[PDF file]: […] possible explanations; either a very clever intelligence ruse was being played out so as to buy time, thus staving off an invasion, or there was a genuine coup under way. A coup designed simply to unseat Churchill. That is why Hess flew to Scotland. Had he wished to have made a peace with Churchill, […]
[PDF file]: […] Abroad, 1945-51’, writes that ‘The IRD was formed at the Foreign Office as a direct response to increasingly hostile Soviet propaganda in the wake of the communist coup in Prague, the escalating blockade of West Berlin and mounting pressure on Finland.’ Taylor in Michael Dockrill and John W. Young (eds.) 1989. 62 See, for […]
[…] Quoted at . 5 6 Nixon’s ‘personal advertising agency’. Hougan’s work in Secret Agenda was elaborated a little by Len Colodny and Robert Gettling in their Silent Coup (reviewed in Lobster 26) and a bit more in Phil Stanford’s White House Call Girl (reviewed in Lobster 68 at ). The one item the author […]
[PDF file]: […] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? 1 Climbing the Bookshelves This, remember, is not some publicity naif. She […]
[PDF file]: […] different from Colonel Callan’s cut-throat mercenaries in Angola in the 1970s.4 4 The sanitised public image was tarnished, however, when Sandline were implicated in a bungled military coup plot in Equatorial Guinea linking Simon 43 44 Mann of Executive Outcomes to Mark Thatcher. This should have been seen as an ill omen for future […]
[…] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? 1 Climbing the Bookshelves This, remember, is not some publicity naif. She […]
[PDF file]: […] psychological warfare campaign intended to inculcate the American rightwing with not only a religious yearning for martial law but also a perverse hunger for an outright military coup in the U.S. – was a buildup to the insurrection of January 6 in case Trump lost what his 2016 campaign advisor Roger Stone characterized as […]
[PDF file]: […] book – though in May 1981 Livingstone could perhaps be forgiven for missing the event given that he was then fully occupied (at County Hall) in the coup that removed Andrew Mackintosh as leader of the GLC. The reader may also reflect that it is curious that Livingstone, Abbot and their little band of […]
[PDF file]: […] given how much attention he gives it – ‘covert action in the colonies amounted to little’. He sees apparent successes in Oman (the SAS); Iran (the SIS-CIA coup) – but with disastrous long-term consequences; and Indonesia in 1965 – if involvement in the massacre of half a million people can be regarded as a […]
