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

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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...

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/...

Of course is a speculation. When you control the information everything you do is a speculation.

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

(forgot to include not just any attempt to roll the Aussie govt but the very one mentioned in this article)

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/...

EDIT: Markup.

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