This article Attilio Bolzoni, based on the research of Mario J. Cereghino in the British National Archives, was released on January 25, 2009 Republic. Relating to the interest of London on the mental health of Gaddafi. For years he wondered if he were crazy. All to investigate on his psyche, his sudden outbursts of anger, paranoia and melancholy.
Mental health of the rais of Tripoli, the lights of His Majesty's summit and spend a ton of secret reports. The coup of September 1, 1969 catches them by surprise and I can not figure out who he really is, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader again, there is little reliable information, not yet thirty years old, comes from the sands of Sirte , his idol is the Egyptian President Nasser.
From the shelves of the National Archives in Kew Gardens - not far from London - re-emerge cards and information from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on one of the most controversial of the twentieth century. Files are "secret" and "confidential", many of them published between 2002 and 2007.
The mysterious figure at the head of the Revolutionary Council of Libya is obsessively controlled by the British Legation spread between Rabat and Baghdad, studied, analyzed, eviscerated in every detail. All the news that the British collected between fall '69 and spring '72 reflected a growing yearning for the "madness" of Gaddafi, taken for granted by many sources.
The papers speak of hospitalization. Frequent tantrums. Even a suicide attempt. Someone at the Foreign Office even dare predict the future and comes to the enigmatic Colonel predict the imminent end of politics. The first document that lists his name is a telegram (issue Fco 39/386), shipped from Benghazi September 10, 1969.
The signature of Wakefield, a career diplomat, "is to be hoped that the current wave of adulation against him will give him the head." But it's only Sept. 19 that an official of the Foreign Office, DJ Speares, send the British Embassy in Tehran, some information about his identity, "was born in '42 in Sirte, he graduated in history in '63, was released from 'military academy in '65 and has undergone military training in England in the summer of '66.
" In the days after the information is cross frantically. Everyone wants to know more about the young officer in the coming decades will be the number one enemy of the West. He writes in London on 11 September (Fco 39/380) PJ Popplewell Embassy in Cairo, "is very religious, a brilliant officer, always cheerful, conscientious and hard worker.
It 's a football fan and well-read ". A new tab on the personality of Colonel Gaddafi "is broadcast on 8 October 70 from Tripoli to London. is a document (Fco 39/614) compiled by DA Gore-Booth and declassified in 2001. Begins: "Little is known of his past, he says that his father is a nomad who has some camels in the desert of Sirte.
Rumor has it that Gaddafi has been a difficult student at Sheba, and that have also expelled from school of that city. He has great qualities as a leader and during the course of military training in England was described by its commander as "an asset to the Libyan army". The diplomat digs in his personality: "While it is good looking and has a nice smile, has nothing of the ability of political nature.
In front of the crowd finds it difficult to change the tone tends to be repetitive in public discourse, its eloquently recalls the flurry of a machine gun. His physique betrays the malnutrition suffered in his youth and his passionate sincerity can touch fanaticism. " The British Embassy in Tripoli are starting to move the first suspect for his intolerance and anger, "is poorly responsive to criticism ...".
is a report from Kuwait City (Fco 39/622) that puts on those who go beyond the British: "The Kuwaitis are wary of Gaddafi. The army chief said it was crazy: just look into his eyes." Since then a succession of news on the mental state of the rais. Dispatches that as of 10 December '70, signed by Michael Hannam British Embassy in Tripoli: "In presenting to the Arabs as the new messiah, Gaddafi borders on madness.
His removal from the scene and the Libyan Arab can not be far away. "Note that as of 21 January '71, signed by JP Tripp:" We have already announced a year ago that the sanity of Gaddafi was suspect. Now he had another collapse, after which remained out of action for four days. We believe that we have not fully recovered and risk a total collapse.
"Information such as the January 27 '71 (Fco 39/802) of MI Goulding Embassy in Cairo:" I spoke with Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad, a former private secretary Egyptian President Nasser. She said that the irritability and excitability of Gaddafi are probably due to an allergy. Muhammad did not specify the symptoms, but added that the colonel seems to suffer from allergies to certain flowers.
In Cairo he undergoes some tests. "On March 17, '71 another British diplomat stationed in the Egyptian capital, Beaumont, sent to London a sensational news. He writes:" According to a report received from a fellow Belgian, Qaddafi is now interned in a private clinic for mental illness in the neighborhood of Cairo.
"But after a few days Colonel reappears, disappears again, spent a month and go back again in the crowd. The British agents are confused. On September 27, '71 , at 14, Michael Hannam from Tripoli informs London that Gaddafi "would be injured in an automobile accident Sept. 18." A few minutes later sends another message: "It is not yet appeared in public.
