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|description=A coup d'état, also known as a coup, a putsch, or an overthrow, is the sudden deposition of a government, usually by a small group within the existing state establishment — often the military or secret services — to depose the extant government and replace it with another body, civil or military. | |description=A coup d'état, also known as a coup, a putsch, or an overthrow, is the sudden deposition of a government, usually by a small group within the existing state establishment — often the military or secret services — to depose the extant government and replace it with another body, civil or military. | ||
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==Official Narrative== | ==Official Narrative== | ||
| − | + | This phrase is mostly applied by the Western {{ccm}} to small nations in [[Africa]], [[Asia]] or [[South America]]. The label is rarely applied to such events in '[[democratic]]' countries. | |
===Problems=== | ===Problems=== | ||
| − | Power struggles are | + | Power struggles are usually much more complex events that the {{ccm}} has time or inclination to communicate. The {{on}} about "coups d'état" is systematically oversimplified as a means of obscuring connections to subjects of domestic political significance. The story that '[[developed]]' [[nation state]]s dont tend to have such events, partly a reflection that modern coups operate in stealthier means such as through the use of [[deep event]]s such as [[false flag attack]]s. |
==Examples== | ==Examples== | ||
| + | Most of the [[US Efforts to Suppress Democracy since 1945]] were carried out secretly, and their full complexity often remains a matter of debate years or decades after the fact. This page will focus on such events in 'developed' countries. The last such military backed coup in US was the 1933 [[Business Plot]], foiled by the integrity of [[Smedley Butler]]. | ||
===USA=== | ===USA=== | ||
| − | + | Since 1945, the most obvious coup d'état in the [[USA]] has been the [[JFK Assassination]]. [[Watergate]] is also well understood as a coup d'état - this makes far more sense than the [[on]] of it as a political scandal.<ref>[http://www.altruists.org/f951 The Ford Presidency & Watergate], KPFA </ref> | |
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| + | Some commentators have used the phrase "coup d'état" to describe subsequent political developments in US. [[Chris Hedges]] says that since [[Ronald Reagan]] the US he seen a "corporate coup d'état in slow motion". [[Kurt Vonnegut]] stated that "I myself feel that our country... might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable".<ref>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1100.htm</ref> [[Mark Gorton]], however, explains the <ref></ref> | ||
===UK=== | ===UK=== | ||
| − | [[Peter Wright]] wrote that he was confronted by two of his [[MI5]] colleagues who told him: "[[ | + | [[Peter Wright]] wrote that he was confronted by two of his [[MI5]] colleagues who told him: "[[Harold Wilson|Wilson]]'s a bloody menace and it's about time the public knew the truth", and "We'll have him out, this time we'll have him out"<ref name=Wright369>Peter Wright, ''Spycatcher'' (William Heinemann, 1987), Ibid, p. 369.</ref> and that an MI5 plan to leak damaging information about Wilson was approved by "up to thirty officers".<ref name="Wright369"/> The plan was a 'carbon copy' of the [[Zinoviev Letter]] which helped destabilise the first Labour Government in 1924; as the 1974 election approached, MI5 would leak selected details of the intelligence about Labour leaders, especially Wilson, to 'sympathetic' journalists, using their press and the trade union contacts to spread around the idea that Wilson was considered a security risk. The matter was to be raised in [[UK Parliament|Parliament]] for 'maximum effect'.<ref name="Wright369"/> However Wright declined to let them see the files on Wilson and the plan was never carried out. |
Former MI5 officer [[James Miller]] stated on March 22, 1987 that the 1974 [[Ulster Workers Council Strike]] had been promoted by MI5 in order to help destabilise Wilson's government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch87.htm |title=Chronology of the Conflict 1987 |publisher=Cain.ulst.ac.uk|accessdate=2008-09-25}}</ref> | Former MI5 officer [[James Miller]] stated on March 22, 1987 that the 1974 [[Ulster Workers Council Strike]] had been promoted by MI5 in order to help destabilise Wilson's government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch87.htm |title=Chronology of the Conflict 1987 |publisher=Cain.ulst.ac.uk|accessdate=2008-09-25}}</ref> | ||
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| A coup d'état, also known as a coup, a putsch, or an overthrow, is the sudden deposition of a government, usually by a small group within the existing state establishment — often the military or secret services — to depose the extant government and replace it with another body, civil or military. |
Contents
Official Narrative
This phrase is mostly applied by the Western commercially-controlled media to small nations in Africa, Asia or South America. The label is rarely applied to such events in 'democratic' countries.
Problems
Power struggles are usually much more complex events that the commercially-controlled media has time or inclination to communicate. The official narrative about "coups d'état" is systematically oversimplified as a means of obscuring connections to subjects of domestic political significance. The story that 'developed' nation states dont tend to have such events, partly a reflection that modern coups operate in stealthier means such as through the use of deep events such as false flag attacks.
