Oscar Henry Brandon CBE (9 March 1916 – 20 April 1993) was a Czech-born British journalist employed by The Sunday Times, who worked for most of his career in Washington.
[4] It was ordered by the US president, Richard Nixon, that Brandon's phone be wiretapped in 1969, as, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "the extent of his political knowledge was so well known".
[3] After retiring from The Sunday Times, he became a guest scholar in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution from 1983 until his death.
[6] On March 15, 1939, the day the Germans occupied the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, 23-year-old Heinrich Brandeis, a student of world literature and art history at Charles University in Prague, rushed to Bratislava to visit his mother Ida.
[3] Brandon died at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, in Bloomsbury, on 20 April 1993.
[3] His body, accompanied by his family, was transferred from London to Bratislava on a special British government plane at the end of April 1993.