I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
[…] left in Europe and America, who hate Bush’s America, the idea that the world has been conned by a vast sleight of hand, in effect by a coup d’etat, which is being covered-up, is terribly sexy. It is to me, too. As is the role of campaigner who will pull back the curtain and […]
[…] the material – read but no note-taking – which got me interested in this. The term ‘surfacing’ is used in the CIA documents recently released about the coup in Chile. See Scott Newton’s ‘Historical Notes’ in this issue. Good initially thought the documents were real, eventually changed his mind and is quoted in Jim […]
[…] supply operation. But accompanying the President on the flight were American ambassador Arnold L. Raphael (senior political officer at the Islamabad embassy at the time of Zia’s coup in 1977), US military liaison officer General Herbert Wassom, and most of the inner circle of Army officers who formed the effective government under Zia. Lt. […]
[…] in the States that Britain was having ‘difficult times’, but he was ‘not prepared for the talk on the BOAC flight about the possibility of a military coup; vigilantes were said to be drilling on the South Downs.’ Special Forces Club. David Leigh, in his The Wilson Plot, first raised the activities of the […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
[…] M5S 1Al Covert Action Information Bulletin No.29 ($7, including airmail from PO Box 50272, Washington D.C. 20004) is largely devoted to recent events in the Pacific, the coup in Fiji being the chief focus. However, the single most interesting piece is an essay by Fred Landis showing the links between the CIA and the […]
See note(1) Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort … Read more
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
[…] The document, marked CX95/53452 and UK SECRET/ DELICATE SOURCE/UK EYES ALPHA, is entitled ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an agent codenamed Tunworth. Shayler had earlier claimed MI6 involvement in such a plot, and […]
