[PDF file]: […] us that David Stirling’s GB75 was ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of […]
[PDF file]: […] mile from the White House, what chance had a life-long critic of US foreign policy – his children’s Chilean-born mother was a refugee from the Kissinger-backed Pinochet coup – who had landed the task of leading a party of diminished and largely demoralised members after two general election defeats?3 This perspective is not one […]
[PDF file]: […] new round of NATO enlargement, which would include Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine looks West The dissolution of the USSR began on 18 August 1991, following an abortive coup against Gorbachev by Communist Party and KGB elements anxious to preserve the Union. Gorbachev sat it out in his holiday dacha on the Crimea and was […]
[PDF file]: […] the New Statesman recently. Pond’s essay is a good example of the sophisticated end of the good guys/bad guys position;40 and she makes no reference to the coup run there by the Americans and their local allies.41 One minor difference between Cold War 2 and this one is the attitude of the New Statesman. […]
[…] Lownie 12 13 See, for instance, Greg Palast’s recounting of how that all started (from July of 1998) at or 14 offered about the 1968 Cecil King ‘coup’ event. It’s pretty much the story as before, though firmed up a little. Yes, there was a meeting called by Cecil King, the Chair of the […]
[PDF file]: […] and his account is error-strewn and fanciful. In the first two pages of that section he conflates events of the 1960s with the 1970s. He has a coup being plotted by David Stirling’s GB75 in 1974. For this there is no evidence and he offers none. Stirling was preoccupied by the ‘left threat’ in […]
[PDF file]: […] digital copy of his book, The Mountbattens.14 About the Mountbattens I know little. But I was curious to see what Lownie offered about the 1968 Cecil King ‘coup’ event. It’s pretty much the story as 12 13 See, for instance, Greg Palast’s recounting of how that all started (from July of 1998) at or […]
[PDF file]: […] only two names not censored on the publicly available version of CX 95/53452 are that of Colonel Gaddafi himself and Musa Qadhaf Al-Dam (who was ‘murdered by coup plotters in June’). 23 24 25 See footnote 14. Ramadan Abedi might well be an MI6 asset but, on the basis of what is said in […]
[PDF file]: […] possible explanations; either a very clever intelligence ruse was being played out so as to buy time, thus staving off an invasion, or there was a genuine coup under way. A coup designed simply to unseat Churchill. That is why Hess flew to Scotland. Had he wished to have made a peace with Churchill, […]
[PDF file]: […] won a general election in 1978, then, the centre of gravity within the PLP may well have been further to the left. Thus, the idea of ‘a coup from the left’ was not an unreasonable deduction. Many considered it possible, including Corbyn’s local colleagues Douglas Eden and Stephen Haseler from the other end of […]
