[…] 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 […]
[…] materials. The Nation review was generally favourable, with the exception of references to a chapter entitled ‘Dallas and Moscow’ – ‘… according to KGB analysts, an anti-Soviet coup d’etat had in fact occurred, “organized by a circle of reactionary monopolists in league with pro-fascist groups of the US with the object of strengthening the […]
[…] h/b Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism (New York: […]
[…] and the growth of the PR industry. And these were done straight. The programme missed a lot of tricks. There was much discussion of the talk of coup plotting in the mid 1970s yet it didn’t mention or, better, show the discussions about a coup carried in The Times. It talked about […]
[…] and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the Irish […]
[…] is that it has been prepared at least to encourage regulatory and legal (though not democratic) checks on its excesses. And all this has happened because a coup d’etat was mounted, scarcely registered by the wider population, within a secondary part of the total system – a political party – one that breached the […]
MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more
[…] Acland. In those days the ILP was still a force to be reckoned with on the left of the Labour Party and Smith’s move was quite a coup for Common Wealth. But as the cold war developed in the late 40’s Smith’s anti-Stalinism moved him sharply to right and he became fiercely anti-Soviet. Hulton […]
[…] physically, he tells us. Galloway also goes back a long way with Dennis MacShane, the Foreign Office minister who denounced Hugo Chavez during the short-lived and US-backed coup attempt on the Venezuelan leader. ‘Now I know a lot about Dennis MacShane,’ Galloway writes rather threateningly, ‘including the fact that he is not Dennis MacShane. […]
[…] virtually nil. Weiner also shows the Agency always lied to the politicians and the President, nominally its bosses, and was routinely involved in assassination in its various coup plots. So: incomplete and partial, yes; but also full of fascinating bits and pieces. In any other period of the history of the American empire this […]
