[…] de refusés, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Harold Pinter, Greg Palast, Edward Herman et al, have amassed a body of work that exposes NED orchestration of the failed coup against President Chávez in 2002, the 2004 coup against President Aristide of Haiti resulting in the slaughter of thousands of women, children and men, and similar […]
[…] the impact of strike action in the essential services, and were linked to rumours that elements in the military and intelligence establishment were contemplating some kind of coup to overthrow the minority Labour government which had taken up office in March 1974. This view was expressed at the time by Tony Benn (2) and […]
[…] British SAS troops fought alongside American “special forces”.’ Pilger’s footnote refers the reader to a section of William Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, on the Iran coup. But what are the ‘official records’ which tell us about ‘British and CIA terrorism’ in British Guiana in 1953? My initial reaction to this was, I […]
[…] ‘MI6, Bush and Foot and Mouth.’ (6) This begins with one of Logan’s most striking and most implausible claims: ‘The author, Gordon Logan, triggered the premature Moscow Coup of August 1991, that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union.’ Well, not according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he didn’t. In an interview […]
[…] great Guatemalan counter-terror of 1968-71, when some 50,000 people are estimated to have been killed. Aginter Press operatives were also present in Chile for the September 1973 coup. (102) The Portuguese coup of April 1974 forced the Aginter Press OAS operatives to abandon Lisbon (and their files) abruptly. Some of these French rightists plotted […]
[…] sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek- coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used in Australia […]
[…] but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, was, […]
[…] They have been building also between proponents of a non-violent transition to a more democratic civil society, and provocations that would suggest a possible intervention or even coup by some elements of the Indonesian Army. These same conditions in 1965 led to an army intervention, and a change of leadership accompanied by an army-backed […]
[…] 1957 MECAS 1959 TIAZ 1959 BAHREIN 1962 FO 1964 1ST SEC UK MISSION NEW YORK 1967 1ST SEC AND HOC AMMAN 1969 CONSUL GEN OMAN. INVOLVED IN COUP (F) 1971 FCO HEAD OF ACCOMMODATION AND SERVICES 1974 AMBASSADOR TO QATAR 1978 CONSUL GEN ATLANTA CRESSWELL, SIR MICHAEL JUSTIN KMCG (1960) CMG (52) B 21.9.09 […]
[…] 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 – […]
