Tuesday,
January 15, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
Let
me get this Straight........... Western Democracies
(like the
And
Oppressive Monarchies, Dictators, or Military that are
"sympathetic" to our positions, or do as we tell them, regardless
of how oppressive they are to their citizens, such as
Is
there something wrong with this picture.???
Keep in mind that Italian
Communists had ties to
The
British government considered backing a rightwing coup in
Foreign Office
planners wrote in May 1976 that "a clean surgical coup" to remove the
Communists from power "would be attractive in many ways", according
to documents obtained from the British national archives and published
yesterday by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
But planners
concluded the idea was "unrealistic" since it could lead to
"prolonged and bloody" resistance by Italian communists, a potential
civil war and even intervention by the
At the height of the cold war, alarm bells were
ringing in London as the governing Christian Democrats grew weak through
infighting while Enrico Berlinguer's Communists edged
closer to taking power in elections due to be held in June.
"(Berlinguer's) entry into government would create a serious
problem for Nato and the
European Community and could turn out to be an event with catastrophic
consequences," Sir Guy Millard, the British ambassador to
A Foreign Office
memo in April had listed options for tackling the Communist ascendancy, ranging
from financing rival parties to "subversive or military intervention
against the Italian Communist party".
Fears receded as
the Christian Democrats finished 4% ahead of the Communists in the lower house
of parliament.
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