[…] physically, he tells us. Galloway also goes back a long way with Dennis MacShane, the Foreign Office minister who denounced Hugo Chavez during the short-lived and US-backed coup attempt on the Venezuelan leader. ‘Now I know a lot about Dennis MacShane,’ Galloway writes rather threateningly, ‘including the fact that he is not Dennis MacShane. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] WACL supporter, ex-DDCIA, Ray Cline accompanied Manila CIA station chief and the CIA’s General Sweitzer on a visit to messers Enrile and Ramos, just before the abortive coup against Mrs Aquino’s government. One need not jump to conclusions: the Americans may have been trying to call the coup off. Either way, the presence of […]
[…] been ‘naive’ in reassuring President Sukarno of Indonesia in 1963 that Guy Pauker, formerly of RAND, was not CIA. (Two years later Pauker was involved in the coup which overthrew Sukarno. On this see Peter Dale Scott’s essay in Lobster 20.) But this does not lead him to examine the evidence of US involvement […]
[…] of the Judeo-Masonic- Anglophile/Royalist Cabal in its confict with the Vatican’…..’ Or this from a letter to me recently: ‘the hypothesis that the Vatican/SMOM crowd ran a coup in Britain via pro American elements of British intelligence against the Judeo-Masonic forces best represented by the Queen and, in the City, Lord Rothschild.’ Or… The […]
[…] 1957 MECAS 1959 TIAZ 1959 BAHREIN 1962 FO 1964 1ST SEC UK MISSION NEW YORK 1967 1ST SEC AND HOC AMMAN 1969 CONSUL GEN OMAN. INVOLVED IN COUP (F) 1971 FCO HEAD OF ACCOMMODATION AND SERVICES 1974 AMBASSADOR TO QATAR 1978 CONSUL GEN ATLANTA CRESSWELL, SIR MICHAEL JUSTIN KMCG (1960) CMG (52) B 21.9.09 […]
[…] de refusés, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Harold Pinter, Greg Palast, Edward Herman et al, have amassed a body of work that exposes NED orchestration of the failed coup against President Chávez in 2002, the 2004 coup against President Aristide of Haiti resulting in the slaughter of thousands of women, children and men, and similar […]
[…] the impact of strike action in the essential services, and were linked to rumours that elements in the military and intelligence establishment were contemplating some kind of coup to overthrow the minority Labour government which had taken up office in March 1974. This view was expressed at the time by Tony Benn (2) and […]
[…] sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek- coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used in Australia […]
