[…] she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin – notably the latter, who disappeared without trace […]
[…] possible trouble spots throughout the world, looking at geography, sensitive areas and military installations (Times 29th December 1983) Mostly Commonwealth countries, this follows anxiety felt after the coup attempt in the Seychelles. In 1981 the SAS were active in support of the government of Sir Dawda Janara, President of Gambia, after an attempted coup. […]
See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more
[…] by the transnational union organisation, Public Services International (PSI). William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed Press, London, 1986) includes a chapter on the joint CIA/MI5 coup run in the sixties against Chedi Jagan, the Prime Minister of British Guyana. In that coup the vehicle used by the Anglo-American spooks was Public Services […]
[…] “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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] did one every really leave it? I had been active in the anti-war movement. In the days of Richard Nixon, that could spell trouble. There was the coup in Chile and the murder of Allende. After Nixon’s fall, the national security state perpetuated itself under Henry Kissinger, who stayed on under Gerald Ford as […]
[…] Young is omitted, the Monday Club gets half a line; and so forth. Reading Campbell’s book you would never know, for example, that the The Times was seriously discussing the conditions for a military coup in the UK in 1974. In omitting all this parapolitical material Campbell is guilty either of incompetence or of falsification.
[…] American right-wingers). Both the British and smaller U.S. money markets had poured a lot of money into investments in Russia in the 30 years before the Bolshevik coup. It would hardly be a surprise to find all the major money-lenders of Europe, a few of whom were Jews, in there, as well. When the […]
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
