[…] supply operation. But accompanying the President on the flight were American ambassador Arnold L. Raphael (senior political officer at the Islamabad embassy at the time of Zia’s coup in 1977), US military liaison officer General Herbert Wassom, and most of the inner circle of Army officers who formed the effective government under Zia. Lt. […]
[…] in the States that Britain was having ‘difficult times’, but he was ‘not prepared for the talk on the BOAC flight about the possibility of a military coup; vigilantes were said to be drilling on the South Downs.’ Special Forces Club. David Leigh, in his The Wilson Plot, first raised the activities of the […]
[…] M5S 1Al Covert Action Information Bulletin No.29 ($7, including airmail from PO Box 50272, Washington D.C. 20004) is largely devoted to recent events in the Pacific, the coup in Fiji being the chief focus. However, the single most interesting piece is an essay by Fred Landis showing the links between the CIA and the […]
See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort … Read more
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
[…] The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an agent codenamed Tunworth. Shayler had earlier claimed MI6 involvement in such a plot, and […]
[…] then. And rumour, repeated rumour has it that the Palace was involved in some of the ‘What is to be done about a British crisis – a coup?’ discussions which were taking place then. On February 25th Ken asked the Prime Minister “if she will make a statement on the present definition of national […]
Geoffrey Goodman London: Pluto Press, 2003 hb £18.99 As a conventional political memoir, this is quite an interesting read. The big figures march by: Bevan, Wilson, Callaghan, Healey, Robert Maxwell; and there are interesting stories about all of them. The best anecdote has Denis Healey, as Chancellor in the House of Commons in 1976, […]
[…] opposition to Sadam’s regime being replaced with praise of the ‘great revolutionary’ and his ‘non-capitalist’ country. (5) The NCP also announced its support for the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup of August 1991. At the time of writing the NCP appears to have thrown its lot in with China and North Korea. General Secretary Eric Trevett […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
