[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
