[…] 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 […]
[…] 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: […]
[…] ‘MI6, Bush and Foot and Mouth.’ (6) This begins with one of Logan’s most striking and most implausible claims: ‘The author, Gordon Logan, triggered the premature Moscow Coup of August 1991, that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union.’ Well, not according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he didn’t. In an interview […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] British SAS troops fought alongside American “special forces”.’ Pilger’s footnote refers the reader to a section of William Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, on the Iran coup. But what are the ‘official records’ which tell us about ‘British and CIA terrorism’ in British Guiana in 1953? My initial reaction to this was, I […]
[…] but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, was, […]
[…] only Stuart Christie’s Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist is willing to begin with the fact that most of the conspiracies, the terror, and the coup plotting has come from the right, and in a modern industrialised society such activities are only possible for long if the State tolerates them, or is, […]
[…] They have been building also between proponents of a non-violent transition to a more democratic civil society, and provocations that would suggest a possible intervention or even coup by some elements of the Indonesian Army. These same conditions in 1965 led to an army intervention, and a change of leadership accompanied by an army-backed […]
[…] Evans (London 1983) Two fragments of some interest in this. On p226: “In the late 1960s it (ie The Times) encouraged Cecil King’s lunatic notion of a coup against Harold Wilson’s government in favour of a government of business leaders led by Lord Roben.” This seems to be a new addition to the extant […]
