[…] hope to desperate men. Moscow promised not to invade Poland if the Church could dampen the struggle (and, presumably, give the Polish Stalinists time to organise the coup). Some Grey Wolves came to believe that if the infidel Pope would not inflame anti-communist revolt, it would be better if he was assassinated in a […]
[…] he could implement detente with Castro and reform the Agency in the wake of the Bay of Pigs disaster. The Warren Commission attempted to conceal this treasonous coup behind the lone gunman theory but the truth was smoked out by New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison in his abortive prosecution of Clay Shaw. Garrison was […]
[…] the left. His very interesting article on the CIA (and wider American) role in the politics of the Soviet bloc countries post 1991, ‘The Technique of a coup d’etat’, ends with this sentence: ‘But, after Marshall’s exposé of the reality behind the almost identical events in Serbia, there can be no doubt that the […]
[…] institutions of popular power and workers control, and repressing the revolutionary left. The moment of realisation occurred in May 1937 in Barcelona when the Communists staged their coup against anarchist control of the city. Up to then Orwell had been determined to transfer from the POUM militia to the Communist-controlled International Brigades. Now he […]
[…] Axis Tripartite Pact, Ribbentrop had assured Yugoslavia that Germany would respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. On March 27, 1941, he attended the meeting, held after the coup d’état in Yugoslavia, at which plans were made to carry out Hitler’s announced intention to destroy Yugoslavia.’ (4) There was also limited evidence against Ribbentrop in […]
[…] and this spiel of his on Chile looks very much like an intelligence briefing – maybe even one of those distributed at the time of the Chile coup when Neil was working for the Economist, a regular outlet for IRD briefings. Tom Spencer MEP, RIP About a month before the political demise of the […]
[…] Then Kennedy had to face down the military over Cuba. No wonder Kennedy let John Frankenheimer use the White House to shoot his movie about a military coup, 7 Days in May. Finally: readers of a delicate ideological disposition should note that Pepper is a gloriously unreconstructed lefty and there are a couple of […]
[…] did — real people with real names (if only we knew who they were!) deciding he was a threat to their private interests and successfully engineering a coup. Besides Fletcher Prouty, who has long maintained this view, another Stone advisor was Major John M. Newman, a professor and former military intelligence officer, whose competence […]
[…] Foundation Press, 1997), 35-53 S. Dubow, Colonial nationalism, the Milner Kindergarten and the rise of South Africanism , History Workshop Journal, 43 (1997), 53-85 The Lloyd George Coup, December 1916 Lloyd George became Prime Minister in 1916, but he was put in office by the Milner Group, as is obvious to anyone (except, of […]
[…] was trying to frame Lansbury for treason, Churchill was himself coming close ‘to flirting with treason’. Churchill appeared to endorse Sir Henry Wilson’s fantasies about a military coup to overthrow Lloyd George and establish a government committed to a crusade against Bolshevism. While he backed away from Wilson’s intrigues, what is significant is that […]