And the statements by the Minister of Information Buasir have failed to dispel the rumors that Gaddafi had suffered a nervous breakdown and even that may have resigned." Two days later, reports: "In Tripoli continue to circulate rumors about him. According to the Germans was last seen driving his car, diplomats in New Delhi say instead that he attempted suicide.
In any case no one has more recently seen in public. " At 8.50 on 2 October '71 Beaumont, from Cairo, said in London the news circulating in the Egyptian government circles, "Gaddafi would have been very shaken by the incident happened Sept. 18 car last year, during which five men of his entourage were killed and eight wounded.
All this before his eyes. The incident would set off one of its periodic bouts of nerves. " But on Oct. 4 will inform the Foreign Office that "Gaddafi has just arrived in Cairo and seems in good health." when it is already October 7 - Beaumont still - in London writes: "This visit is made to the military hospital in Cairo for his sinusitis.
In the tissue found in Kew Gardens is the report of a shadowing day. The Colonel returned to his Tripoli and three weeks later, on October 28, the new airport receives Egyptian President Sadat. The English look closely and say: "Walk like a sleepwalker." News that makes the atmosphere even more tense arriving from Paris on November 19.
is the diplomat JN Spreckley reveals that the Foreign Office: "I saw De Warren, told me that seems to have been a new attempt to kill Gaddafi: a bomb was found aboard his flight home from Cairo ... fortunately for the bomb did not fire him. " He adds: "It seems to be more nervous than usual.
The French are convinced that following the likely attack that killed several members of his escort, Gaddafi has had yet another nervous breakdown and has undergone medical treatment for three weeks ". At the end of 1971 the English updates the "staff" of the rais. The file is listed Fco 39/805 "is frighteningly thin, with permanent scars on the forehead and around his neck.
In public, he smiles often, but when he is tired or under pressure, stiff shoulders and arms." The dossier on the Libyan leader will be enriched with new details on his "sanity" to the Seventies. On June 22, '72 embassy in Tripoli, reports: "There is a kind of crazy logic in everything he says and does.
But, of course, his logic is not ours." On 29 January '76, on the eve of the proclamation of the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Socialist People ", GH Boyce writes (issue Fco 93/828) from Tripoli to Foreign Office: "Gaddafi is often more like Mussolini than Nasser." 
Mental health of the rais of Tripoli, the lights of His Majesty's summit and spend a ton of secret reports. The coup of September 1, 1969 catches them by surprise and I can not figure out who he really is, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader again, there is little reliable information, not yet thirty years old, comes from the sands of Sirte , his idol is the Egyptian President Nasser.
From the shelves of the National Archives in Kew Gardens - not far from London - re-emerge cards and information from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on one of the most controversial of the twentieth century. Files are "secret" and "confidential", many of them published between 2002 and 2007.
The mysterious figure at the head of the Revolutionary Council of Libya is obsessively controlled by the British Legation spread between Rabat and Baghdad, studied, analyzed, eviscerated in every detail. All the news that the British collected between fall '69 and spring '72 reflected a growing yearning for the "madness" of Gaddafi, taken for granted by many sources.
The papers speak of hospitalization. Frequent tantrums. Even a suicide attempt. Someone at the Foreign Office even dare predict the future and comes to the enigmatic Colonel predict the imminent end of politics. The first document that lists his name is a telegram (issue Fco 39/386), shipped from Benghazi September 10, 1969.
The signature of Wakefield, a career diplomat, "is to be hoped that the current wave of adulation against him will give him the head." But it's only Sept. 19 that an official of the Foreign Office, DJ Speares, send the British Embassy in Tehran, some information about his identity, "was born in '42 in Sirte, he graduated in history in '63, was released from 'military academy in '65 and has undergone military training in England in the summer of '66.
" In the days after the information is cross frantically. Everyone wants to know more about the young officer in the coming decades will be the number one enemy of the West. He writes in London on 11 September (Fco 39/380) PJ Popplewell Embassy in Cairo, "is very religious, a brilliant officer, always cheerful, conscientious and hard worker.
It 's a football fan and well-read ". A new tab on the personality of Colonel Gaddafi "is broadcast on 8 October 70 from Tripoli to London. is a document (Fco 39/614) compiled by DA Gore-Booth and declassified in 2001. Begins: "Little is known of his past, he says that his father is a nomad who has some camels in the desert of Sirte.
