Sacked envoy accuses FO of sex slurs

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London Evening Standard
By Jason Beattie, Evening Standard Political Correspondent
15 October 2004

A British ambassador today accused the Foreign Office of mounting an extraordinary sex smear to drive him from his job.

Craig Murray, 45, the former British envoy to Uzbekistan, said senior Foreign Office officials concocted false allegations against him because he spoke out against human rights abuses in the country.

The trumped-up charges included claims he had sold passports for sex and was too drunk to work.
Mr Murray, dismissed from his post yesterday, said the "ploy" to force him out led to a nervous breakdown and left him with serious health problems. He claimed the smears were authorised at "senior levels of the Foreign Office".

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[Kagemusha]

1. These claims are not new. Though they matter a bit more now.

But the guy was just unable to kiss jackboot enough for Britain's national interest.

[othermeans]

2. This is the same guy who said we (coalition) were obtaining info

from torture after we sent prisoners to Uzbekistan for questioning.