[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. […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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[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]: […] 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]: […] Abroad, 1945-51’, writes that ‘The IRD was formed at the Foreign Office as a direct response to increasingly hostile Soviet propaganda in the wake of the communist coup in Prague, the escalating blockade of West Berlin and mounting pressure on Finland.’ Taylor in Michael Dockrill and John W. Young (eds.) 1989. 62 See, for […]
[PDF file]: […] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]
[…] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]