Rumor has it that Gaddafi has been a difficult student at Sheba, and that have also expelled from school of that city. He has great qualities as a leader and during the course of military training in England was described by its commander as "an asset to the Libyan army". The diplomat digs in his personality: "While it is good looking and has a nice smile, has nothing of the ability of political nature.
In front of the crowd finds it difficult to change the tone tends to be repetitive in public discourse, its eloquently recalls the flurry of a machine gun. His physique betrays the malnutrition suffered in his youth and his passionate sincerity can touch fanaticism. " The British Embassy in Tripoli are starting to move the first suspect for his intolerance and anger, "is poorly responsive to criticism ...".
is a report from Kuwait City (Fco 39/622) that puts on those who go beyond the British: "The Kuwaitis are wary of Gaddafi. The army chief said it was crazy: just look into his eyes." Since then a succession of news on the mental state of the rais. Dispatches that as of 10 December '70, signed by Michael Hannam British Embassy in Tripoli: "In presenting to the Arabs as the new messiah, Gaddafi borders on madness.
His removal from the scene and the Libyan Arab can not be far away. "Note that as of 21 January '71, signed by JP Tripp:" We have already announced a year ago that the sanity of Gaddafi was suspect. Now he had another collapse, after which remained out of action for four days. We believe that we have not fully recovered and risk a total collapse.
"Information such as the January 27 '71 (Fco 39/802) of MI Goulding Embassy in Cairo:" I spoke with Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad, a former private secretary Egyptian President Nasser. She said that the irritability and excitability of Gaddafi are probably due to an allergy. Muhammad did not specify the symptoms, but added that the colonel seems to suffer from allergies to certain flowers.
In Cairo he undergoes some tests. "On March 17, '71 another British diplomat stationed in the Egyptian capital, Beaumont, sent to London a sensational news. He writes:" According to a report received from a fellow Belgian, Qaddafi is now interned in a private clinic for mental illness in the neighborhood of Cairo.
"But after a few days Colonel reappears, disappears again, spent a month and go back again in the crowd. The British agents are confused. On September 27, '71 , at 14, Michael Hannam from Tripoli informs London that Gaddafi "would be injured in an automobile accident Sept. 18." A few minutes later sends another message: "It is not yet appeared in public.
And the statements by the Minister of Information Buasir have failed to dispel the rumors that Gaddafi had suffered a nervous breakdown and even that may have resigned." Two days later, reports: "In Tripoli continue to circulate rumors about him. According to the Germans was last seen driving his car, diplomats in New Delhi say instead that he attempted suicide.
In any case no one has more recently seen in public. " At 8.50 on 2 October '71 Beaumont, from Cairo, said in London the news circulating in the Egyptian government circles, "Gaddafi would have been very shaken by the incident happened Sept. 18 car last year, during which five men of his entourage were killed and eight wounded.
All this before his eyes. The incident would set off one of its periodic bouts of nerves. " But on Oct. 4 will inform the Foreign Office that "Gaddafi has just arrived in Cairo and seems in good health." when it is already October 7 - Beaumont still - in London writes: "This visit is made to the military hospital in Cairo for his sinusitis.
In the tissue found in Kew Gardens is the report of a shadowing day. The Colonel returned to his Tripoli and three weeks later, on October 28, the new airport receives Egyptian President Sadat. The English look closely and say: "Walk like a sleepwalker." News that makes the atmosphere even more tense arriving from Paris on November 19.
is the diplomat JN Spreckley reveals that the Foreign Office: "I saw De Warren, told me that seems to have been a new attempt to kill Gaddafi: a bomb was found aboard his flight home from Cairo ... fortunately for the bomb did not fire him. " He adds: "It seems to be more nervous than usual.
The French are convinced that following the likely attack that killed several members of his escort, Gaddafi has had yet another nervous breakdown and has undergone medical treatment for three weeks ". At the end of 1971 the English updates the "staff" of the rais. The file is listed Fco 39/805 "is frighteningly thin, with permanent scars on the forehead and around his neck.
In public, he smiles often, but when he is tired or under pressure, stiff shoulders and arms." The dossier on the Libyan leader will be enriched with new details on his "sanity" to the Seventies. On June 22, '72 embassy in Tripoli, reports: "There is a kind of crazy logic in everything he says and does.
But, of course, his logic is not ours." On 29 January '76, on the eve of the proclamation of the Great Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Socialist People ", GH Boyce writes (issue Fco 93/828) from Tripoli to Foreign Office: "Gaddafi is often more like Mussolini than Nasser."
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