[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – … Read more
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] no run-of-the-mill intelligence officer. His father-in-law was Alexander Gorkin, Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Court. It is also believed that Ivanov played a prominent role in Nasser’s coup in Egypt. According to Nigel West (15) he had been identified by ‘D’ branch as an intelligence officer when he first arrived in London on the […]
[…] Young is omitted, the Monday Club gets half a line; and so forth. Reading Campbell’s book you would never know, for example, that the The Times was seriously discussing the conditions for a military coup in the UK in 1974. In omitting all this parapolitical material Campbell is guilty either of incompetence or of falsification.
