[…] of 2000 silenced M10 pistols. When Werbell failed to secure an export licence, he devised a plan to smuggle the weapons to Vesco.” (Henrik Kruger,The Great Heroin Coup, Black Rose, Montreal, 1980) In 1976-77 large batches of the Ingram ended up in the hands of European fascist terrorists. In Italy in the hands of […]
[…] Towards the end of 1952, the Cabinet agreed to switch the headquarters of Britain’s Middle East forces to Cyprus. Nasser, the real power behind the earlier CIA-backed coup (where the point was to preserve Western interests), seized power in 1954 and forced the British to agree to a total military withdrawal from Suez within […]
[…] Wallace commented recently in an e-mail: ‘The Army’s view was that Herron, Elliott, Fogel etc were involved in the UCA and were trying to bring about a coup within the UDA.’ But this remains conjecture. The ‘UCA smear’ was later used against Glen Barr and, in a different way, against Colin Wallace himself in […]
[…] an ‘economic counsellor’ at the American embassy in London; and draft letters from Stark to Wendy Hansen, American vice-counsel in Florence which discussed the possibility of a coup in Italy (for which, he said, conditions, were not yet ripe).(24) This raises this question: if Stark, the catalyst of the British LSD explosion, was an […]
[…] became a European commissioner in 1972, one of the many Atlanticist Gaitskellites to find the Labour Party an increasingly inhospitable home as the Vietnam War, the Chile coup, and other US foreign policies failed to chime with younger party members as they had with Thomson’s older post-war and early Cold War generation. Lord Thomson […]
[…] the Times (7th July 1983) Brian Crozier, known intelligence lackey, wrote ‘in Grenada new air and naval installations can only be for a Soviet base. Since a coup in 1979, the island has been a Cuban colony’. Nothing like the big lie. Supporting the Reagan policy of roll-back, reversing the supposed Soviet advance, Crozier […]
[…] did one every really leave it? I had been active in the anti-war movement. In the days of Richard Nixon, that could spell trouble. There was the coup in Chile and the murder of Allende. After Nixon’s fall, the national security state perpetuated itself under Henry Kissinger, who stayed on under Gerald Ford as […]
[…] American right-wingers). Both the British and smaller U.S. money markets had poured a lot of money into investments in Russia in the 30 years before the Bolshevik coup. It would hardly be a surprise to find all the major money-lenders of Europe, a few of whom were Jews, in there, as well. When the […]
[…] to their owners some, particularly ‘celebrities’, are acquiring status through their religious choices. This can endorse the religion they favour. (It would have been a considerable coup and much more besides if Princess Diana had abandoned the Anglican Church for the Roman one, as, shortly before her death, it was rumoured.) […]
[…] at gun-point, imposed by the US-dominated IMF on developing countries with the ever-present threat of political action – from economic sanctions, through CIA subversion up to full-blown coup – in the background. They have to be imposed by force because they are simply schemes whereby the imperialist powers (until recently usually America) extract wealth […]
