this claim at length, and got convinced that the so-called Frolík book is nothing but a CIA plant serving a whole plethora of purposes but telling us the truth about what happened to Charlie.

Nevertheless, I tried to get as much information about the Egyptian embassy in Prague as possible. I tried to contact all the former Czechoslovak spies at the Egyptian embassy. The most interesting potential sources have unfortunately passed away before my inquiries, but... a year or two after my initial contact one of their widows called me and offered me her husband's "photo collection". In exchange for money, of course.

I am now a proud owner of almost two thousand color photographs and slides from the Egyptian embassy in Prague, taken between 1957 and 1967. Unfortunately, I have no idea who is who. I can identify the photographer and his wife, one of the ambassadors, Magdi Hassanein, and some of the Russian colonels. Maybe somewhere in the crowd are also people connected to the Esplanade hotel, place where Charlie stayed at the time of his death: namely Ihsan Mohammed Talaat, head of the United Arab Airlines office and second secretary of the Embassy, and his lover Jiřina Švandová - Hellimanová. Those two may have played some role in the real story of Charlie's death. But I would not know who they are, because I have never seen their faces.

Nevertheless the pictures are so beautiful - and look so much like from a 1960ies spy thriller - that I decided to share a select few with you. Maybe one day I will use them for something.