[…] 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. […]
[…] parts of Africa, it does not follow that Goldsmith, Birley, Rowland and others gave up their strategic and economic interests on the continent. Note that the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was allegedly funded by Ely Calil, a one time associate of Sir James Goldsmith and Mark Birley, and according to its […]
[…] March 2005 that ousted long-time leader Askar Akayev in Kyrgyzstan, (It was after this event that Far West opened its office in Kyrgyzstan.) Nagorny claims that the coup was organized by British intelligence and Chechens in Istanbul, with the “technical assistance” of Americans. Since then the heroin traffic through Kyrgyzstan has allegedly almost trebled. Returning […]
[…] are state agents, and should be replaced. I am not saying this means that the pamphlet is a state production, merely that the call for an internal coup is redolent of my earlier analysis. My view of C18 remains that it was not set up by MI5, but they have sought to influence it, […]
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 […]
[…] serious row in September 1988 when we considered inviting Gerry Adams on to the programme. Adams had apparently agreed to what was at the time quite a coup: he would sit down with sworn political enemies. One of our team, seeking advice on how best to construct a balanced group of discussants, asked a […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
