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CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal is an allegation that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, which culminated in the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
Nov 8, 2019 · When Whitlam publicly attacked Stallings and insisted on a list of CIA operatives in Australia, as well as an investigation into activities in Pine Gap, alarm bells sounded at CIA headquarters. The same was true inside Australia’s military and intelligence sector.
Jul 16, 2020 · The Whitlam government had already put a stop to cooperation by ASIS (Australia’s foreign intelligence agency) with the CIA in its efforts to overturn Chile’s Salvador Allende government — an act that caused supreme annoyance, since the CIA relied on intelligence agencies from the other “Five Eyes” nations to do deep cover work.
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June 19, 1974. File: Body: Approved for Release: 2021/04/29 C06589350 (Edward) Gough WHITLAM Prime Mrnister Gough (rhymes with cough) Whitlam became Prime Minister of Aus- tralia in December 1972, when he led the Austra- lian Labor Party (ALP) to its first victory in federal elections in almost a quarter of a century.
The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as ...
Aug 29, 2016 · The Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was unexpectedly dismissed (which is to say fired) by a man named John Kerr, the Governor-General of Australia. Rumors have swirled for years about whether...
Oct 16, 2015 · Gough Whitlam ordered ASIO to stop talking to its US counterparts, the CIA, in the turbulent period leading up to the dismissal of his Labor government in 1975. The incident is revealed in the second officially sanctioned volume of the history of ASIO, which covers the years 1963-1975.
