[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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) […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
