[…] .'(14) (How would he know what is in MI6 files in the MOD?) A little further on he mentions, without explanation or sourcing, ‘the ill-conceived Royalist/Schellenberg/I.G. Farben coup d’etat in which Himmler would take over and permanently restore the monarchy. A representative of Himmler’s Gestapo would then meet with Halifax in London to confirm […]
[…] passage from government to consultancy to corporation and back again.’ But then quickly afterwards they argue that the removal of the Gough Whitlam government in a ‘constitutional coup’ in Australia in 1975 led to commendable reform. Even their term ‘legal authoritarianism’ betrays a sort of mild shock-horror at the extent of the unfolding policies. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in 1974, with private armies forming in the Home Counties, the British Army doing maneouvres at Heathrow and The Times discussing the conditions for a British military coup even then, when, had you believed the Daily Telegraph, the state itself was under threat from militant unions run by the Communist Party even then MI5 […]
[…] 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
[PDF file]: […] I attempt a general overview of U.S. relations since World War 2 to the drug traffic, including Genovese, in my Foreword to Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Boston: South End Press, 1980), pp. 1-26. 4 3 Brooklyn jail.5 A vigorous prosecution of the Tresca case was even less likely than of the earlier […]
