[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] some of their ultimately irrational views may have seemed.(12) Knight and Livingstone were operating during a time when the Allende government had been overthrown in a CIA-backed coup and the Salazar regime in Portugal had collapsed overnight in 1974, to give but two examples of dramatic change during those years. Something like this happening […]
[…] “I have absolutely no doubt that someone or something got to them before we did“‘ (emphasis added). The amazing Mr Logan From: Gordon Logan Subject: The Moscow Coup and MI6’s Murders ‘I am sending the text of a letter that I sent to the British Home Office a few months ago. I have been […]
[…] bloody strife’ (p. 35). Saddam Hussein joined a failed Ba’athist conspiracy in 1959 to assassinate President Quasim, who had gained power the year before in a nationalist coup that killed the Iraqi royal family and the prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein’s faction of the […]
[…] Before he could speak, I opened fire and emptied a magazine into them without anyone realising what I was doing. I changed magazines and gave each the coup de grace. I wanted no survivors to talk of white assassins.’ (p. 122) The following year, with Hind, he assassinated the ZANU leader, Herbert Chitepo and […]
[…] touch them. “Collaboration with the CIA went beyond certain French intelligence units to the highest circles, to the men closest to de Gaulle”. (Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Montreal 1980) p. 67).This included Pompidou, who was blasted verbally by de Gaulle but who could do little more than shout. One of those arrested was […]
[…] planned and executed by the CIA and British SIS). ‘The document, which remains classified, discloses the pivotal role British intelligence officials played in initialing and planning the coup, and it shows that Washington and London shared an interest in maintaining the West’s control over Iranian oil…The operation was the blueprint for a succession of […]
[…] if true – I am unable to decide. Since the Pentagon has control of most things which affect its well-being, why would they bother with a formal coup?’ As I make abundantly clear in my book (e.g. pp. 225-26, citing the 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 38, 326, and Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies, p. […]
