by Dreams End » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:27 am
Here's another quote that talks specifically about Marshall Green, a particularly notorious CIA coup specialist. <br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Clyde Cameron: Well, his method of operation was to make close<br>contact with the military of a particular country, those who own<br>and control the media, and to generally infiltrate the sections of<br>governments where policy or decision-making takes place. And if he<br>is unsuccessful in giving the right decisions there, well, the next<br>step would always be to get the army to organise a coup. That's<br>what happened in Indonesia, a phoney uprising was organised by the<br>CIA in order to give justification for the military coup that<br>followed. And the same happened with the assassination of Deben in<br>South Korea. Where a ruler is unable to bring about the kind of<br>decisions that suits the CIA or where a ruler doesn't even try to<br>do so, then, the next step is to organise some pretence for<br>military action. The same sort of thing happened in Chile in 1973. <br>And one of the first people he called on after visiting the Prime<br>Minister and having already put in his credentials to the Governor-<br>General was me. And as he was walking through the door of my<br>office I saluted him in the normal way, `please to meet you your<br>excellency, take a seat,' and before he could take a seat I said<br>`what would you do if our government decided to nationalise the<br>Australian subsidiaries of the various American multinational<br>corporations?' and he'd been caught by surprise, he wasn't<br>accustomed to a minister asking that sort of question whilst he was<br>in the process of taking his seat, and he blurted out: `oh, we'll<br>move in'. I said, `oh, move in? like bringing the marines in?. He<br>said, `oh...' he looked a bit uncomfortable by now, although he's<br>a senior man he didn't expect being caught off guard, he was very<br>uncomfortable and he said, `oh, no, the days of sending the marines<br>has passed but there are plenty of other things we could do'. I<br>said, `for example?'. He said, `well, trade'. And I said, `do you<br>realise that if you stop trading with Australia you would be the<br>loser to the extent of 600 million dollars a year', that was the<br>balance of trade figures at that time. He said, `oh, well, there<br>are other things'. And he didn't elaborate but, of course, there<br>are other things.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>