Examples
Most of the US Efforts to Suppress Democracy since 1945 were carried out secretly, and their full complexity often remains a matter of debate years or decades after the fact. This page will focus on such events in 'developed' countries. The last such military backed coup in US was the 1933 Business Plot, foiled by the integrity of Smedley Butler.
USA
Since 1945, the most obvious coup d'état in the USA has been the JFK Assassination. Watergate is also well understood as a coup d'état - this makes far more sense than the on of it as a political scandal.[1]
Some commentators have used the phrase "coup d'état" to describe subsequent political developments in US. Chris Hedges says that since Ronald Reagan the US he seen a "corporate coup d'état in slow motion". Kurt Vonnegut stated that "I myself feel that our country... might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d’etat imaginable".[2] Mark Gorton, however, explains the Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag;
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UK
Peter Wright wrote that he was confronted by two of his MI5 colleagues who told him: "Wilson's a bloody menace and it's about time the public knew the truth", and "We'll have him out, this time we'll have him out"[3] and that an MI5 plan to leak damaging information about Wilson was approved by "up to thirty officers".[3] The plan was a 'carbon copy' of the Zinoviev Letter which helped destabilise the first Labour Government in 1924; as the 1974 election approached, MI5 would leak selected details of the intelligence about Labour leaders, especially Wilson, to 'sympathetic' journalists, using their press and the trade union contacts to spread around the idea that Wilson was considered a security risk. The matter was to be raised in Parliament for 'maximum effect'.[3] However Wright declined to let them see the files on Wilson and the plan was never carried out.
Former MI5 officer James Miller stated on March 22, 1987 that the 1974 Ulster Workers Council Strike had been promoted by MI5 in order to help destabilise Wilson's government.[4]
In July 1987, Labour MP, Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the allegations of a former Army press officer, Colin Wallace, that the Army press office in Northern Ireland had been used in the 1970s as part of a smear campaign against Harold Wilson and other British and Irish politicians, codenamed Clockwork Orange.
Examples
| Page name | Perpetrators | Date | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 Turkish coup d'état | Coup led by the Turkish section of the stay-behind Gladio network | |||
| 1971 Turkish coup | The Turkish military threatened to coup unless a new government was established | |||
| 1980 Turkish coup | Turkey | |||
| 1981 Dutch Cabinet crisis | Netherlands The Hague | PM Dries van Agt was set-up (after a decade-long power struggle) to work with a lot of deep politicians, spooks, Israel's liaison Joop den Uyl, the Dutch Operation Gladio boss, a corrupt royal family and NATO. He never had a chance. | ||
| 1991 Moscow Coup attempt | An attempted coup | |||
| 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt | Venezuela | A failed CIA-backed coup attempt against President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. | ||
| 2014 Ukraine coup | Regime change war in Ukraine. | |||
| 2021 Swedish government crisis | Swedish Left Party | Sweden | The anti lockdown government in Sweden almost fell, but managed to regain confidence from MPs. | |
| Algiers putsch of 1961 | an attempt to get rid of Charles de Gaulle | |||
| Attempted Coup of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire | Jilletta Jarvis | US New Hampshire | An event in June 2021. | |
| Australia/1975 coup d'état | Australia Canberra | A UK/US deep state-backed covert "constitutional coup" to remove Gough Whitlam whom they saw as a loose cannon. | ||
| Bolivia/1980 coup d'état | CIA | Bolivia | ||
| Brazil/1964 coup d'état | ||||
| COVID-19 | A coronavirus "pandemic" that was it was initially claimed emerged randomly from a zoonotic jump in China. Used as the pretext for sweeping social changes in the direction of techno-totalitarianism, this structural deep event dominated the early 2020s, and exploited to get a significant proportion of the world's population to submit to "COVID vaccines". | |||
| COVID-19/Regime change | Many if not all of the most outspoken governments who deviated from the Official COVID-19 story appear to have been targeted by organised efforts to unseat them. | |||
| Chile/1973 coup | CIA Richard Nixon Henry Kissinger Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Felix Rohatyn Australian Secret Intelligence Service ITT Inc National Security Council | Chile | A CIA military intelligence operation that overthrew of the democratically elected Salvador Allende. | |
| Equatorial Guinea/2004 coup d'état attempt | Simon Mann Semantic Objects Mark Thatcher Jeffrey Archer Severo Moto Nick du Toit Ely Calil Crause Steyl Greg Wales | South Africa Equatorial Guinea | ||
| Guatemala/1954 coup | CIA United Fruit | Guatemala | A coup organised by the CIA to protect the profit of United Fruit. | |
| Guinea/2021 coup d'état | President opted for Russian vaccine - was removed from power by US trained officer 6 months later. | |||
| Iran/1953 coup d'état | CIA MI6 Seven Sisters | Iran | The first of many large scale coups was carried out at the behest of big oil, by the CIA. The report of the inaugural Bilderberg next year termed this "firm Western action in Persia ... [that] had produced successful results." | |
| Iranian Revolution | ||||
| JFK/Assassination | US/Deep state JFK/Assassination/Perpetrators | US Dallas Texas Grassy knoll | The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy was the seminal deep political event of modern times, perhaps even more than 9-11. Both were done by the same group. Subsequently the group assassinated RFK, MLK and many others to try to contain the truth. | |
