Conspiracy You Can Believe In Patrick Winegar

In 1973, the democratically elected socialist government of Chile under Salvador Allende was toppled by a far-right coup. What followed was 17 years of oppression under a reactionary, sadistic military dictatorship. Through decades of investigations, court cases, and declassification of records, we know now how the Pinochet regime came to power: through the CIA and the U.S. State Department.

SOURCES:

The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh

https://thenewpress.com/books/pinochet-file



The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/



The True Verdict on Allende by E. Bradford Burns

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/true-verdict-allende/



The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful Toll by Orlando Letelier

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-chicago-boys-in-chile-economic-freedoms-awful-toll/



Giant Rally Marks Allende Anniversary by Jonathan Kandell

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/05/archives/giant-rally-marks-allende-anniversary-professional-workers-strike.html

In 1957, Ghana became one of the first countries in Africa to free itself from European rule. As the country's leader, Kwame Nkrumah, began to advocate for a pan-African confederation, US intelligence services would close in. The CIA and the old colonial rulers would try to sabotage independence movements across the continent.



SOURCES

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Neocolonization of Africa by Susan Williams: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/susan-williams/white-malice/9781541768284/



The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte: https://www.versobooks.com/books/792-the-assassination-of-lumumba



Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa by Susan Williams: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/who-killed-hammarskjold-2/



The Intelligence Coup of the Century by Greg Miller of the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/



Strike Against Government's Austerity Programme by Keesing's Record of World Events: http://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/1417-1961-11-KS-a-RCW.pdf

On November 11, 1975, Gough Whitlam was removed from office as Prime Minister of Australia. He was dismissed by his own Governor-General, John Kerr, a man who held what was largely believed to be a ceremonial position as the representative of the British Crown. The Dismissal would spark decades of debate in Australia. But recently unearthed records show that Kerr did not act on his own. He had the full support of the country's conservative establishment, encouragement from US and Australian intelligence, and advice from Buckingham Palace.

SOURCES

The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam by Jenny Hocking
https://scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-palace-letters-9781922310248



The Dismissal: 40 years on by Paul Daley

https://dismissed.moadoph.gov.au/hashtag-dismissal-1975.html



The Dismissal - 10th Anniversary by Australia Channel 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8HFJ9ZC8U



The Kerr Palace Letters - National Archives of Australia

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/kerr-palace-letters



In the 1970s, a Soft Coup Removed Australia’s Left-Wing Prime Minister by Guy Rundle

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/gough-whitlam-dismissal-letters-john-kerr-australia



Gough Whitlam’s Government Was the Victim of a Right-Wing Coup by Conor Flynn

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/gough-whitlam-australian-labor-party-right-wing-coup-john-kerr



Rundle: proving the CIA-backed conspiracy that brought down Whitlam by Guy Rundle

https://www.crikey.com.au/2015/11/25/rundle-proving-the-cia-backed-conspiracy-that-brought-down-whitlam/



CIA, Kerr, Barwick and 1975 by Humphrey McQueen

https://labourhistorycanberra.org/2016/07/cia-kerr-barwick-and-1975/



Australian House of Representatives Debates - 4 May 1977

http://historichansard.net/hofreps/1977/19770504_reps_30_hor105/



CIA Issue Enters Australian Crisis by Fox Butterfield special to the New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/06/archives/cia-issue-enters-australian-crisis-whitlam-says-an-opposition-chief.html



How Australia Won Universal Healthcare - and How Workers Saved it with a General Strike by Anthony O'Donnell

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/australia-universal-health-care-whitlam-administration-medibank-medicare-alp-actu-strike

During this bonus episode, we'll give a condensed history of the Spanish Civil War: the major players, what caused the conflict, the course of the war, and the consequences of Franco's victory.



SOURCES

Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/spain-in-our-hearts-adam-hochschild?variant=39936156172322



The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/309382.The_Spanish_Civil_War



The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-39 by Gabriel Jackson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308404.The_Spanish_Republic_and_the_Civil_War_1931_39

Spain, 1936: After the the left-wing Popular Front coalition achieved victory at the polls, a confederacy of right-wing generals plotted to defeat it on the battlefield. Francisco Franco and his fascist allies in Italy and Nazi Germany would eventually defeat the democratically elected government of Spain. But they did it with plenty of support from an American oil company--Texaco.



SOURCES

Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/spain-in-our-hearts-adam-hochschild?variant=39936156172322



The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/309382.The_Spanish_Civil_War



The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-39 by Gabriel Jackson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308404.The_Spanish_Republic_and_the_Civil_War_1931_39



Oil: Exit Rieber, Time Magazine

https://web.archive.org/web/20101014080648/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764502,00.html

On November 13, 1974, a nuclear lab technician named Karen Silkwood was reported dead in a single-car accident just outside Oklahoma City. Silkwood was on her way to meet a reporter from the New York Times to deliver evidence that her employer, Kerr-McGee, was hiding records of defective nuclear fuel rods. This evidence has never been found. Shortly after the crash, Karen's friends and co-workers began to question the official record of her car accident. Further investigation would reveal that her death might not have been an accident after all.



SOURCES:

The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case by Richard Rashke

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1193179.The_Killing_of_Karen_Silkwood



Karen Silkwood: The Case of the Activist's Death by Howard Kohn

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/karen-silkwood-the-case-of-the-activists-death-52287/



Karen Silkwood Remembered 1946--1974 by Tony Mazzocchi, BMWE Journal, November/December 1999 

https://www.bmwe.org/journal/1999/12dec/b04.htm



Paper in Nashville Dismisses Writer Linked to the F.B.I. by David Burnham, New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/08/archives/paper-in-nashville-dismisses-writer-linked-to-the-fbi-newspaper-in.html