[…] Kirk died while we were still digesting the Watergate scandals, before the major Watergate-related disclosures about CIA dirty work and assassinations, and before the CIA- assisted “Kerr coup’ against Gough Whitlam in Australia. Even so, many people close to Kirk believed he was murdered. He was a very sick man, certainly, but he should […]
[…] had rebelled against Eve Balfour and her aristocratic cronies, established the more vigorous and practical organisations, the Organic Growers Association and British Organic Farmers; and staged a coup within the Soil Association which revitalised it and made it more relevant to the late-twentieth century. Some of the leading figures – Peter Segger and Dr. […]
[…] witnessed first-hand the contacts of the domestic party with foreign powers.’ It was ‘virtual control of the American CP…..too valuable to be sacrificed for a public relations coup.’ (p. 38) In the UK, as Peter Wright first told us in Spycatcher, something similar pertained: MI5 knew who the conduit to Moscow was and allowed […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] investment came from Harvard University’s endowment fund, on whose board of directors sat an old Bush family friend, Robert Stone Jnr. Then in 1990 came Harken’s biggest coup – winning a Bahrain deal against bids from oil giants Amoco and Chevron. This was despite the fact that Harken had never been engaged in international […]
[…] only paper to give any prominence to the programme was The Daily Mail, whose two-page spread on March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of […]
[…] make a deal with the left-of-centre PRD (Partido Democratico Revolucionario)? Or by rival politicians from Baja California? Was his murder a warning from the drug cartels? A coup covertly sponsored by the military? Could the Americans be involved? Their economic stake in Mexico is enormous, and the United States has not been shy about […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
