[…] been engaged in building character profiles of the White House staff for the CIA. In the words of one observer the CIA were engaged in a “ coup d’etat in the making’. We are talking here of elite battles at the highest levels of American politics. Nothing surprising to assassination buffs, but curious that […]
[…] State for European Affairs” warned in an interview.. that Greek-American relations “Can’t be a one-way friendship.” The Cyprus connection, predicted as a probable trigger for a US-backed coup in Lobster 7, duly appears. Daily Telegraph (4 February 1985) reported a “previously unknown organisation” claiming the credit (sic) for a bomb blast in a US […]
[…] left him with ‘almost a controlling interest’ (chapters 10 and 5) – this was presumably part of the carve-up of state assets which followed the CIA-sponsored 1966 coup against Nkrumah. In 1969 Stark was spoken of as ‘a man with a million-dollar inheritance’ and could call on contacts in ‘Parisian radical circles’ (chapter 9); […]
[…] in 1974, with private armies forming in the Home Counties, the British Army doing maneouvres at Heathrow and The Times discussing the conditions for a British military coup even then, when, had you believed the Daily Telegraph, the state itself was under threat from militant unions run by the Communist Party even then MI5 […]
[…] 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. A flare-up in Cyprus might be the first stage. (On Cyprus, Christopher Hitchens’ Cyprus (1984) is of interest, especially […]
[…] them to vote for Tony Blair. In the run-up to the 1997 general election, Blair’s win in this popular media event would have been a valuable propaganda coup, making this something of a ‘double whammy’ in the world of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended to […]
Introduction This, as some of Lobster‘s older readers will recognise, is a re-write of the essay I wrote on the JFK thing in Lobster 2, published on the 20th anniversary of the assassination in November 1983. This rewrite was written for the first issue of Casablanca, but it failed to appear. In JFK the Costner/Garrison … Read more
[…] Pine Gap project at Alice Springs, the public disclosure of which so infuriated Ted Shackley, the CIA’s East Asian chief, that he set in motion a virtual coup d’etat. Relevant to the Kennedy assassination is the fact that the prime contractor for the Pine Gap base in 1966 was Collins Radio, of Dallas, Texas. […]
[…] the Sunday Telegraph 25 July 1999 that Blair tried to make Levy a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). This would have been a stunning coup by the Israelis but it was resisted by the Foreign Secretary, at the behest, presumably, of the traditionally pro-Arab FCO. Instead Levy became Blair’s personal envoy […]
[…] produced a book which is practically falling over itself to tell ever more astounding (and dreadful) tales of plots, “red’ and “black’ terror run by spooks, bombings, coup plans, assassinations and all the other goodies the Americans bought with the 100 million dollars or so they have spent there since the war. On second […]
