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          Perhaps most controversial of all, Smiley remained tight-lipped until his old age over his own involvement in the sabotage of Jewish refugee ships seeking to.

        1. Perhaps most controversial of all, Smiley remained tight-lipped until his old age over his own involvement in the sabotage of Jewish refugee ships seeking to.
        2. Xan Smiley, a former correspondent in Moscow and Washington, has been the Political Editor, the Europe Editor, and the Middle East and Africa Editor of The.
        3. Xan de Crespigny Smiley was born on 1 May He is the son of Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley and Moyra Eileen Montagu Douglas Scott.
        4. Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley, LVO, OBE, MC & Bar (11 April – 9 January ) was a British special forces and intelligence officer.
        5. In the hot bathwater was Xan Smiley, the son of a baronet, busy drawing maps in the condensation on the tiles.

          6. Xan de Crespigny Smiley was born on 1 May He is the son of Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley and Moyra Eileen Montagu Douglas Scott.!

          Xan Smiley

          Editor
          London, United Kingdom
          Biography

          Xan Smiley joined The Economist in 1983 as Middle East editor and became political editor and “Bagehot” columnist in 1992.

          In 1995 he became Europe editor, starting the “Charlemagne” column, and in October 2003 he became the Middle East and Africa Editor. Previously he was Washington correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph (1989-92), Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (1986-89), an editorial leader writer at The Times (1981-83), and the editor (and later co-owner) of Africa Confidential, a specialist newsletter.

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          English, French, Russian

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