[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
