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The British-American coup that ended Australian independence (2014)

• Taniwha 5y ago
  The movie "The Falcon and the Snowman" was a dramatization of a real event where a Snowden-like figure sold secrets to the Russians after reading the secret telexes when the CIA was trying to roll the Aussie government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman
  • Taniwha 5y ago
    (forgot to include not just any attempt to roll the Aussie govt but the very one mentioned in this article)
• conz 5y ago
  It's worth noting that there is mounting evidence that John Kerr, governor-general (and thus the Queen's representative) at the time of the dismissal of the Australian government in 1975, was a CIA asset: "'The Palace Letters' show Sir John Kerr sacked Gough Whitlam because the embattled PM had taken on the US Intelligence establishment" https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/guy-rundle_john-kerr/12505310 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/... EDIT: Markup.
• kspacewalk2 5y ago
  The Wikipedia article [1] on the crisis has a whole lot of context that this clearly one-sided article neglected to go into. Needless to say, CIA involvement is a speculation and memoirs/papers released since 2014 have not strengthened the case for it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional...
  • conz 5y ago
    On the contrary, (As noted elsewhere in this forum) There is mounting evidence that John Kerr was a CIA asset: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/guy-rundle_john-kerr/12505310 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/...
  • hulitu 5y ago
    Of course is a speculation. When you control the information everything you do is a speculation.
• redis_mlc 5y ago
  > Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. lol. Australia is incapable of defending itself from any of its neighbors, let alone China. It is not an "independent state." As an aside, both Japan and Indonesia very nearly became Communist, so thank the CIA for them being democracies. "Communist Attempts to Take Over Japan in the 1950s - COLD WAR" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na9Wj7n_MQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na9Wj7n_MQg