[…] (1) analyses CIA and White House records to show how the former made use of the Chilean media to help undermine Allende’s government prior to the military coup of 11 September 1973. Augustin Edwards (owner of the country’s leading newspaper, El Mercurio, and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying […]
[…] access to previously released documents: Popular Document Collection (Bay of Pigs reports; Atomic Spies-Rosenbergs; Oleg Penkovsky; Gary Powers; POW/MIA; Guatemala – chronicles CIA involvement in the 1954 coup; Human Rights in Latin America; UFOs). Your Rights – Public Rights of Access to CIA info, including the FOIA and electronic FOIA amendment; the Privacy Act; […]
[…] in a story about casualties or incidents.’ A recent High Court case in which Teodoro Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, unsuccessfully sued the companies behind the failed coup to overthrow him gives some insight into the murky world of mercenaries and their financial backers.(28) One well known name that keeps cropping up is that […]
[…] lack of accountability and their incompetence. He has a chapter, ‘The subverting of Britain’, in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no […]
[…] materials. The Nation review was generally favourable, with the exception of references to a chapter entitled ‘Dallas and Moscow’ – ‘… according to KGB analysts, an anti-Soviet coup d’etat had in fact occurred, “organized by a circle of reactionary monopolists in league with pro-fascist groups of the US with the object of strengthening the […]
[…] h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism (New York: […]
[…] and the growth of the PR industry. And these were done straight. The programme missed a lot of tricks. There was much discussion of the talk of coup plotting in the mid 1970s yet it didn’t mention or, better, show the discussions about a coup carried in The Times. It talked about […]
[…] and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the Irish […]
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more
[…] Acland. In those days the ILP was still a force to be reckoned with on the left of the Labour Party and Smith’s move was quite a coup for Common Wealth. But as the cold war developed in the late 40’s Smith’s anti-Stalinism moved him sharply to right and he became fiercely anti-Soviet. Hulton […]
