[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Security Agency; and retired Rear Admiral Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. As a former NSA head, Inman’s evidence in particular is quite a coup. For if any state agency in the U.S. could be presumed to know about alien landings etc., it would be the NSA with its global surveillance […]
[…] the Private Finance Iniative (PFI), and there is a mine of information in his footnotes. The central thesis of the book is the assertion that a ‘ coup’ took place in this country whereby the business and financial elites have captured all the levers of power. It is a picture that he presents in […]
[…] 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) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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); […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
