Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Derided as the "captain of a wrecked ship," Smiley tries to find a coup so stunning it will restore the Circus' reputation?and funding. From the outset, he has one obsessive target: Karla, head of Soviet agent operations, whose spectral face stares down from its frame in Smiley's office. The relationship of the opposing spymasters, playing international chess for men's souls, is worth a book in itself. Karla is an evil genius who once instructed his mole to seduce Smiley's wife?to make the Briton doubt his motives for suspecting Haydon. Smiley's pure, patriotic zeal...
...year, a plot that took on the code name of "Track II." A team player in the best Nixonesque sense of the word, Helms instructed CIA operatives to contact the most powerful elements in the Chilean Right that fall, hoping to pressure Allende's opponents into staging a military coup that would abort the Popular Unity government's planned experiment in democratic socialism. In the course of carrying out Nixon's orders, the CIA developed a very special relationship with an American multinational worried about the fate of its massive Chilean investments--the International Telephone and Telegraph Company...
...maintain these far-flung business operations without any sophisticated communications network, the companies employed "agents." bagmen who, for exorbitant fees, greased palms and took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have...
Bhutto, who was unseated by a military coup last July 5, is in deep, deep trouble. The most serious accusation against him is, in effect, murder by proxy. He allegedly ordered his paramilitary Federal Security Force to get rid of a troublesome opposition politician, Ahmed Raza Kasuri. During the second of two attacks on Kasuri in 1974, gunmen sprayed the politician's car with bullets; they missed Kasuri but killed his father. According to government sources, five security-force officials have testified that they were acting on Bhutto's orders at the time...
Four years ago, the Chilean army attacked with brutal force the hundreds of Chilean workers who fought to defend Allende's government. Hundreds of students who resisted the coup were rounded up and placed in Santiago's National Stadium, where more than 200 were shot as the other watched, helpless. Victor Jara, a young Chilean folksinger, sang to the people in the stadium as the junta's soldiers tortured and finally killed...