[…] Helms, for example, was personally concerned in A Look Over My Shoulder to avoid blame for a rather extensive list of assassinations of foreign leaders, for a coup or two, and for the domestic operations of the Agency. His accounts of the foreign assassinations attributed to the CIA in his time follow a curious […]
[PDF file]: The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973 Scott Newton September 11 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the first 9/11. This was the coup in Chile against the left–wing Popular Unity coalition government of President Salvador Allende, who had been democratically elected to power in 1970. Allende’s administration was replaced by the military […]
[PDF file]: THE GLOBAL COUP D’ETAT The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Great Reset Jacob Nordangård New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2024, h/b, $32.99 (US) Robin Ramsay This arrived unbidden and the title wasn’t encouraging. ‘The global coup d’etat’ is unintelligible, since d’etat refers to a state. The Great Reset? – ah yes, a cluster of conspiracy […]
[…] Christian Social Union party, is an important group in international parapolitical manipulation. Active in Latin America for the Contras,(3) supporting Mobuto in Zaire, involved in the Fiji coup in 1987, it was caught diverting state development aid from Germany into right-wing party coffers in Ecuador in the same year. Strauss and CSU were the […]
[…] Takeover’, at is notable for an intelligible account of CDOs and CDSs and his view of what has happened since the crash as a kind of financial coup. This view is also held by Simon Johnson in his ‘The Quiet Coup’. See note 16. Michael Lewis is the author of Liars Poker, about the […]
[…] (1) analyses CIA and White House records to show how the former made use of the Chilean media to help undermine Allende’s government prior to the military coup of 11 September 1973. Augustin Edwards (owner of the country’s leading newspaper, El Mercurio, and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying […]
[…] apparent that he had already revised one of the key sections in his book, the account of Captain Ramsay MP, the Right Club, Nordic League and the ‘coup’ being planned in 1939/40. While in his book Thurlow accepts the received version that the ‘coup’ was nothing more than a pretext on MI5’s part to […]
[…] politicians as well as maintaining an intimate relationship with Britain’s own security services.(3) The CIA’s role in the overthrow of governments is well-known, beginning with the 1953 coup in Iran and the 1954 coup in Guatemala. Since then the organisation has been involved in coups in South Vietnam in 1963, in Brazil in 1964, […]
[…] Jones goes to Cuba In January 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship, and seized power in Cuba. Land reforms followed within a few months of the coup, alienating foreign investors and the rich. By Summer, therefore, Cuba was in the midst of a low-intensity counter-revolution, with sabotage operations mounted from within and outside […]
[…] from all posts in the trade union movement of individuals with a record of past or present membership of Communist organisations’. (2) Later in the year, when coup speculation was more intense, the NF made clear that theirs was no ‘doctrinaire support of parliamentary government as an end in itself’, and that their answer […]
