[PDF file]: […] she travels with a largely American group of Aspen Institute people to meet the Shah of Iran whose ‘father had occupied the throne in a bloodless military coup’. Wasn’t there just a bit more to the CIA’s Operation Ajax than that, Shirley? Or this. When arriving for the well-trailed and hugely publicised meeting with […]
[PDF file]: […] taking office. In 1964, Lacerda would mount yet another propaganda blitz, this time against Quadros’s successor, President João Goulart.30 Lacerda soon became personally involved in the military coup of 31 March, which was supported by the CIA.31 Lacerda, then, was no saloon-bar braggart or armchair general, but a seasoned agitator, propagandist, and activist with […]
[PDF file]: […] files from 1977/8 there is a copy of an FBI report concerning one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did […]
[PDF file]: […] was ‘contrary to international convention’. See Malcolm Atkin, Fighting Nazi Occupation: British Resistance 1939-1945 (Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military, 2015) p. 7. 11 8 the UK. The coup de grace, trumping Greig’s remarks in July, comes two days later via the Duchess of Kent: ‘. . . the Duchess of Kent and Zoia walked […]
[PDF file]: […] and Oleg Kerensky, a noted bridge engineer. Oleg Kerensky was the son of Alexander Kerensky, briefly Prime Minister of Russia in 1917, until ousted in a Bolshevik coup. T. Dan Smith actually began his political career in the Revolutionary Communist Party – a significant UK Trotskyist group – with Gerry Healy, Ted Grant et […]
[PDF file]: […] as part of ‘the Axis of Evil’, but Iranians were well aware of ‘a history of Western aggression’ against their country, going back to the CIA-SIS sponsored coup of 1953. He makes the point that the US had no problem with the Shah’s nuclear programme (‘the United States gave Iran its first reactor in […]
[PDF file]: […] for strategic thinking, no interest in learning from his mistakes, a non-existent attention span’ so that his attempts to steal the 2020 election, including ‘the deadly QAnon Coup attempt of January 6’, failed. Trump thankfully ‘was inept, and terrible at implementing his impulses’. (pp. 20-21) The revised edition of The Useful Idiot certainly repays […]
[PDF file]: […] hosted a number of confidential meetings between German military and diplomatic figures and British FO advisors. However, the British preference for not removing Hitler via a military coup and keeping him as a reliable anti-Communist instead drove them all to despair, with one, Wolfgang zu Putlitz, memorably commenting ‘…..the English think they are wise […]
