There was a secret deciphering office in London, a successor to the Post Office's foreign letter office, and another code-breaking unit in the Admiralty, both of which cracked Napoleon's codes, as did the bureau noir attached to every European government (though the Austrians reckoned their best intelligence came from the emperor's pillow talk).
But an internal Foreign Office letter shows officials were thrown into a quandary.
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Iraq Thursday delivered a letter from Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, which welcomed talks with Blix and his experts.
Earlier this year, ECB chief executive Tim Lamb said he had received a letter from Foreign secretary Jack Straw which was "tantamount to an instruction" not to tour Zimbabwe in November.
The dispute between Britain and Ecuador exploded when the British Foreign Office, in a letter to Ecuadorian officials, cited a little known law that could temporarily suspend the embassy's diplomatic protection and allow authorities to enter and arrest Assange.
This allowed the new business, once local-government approval was obtained in China, to accept foreign private-equity money invested into the overseas holding company, while abiding by the letter of Beijing's restrictions on foreign investment in domestic enterprises.
In mid-August, a couple of months after Mr Assange's arrival, the Ecuadorean government received a letter from the UK foreign office.
Annan received a letter from the Syrian Foreign Ministry with assurances from the government that it would adhere to the cease-fire, but it was also conditional.
Mr Mittal's associates confirm this version of events and insist that he did not solicit the letter from either the Foreign Office or No 10 Downing Street.
The letter from the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Naji Sabri, was sent to Mr Annan on Thursday inviting the chief inspector, Hans Blix, for what was called "technical talks".
Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca subsequently sent a letter to Hector Timerman, his Argentine counterpart, expressing his government's "deepest apologies".
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He said he had yet to receive a reply to a letter he wrote to UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw four weeks ago on behalf of the British detainees.
Last week, Iran's nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, sent a letter to the EU's foreign-policy chief, Catherine Ashton, calling for an immediate resumption of talks without preconditions.
At a news conference in Quito on Wednesday, Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, said a letter from the UK government had been delivered through a British embassy official.
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Last week, Indiana Senator and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar wrote a letter to US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, urging the State Department do more to help American families bring their children home, specifically citing the families adopting children from Vietnam.
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Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, and Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign-policy supremo, sent him a stern letter.
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Welsh sent a letter to all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 27, detailing his charges.
U.S. officials say a letter sent tothe European Union's foreign-policy chief represents one of the least equivocal offers to negotiate Iran has ever made a declaration that it is ready to talk with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, the group the outside world has designated to handle talks.
Over the next 12 months, I wrote to the Albanian Foreign Ministry twenty times - I sent them telexes, letter etc. and was completely ignored.
The letter calls attention to concerns that Britain's foreign policy is fueling militancy among young British Muslims.
The Times report describes a letter recently sent by a coalition of funds to the following foreign oil companies doing business in Iran: Royal Dutch Shell, Total of France, Repsol of Spain, Eni of Italy, Gazprom of Russia, the China National Petroleum Corporation, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India and Inpex Corporation of Japan.
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Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell told Radio 4's Today Programme the letter came from experts in their field.
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"Because sequestration calls for across-the-board cuts, the FBI would be required to do less in all its programs, including against Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups, as well as the growing and sophisticated threats from cyber attacks, foreign intelligence, and national and transnational criminal activities, " Mueller's letter warned.
In mid-June, as the White House was drafting the President's Middle East policy speech, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met with Bush and handed him a letter from his uncle Abdullah urging the U.S. to promote a "clear vision" in the speech, including geographical boundaries and a timetable for Palestinian statehood.
Foreign Office and British Trade International officials say they checked the matter and drafted a letter for Mr Blair to sign.
The Center's announcement today follows its organization last month of a powerful open letter to Congress signed by dozens of America 's most accomplished defense and foreign policy practitioners extolling Amb.
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Joshua Mandel (who knows a thing or two about Iran from his recently completed combat tour as a Marine in Iraq) and Shannon Jones, Reinsch circulated a letter warning the bill "would broadly and indiscriminately harm U.S. and foreign companies as well as individual pensioners" in Ohio.
On Tuesday, he sent a letter to Netanyahu in which he demanded that the premier drop discussion of a Knesset bill that would restrict foreign governmental funding of Israeli-registered political NGOs.
In February Charlie McCreevy, the new European commissioner for markets, duly wrote a letter to the Bank of Italy's governor, Antonio Fazio, asking him what he thought about foreign ownership of Italian banks.
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