[…] of 2000 silenced M10 pistols. When Werbell failed to secure an export licence, he devised a plan to smuggle the weapons to Vesco.” (Henrik Kruger,The Great Heroin Coup, Black Rose, Montreal, 1980) In 1976-77 large batches of the Ingram ended up in the hands of European fascist terrorists. In Italy in the hands of […]
[…] the conquests left the Generals without grounds for action and guaranteed that there would be no food and raw material shortage to provide a motive for a coup. Chamberlain’s entire policy collapsed with the triumph of the blitzkreig. It was appropriate that the Prime Minister should resign: in May 1940 a limited war was […]
[…] Wallace commented recently in an e-mail: ‘The Army’s view was that Herron, Elliott, Fogel etc were involved in the UCA and were trying to bring about a coup within the UDA.’ But this remains conjecture. The ‘UCA smear’ was later used against Glen Barr and, in a different way, against Colin Wallace himself in […]
[…] an ‘economic counsellor’ at the American embassy in London; and draft letters from Stark to Wendy Hansen, American vice-counsel in Florence which discussed the possibility of a coup in Italy (for which, he said, conditions, were not yet ripe).(24) This raises this question: if Stark, the catalyst of the British LSD explosion, was an […]
[…] became a European commissioner in 1972, one of the many Atlanticist Gaitskellites to find the Labour Party an increasingly inhospitable home as the Vietnam War, the Chile coup, and other US foreign policies failed to chime with younger party members as they had with Thomson’s older post-war and early Cold War generation. Lord Thomson […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
[…] the Times (7th July 1983) Brian Crozier, known intelligence lackey, wrote ‘in Grenada new air and naval installations can only be for a Soviet base. Since a coup in 1979, the island has been a Cuban colony’. Nothing like the big lie. Supporting the Reagan policy of roll-back, reversing the supposed Soviet advance, Crozier […]
[…] Towards the end of 1952, the Cabinet agreed to switch the headquarters of Britain’s Middle East forces to Cyprus. Nasser, the real power behind the earlier CIA-backed coup (where the point was to preserve Western interests), seized power in 1954 and forced the British to agree to a total military withdrawal from Suez within […]
[…] did one every really leave it? I had been active in the anti-war movement. In the days of Richard Nixon, that could spell trouble. There was the coup in Chile and the murder of Allende. After Nixon’s fall, the national security state perpetuated itself under Henry Kissinger, who stayed on under Gerald Ford as […]
[…] the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue […]
