[…] to shame. He should also be given credit for quoting KGB files, in so doing discarding cold war paranoia (still prevalent if the official reaction to Costello’s coup is any guide) in the cause of sound scholarship. Despite all this it is difficult to avoid finishing the book without feeling disappointed. There are some […]
[…] a meeting in Rome with his MI6 contact in February 1957. Between then and the following November Khalil was given a total of £162,500 to finance a coup and restore the monarchy. This was terminated on “23 rd December when Nasser announced the existence of the ‘restoration plot’ – as it became known – […]
[…] Kirk died while we were still digesting the Watergate scandals, before the major Watergate-related disclosures about CIA dirty work and assassinations, and before the CIA- assisted “Kerr coup’ against Gough Whitlam in Australia. Even so, many people close to Kirk believed he was murdered. He was a very sick man, certainly, but he should […]
[…] 1953-55 FO 1956-58 BONN 1959 COUNSELLOR CAIRO 1963 COUNSELLOR FO 1967 AMBASSADOR KUWAIT 1968 UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO 1970 POLITICAL RESIDENT IN PERSIAN GULF INVOLVED IN COUP OMAN (OMAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY JE PETERSON LONDON 1978) 1972 VISITING FCO FELLOW ST ANTONY’S COLL OXFORD 1973 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO 1975 […]
[…] had rebelled against Eve Balfour and her aristocratic cronies, established the more vigorous and practical organisations, the Organic Growers Association and British Organic Farmers; and staged a coup within the Soil Association which revitalised it and made it more relevant to the late-twentieth century. Some of the leading figures – Peter Segger and Dr. […]
[…] only paper to give any prominence to the programme was The Daily Mail, whose two-page spread on March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of […]
[…] witnessed first-hand the contacts of the domestic party with foreign powers.’ It was ‘virtual control of the American CP…..too valuable to be sacrificed for a public relations coup.’ (p. 38) In the UK, as Peter Wright first told us in Spycatcher, something similar pertained: MI5 knew who the conduit to Moscow was and allowed […]
[…] liberal. The CIA and its allies in the mass media toppled Nixon only to lose the estimates war in the long run anyway. Watergate wasn’t really a coup d’etat as some, notably Coulson, have suggested. Hougan’s point that the CIA could hardly have predicted the fall of Nixon has to be considered, but there […]
[…] investment came from Harvard University’s endowment fund, on whose board of directors sat an old Bush family friend, Robert Stone Jnr. Then in 1990 came Harken’s biggest coup – winning a Bahrain deal against bids from oil giants Amoco and Chevron. This was despite the fact that Harken had never been engaged in international […]
[…] make a deal with the left-of-centre PRD (Partido Democratico Revolucionario)? Or by rival politicians from Baja California? Was his murder a warning from the drug cartels? A coup covertly sponsored by the military? Could the Americans be involved? Their economic stake in Mexico is enormous, and the United States has not been shy about […]
