There's some mention in the interview of the family's relation to Robert Woods Bliss. Lots of Ivy League-type ties going way back to the WWII era. Family looks "Oh So Social" at a glance. There's a good overview of the genesis of the Todd/Cabelly relationship here:
Once a rising star in Washington, now afraid to return to the U.S.
Gwenyth Todd was from a long line of American diplomats, bankers, spies and scholars going back to Revolutionary times. Her first 17 years had been spent following her father, Kenneth Thompson, a career diplomat, and mother, Eve Tyler, through embassies in Malta, Turkey, West Africa, England and Spain. Summers were spent at the family chateau in France.
But Washington was home. Her maternal grandfather, William Royall Tyler, had been an assistant secretary of state in the Kennedy administration and director of Dumbarton Oaks, the estate and center for Byzantine and pre-Columbian art studies. . .
Robert Cabelly had been an Africa expert in three administrations by the time he encountered Todd at a fashionable Washington seafood bistro. Now, in 1995, he was about to turn his inside connections into K Street gold as a lobbyist for oil-rich African regimes. . .
Her first client was Nuri Colakoglu, a Turkish steel and shipping magnate.
Unknown to Cabelly, she says, she began an affair with Colakoglu. And unknown to her, she says, Cabelly was getting into business with some of Africa’s worst despots, including Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, listed by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism.
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