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Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
[PDF file]: […] might this have happened? She would still have won the 1987 election, and would still have introduced the Poll Tax, which Tebbitt also supported. When the anti-Thatcher coup happened, he might have stood, but would he have beaten John Major and/or Michael Heseltine? This must be debatable because, on balance, either Major or Heseltine […]
JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux
[…] 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 […]
View from the Bridge 89
[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.23 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams
[PDF file]: […] Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, the first former colony to achieve independence, and the focus of much of Africa’s rising nationalism. He was eventually removed in a coup in 1966. She has another detailed run though the 1961 death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld but is still unable to say with certainty which state […]
The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee
[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 […]
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
[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 […]
View from the Bridge 89
[…] of who said what and why. Centrally, Banyan works through the assertions and theories of those denying the existence of Russian meddling with the election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims […]
Apocryphilia
[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 […]
JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux
[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 […]