[…] 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 […]
[…] be an intelligence service – yes, with clandestine sources – but also one which, he could assure his colleagues in Whitehall, would not embarrass them. No more coup plotting in the Middle East, for example. One of the problems with the book is its lack of clarity about sources. Some of it simply is […]
[…] either geographic or operative (spying, say) became crucial battlegrounds. He lets his description of events point their own moral: from the failed Baltic operations, through the Iranian coup, into the hi-jacking of European culture – ‘the Battle for Picasso’s Mind’ – and its recycling as a psy-ops project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. […]
[…] the world’s most powerful military and intelligence forces. I had not previously grasped how much the Kennedys and their staffs talked about the possibility of a military coup being run against them and how much of the time the Kennedys used back channels to circumvent bureaucracies they didn’t trust. Talbot answers the question, Why […]
Peter Taylor has made more TV programmes about Northern Ireland since 1969 than other any British journalist. His most recent was the documentary, Loyalists, earlier this year, a series of interviews with Loyalist paramilitaries and politicians. This was followed by a book, Loyalists (Bloomsbury, 1999), which contained some of the interviews in that programme. Like … Read more
[…] the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue […]
[…] completely and use UNSCOM and sanctions to police the country, at the same time covertly encouraging groups which would be in a position to stage a military coup. This was not enough for some: on 26 January 1998 Clinton received a letter calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a ‘hazard […]
Ben Pimlott Harper Collins, London 1992, £20 At one level, this deserves the plaudits it has received. It is a belting good read, such a good read, in fact, that I had got as far as 1967 before I realized that there was no mention of Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England … Read more
