Further to Brian Toohey’s letter on the 1975 coup
Brian Toohey draws our attention to the US dimension of the November 1975 coup overthrowing the elected federal government.
Jenny Hocking has brilliantly uncovered in the Palace Letters the role in the coup of the then Queen and then Governor-General.
It is of interest that a later Attorney-General, Gareth Evans, showed an apparent lack of interest in uncovering the US dimension.
In a 29 year old letter to me, Justin Brown, replying for the A-G, approved the sentence of 25 years gaol of the US whistleblower Christopher Boyce, who in his role at TRW had seen evidence of the interference of the US intelligence agencies in our government, and was not going to try and save him.
The Labor government did not answer another question posed about whether it would use glasnost to access the KGB files in Mexico City to establish the truth of Boyce’s allegations that the US was involved in destabilising the elected government of this country, as the US had recruited our ASIS to help do in Chile a little earlier.
So for instance Labor’s Rex Connor was defeated in his attempt to develop our oil and gas Norway style, that is, owned by the nation.