[…] ‘MI6, Bush and Foot and Mouth.’ (6) This begins with one of Logan’s most striking and most implausible claims: ‘The author, Gordon Logan, triggered the premature Moscow Coup of August 1991, that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union.’ Well, not according to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he didn’t. In an interview […]
[…] sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-NATO noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek- coup computer model will be getting a spin.’ In the event it was not the Greek coup program but the financial scandal model, previously used in Australia […]
[…] but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, was, […]
[…] only Stuart Christie’s Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist is willing to begin with the fact that most of the conspiracies, the terror, and the coup plotting has come from the right, and in a modern industrialised society such activities are only possible for long if the State tolerates them, or is, […]
[…] They have been building also between proponents of a non-violent transition to a more democratic civil society, and provocations that would suggest a possible intervention or even coup by some elements of the Indonesian Army. These same conditions in 1965 led to an army intervention, and a change of leadership accompanied by an army-backed […]
[…] Evans (London 1983) Two fragments of some interest in this. On p226: “In the late 1960s it (ie The Times) encouraged Cecil King’s lunatic notion of a coup against Harold Wilson’s government in favour of a government of business leaders led by Lord Roben.” This seems to be a new addition to the extant […]
[…] possible trouble spots throughout the world, looking at geography, sensitive areas and military installations (Times 29th December 1983) Mostly Commonwealth countries, this follows anxiety felt after the coup attempt in the Seychelles. In 1981 the SAS were active in support of the government of Sir Dawda Janara, President of Gambia, after an attempted coup. […]
[…] account of Watergate, his Secret Agenda (New York, Ballantine, 1985; no UK edition). Hougan’s research was subsequently reworked by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin in their Silent Coup (London: Gollancz, 1991). This is a fine book but the authors were mining seams already cut by Hougan. Somewhere along the way these books came to […]
[…] she’d read Frederick Forsyth’s execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth’s novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin – notably the latter, who disappeared without trace […]
See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more