| Jovenel Moïse/Assassination | SDS | Haiti | The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. | |
| Oman/1970 coup d'état | Qaboos bin Said al Said Hugh Oldman Brigadier John Graham | Oman Salalah | ||
| Operation Cage Action Plan | Ergenikon | Turkey | ||
| Plan Blue | Roger-Luc Aurouet Edme de Vulpian | France | An 1947 anti-communist conspiracy aimed at seizing power in France | |
| Sudan/2021 coup d'état | In October 2021, the Sudanese Prime Minister was kidnapped and the government was dissolved in a military coup. | |||
| The Business Plot | Al Smith Gerald MacGuire Grayson Murphy William Doyle Robert Clark Irénée Du Pont John Davis John Raskob | A military takeover of the USA planned by The Money Trust. Never enacted due to the character of the man they ill advisedly chose to head it Smedley Butler, who foiled the plot and decreased the group's influence. | ||
| Watergate coup | US/Deep state | Watergate Complex | This is framed by the official narrative as a simple case of political corruption, one which proves that "the system works", since the influential perpetrator was caught - if not actually brought to justice, since outgoing president Nixon was immediately pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford. In fact it may well have been the outworking of a deeper political power struggle at work. | |
| William McKinley/Assassination | New York State Buffalo Milburn House | The Assassination of William McKinley, a coup d'etat |
Coup d'état victims on Wikispooks
| Title | Perpetrators | Date | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Condé | President of Guinea, who was overthrown in September 2021. | |||
| Idriss Déby | President of Chad, who was killed in April 2021. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algiers putsch of 1961 | “An insurrectionary power has established itself in Algeria by a military pronunciamento... This power has an appearance: a quartet of retired generals. It has a reality: a group of officers, partisan, ambitious and fanatical. This group and this quartet possess an expedient and limited knowledge of things. But they only see and understand the Nation and the world distorted by their delirium. Their enterprise leads directly towards a national disaster ... I forbid any Frenchman, and first of all any soldier, to execute a single one of their orders ... In the face of the misfortune which hangs over the country and the threat to the Republic, having taken advice from the Constitutional Council, the Prime Minister, the president of the Senate, the president of the National Assembly, I have decided to invoke article 16 of the Constitution [on the state of emergency and full special powers given to the head of state in case of a crisis]. Starting from this day, I will take, directly if the need arises, the measures which seem to me demanded by circumstances ... Frenchwomen, Frenchmen! Assist me!” | Charles de Gaulle | 1961 |
| Mario Borghezio | “Gaddafi was a great leader, a true revolutionary who should not be confused with the new Libyan leadership swept into power by NATO's bayonets and by oil multinationals” | Mario Borghezio | 2011 |
| Wesley Clark | “And what happened in 9/11 is we didn’t have a strategy, we didn’t have bipartisan agreement, we didn’t have American understanding of it and we had instead a policy coup in this country, a coup, a policy coup. Some hard nosed people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform the rest of us.” | Wesley Clark | 2007 |
| Ralph McGehee | “The CIA is not now nor has it ever been a central intelligence agency. It is the covert action arm of the President's foreign policy advisers. In that capacity it overthrows or supports foreign governments while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear weapon capability, to support presidential policy. Disinformation is a large part of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target audience of its lies.” | Ralph McGehee | 1983 |
| US/Foreign policy | “Anybody who believes that a country's internal democracy is the determining factor in whether the West decides to move for violent regime change in that country, is a complete idiot. Any journalist or politician who makes that claim is more likely to be a complete charlatan than a complete idiot. In recent years, possession of hydrocarbon reserves is very obviously a major factor in western regime change actions.” | Craig Murray | January 2019 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Coordinating Regime Change in Iran and Venezuela | diplomatic communication | 25 August 2010 | Trowbridge Ford | Iran and Venezuela, prime candidates for regime change |
Official examples
| Name | Perpetrators | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Washington D.C. Riots | One of the most fortified positions in the US gets violently overrun by a group of Trump Supporters after a demonstration... without a single shot fired by the mob. Official narrative soon blamed Trump and extremists. Official opposition narrative soon blamed the democratic party trying to fraud Joe Biden into the White House. Several other governments were briefed by intelligence services that the incident seemingly "was being allowed" to happen. | ||
| 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine/Wagner coup attempt | Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin | Russia Rostov | An attempted coup, by some seen as false flag by Putin to lure out generals and double agents within the Russian State, by others as the sign the Russian state will collapse in the 2020s. |
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References
- ↑ The Ford Presidency & Watergate, KPFA
- ↑ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1100.htm
- ↑ a b c Peter Wright, Spycatcher (William Heinemann, 1987), Ibid, p. 369.
- ↑ "Chronology of the Conflict 1987". Cain.ulst.ac.uk. Retrieved 2008-09-25.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
