[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
Introduction This, as some of Lobster‘s older readers will recognise, is a re-write of the essay I wrote on the JFK thing in Lobster 2, published on the 20th anniversary of the assassination in November 1983. This rewrite was written for the first issue of Casablanca, but it failed to appear. In JFK the Costner/Garrison … Read more
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
[…] Pine Gap project at Alice Springs, the public disclosure of which so infuriated Ted Shackley, the CIA’s East Asian chief, that he set in motion a virtual coup d’etat. Relevant to the Kennedy assassination is the fact that the prime contractor for the Pine Gap base in 1966 was Collins Radio, of Dallas, Texas. […]
[…] the Sunday Telegraph 25 July 1999 that Blair tried to make Levy a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). This would have been a stunning coup by the Israelis but it was resisted by the Foreign Secretary, at the behest, presumably, of the traditionally pro-Arab FCO. Instead Levy became Blair’s personal envoy […]
