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The long history of US spy bases in Britain

THE news about the diplomatic status of the US citizen Anne Sacoolas has concentrated on the campaign of the parents of Harry Dunn, a 19-year-old British man who died following a road traffic collision on August 27 outside the secretive US air force base at RAF Croughton. 

What has received less attention in the mainstream media is the nature of the operations at RAF Croughton, the secretive aspect of her husband’s work and the way Britain is being used as Washington’s forward Atlantic military base. 

RAF Croughton is in fact run by the US air force and is patrolled by armed US marines. 

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