[…] (ex Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton); President/CEO Steve Nicandros (ex-Pres. Conoco International Operations); and Advisers John Deutch (ex-CIA Director) and Lloyd Bentsen (ex-Treasury Secretary.). ‘A coup attempt in 1998 led the chairman of the National Independence Party to call for NATO or the United States to station a military contingent in Georgia […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 1953-55 FO 1956-58 BONN 1959 COUNSELLOR CAIRO 1963 COUNSELLOR FO 1967 AMBASSADOR KUWAIT 1968 UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO 1970 POLITICAL RESIDENT IN PERSIAN GULF INVOLVED IN COUP OMAN (OMAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY JE PETERSON LONDON 1978) 1972 VISITING FCO FELLOW ST ANTONY’S COLL OXFORD 1973 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO 1975 […]
[…] is the thesis that has always been promoted by Searchlight. From their famous issue ‘The Men in the Shadows’ (no. 18, November 1976) through to their ‘Quiet Coup’ issue (no. 144, June 1987), Searchlight has consistently pointed the finger at the activities of former MI6 Vice Chief G.K. Young and ‘the bridge’ between the […]
[…] liberal. The CIA and its allies in the mass media toppled Nixon only to lose the estimates war in the long run anyway. Watergate wasn’t really a coup d’etat as some, notably Coulson, have suggested. Hougan’s point that the CIA could hardly have predicted the fall of Nixon has to be considered, but there […]
[…] prevailing in Chile on the left as they waited for the military to crush Allende. Some of the people Blum knew in Chile were murdered after the coup. Blum quit America and went Europe – Denmark, Germany and then Britain. He didn’t like us uptight Europeans very much. More scuffling. In London he was […]
[…] the covert operations of this period’. If asked about CIA covert operations in this period I would have difficulty producing much information about anything before the 1953 coup in Iran. Some bits on Italy, some on Germany, the Congress for Cultural Freedom… Pisani’s thesis is correcting a fault only she perceives. Pisani shows how […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a more militantly anti-communist organisation, but Josselson’s focus on cultural-intellectual matters would now be the dominant theme.(57) Coleman explicitly says that ‘it is impossible to separate this coup – at once ideological and pragmatic – from the decision of the US Central Intelligence Agency to assume responsibility for the continuing funding of the Congress.'(58) […]
