It was 11-11-1975. I was a sixteen year-old Trotskyist
Socialist walking through the old Melbourne Post Office and stopped when I noticed
a Remembrance Day Ceremony taking place in it with a couple of Naval Sailors, a
floral reef being laid after he Last Post had been played for Australia’s war
dead. There was the minute’s silence and after that I then went into Socialist
Workers League/Socialist Youth Alliance office in Little Bourke. Then we heard
that Whitlam was sacked and we would join the protests that erupted that day
after his sacking. And I still remember Bob Hawke saying there was not going to
be a General Strike over Whitlam’s Sacking. It was a bloodless Coup D’état by
Australian Ruling Class,and US because he threatened the US Bases in particular
Pine Gap. Fifty years I’m still angered over it. If you have doubts about the
US role in it check Christopher Boyce’s and hear what he says about Hawke.
John/Togs Tognolini
In the 1970s, Christopher Boyce's name became
inextricably linked with the political tensions of the time when he was jailed
for selling classified US information to the KGB in the Soviet Union. The spy's
story was also made famous by the movie, The Falcon and The Snowman, but in
recent decades Boyce has been off the radar. Mark Davis tracks him down to the
mountains of Oregon, where he's been living in virtual anonymity since his
release from prison. In an explosive interview, Boyce recounts his time working
for a CIA subsidiary that provided satellite equipment to the spy base at Pine
Gap in central Australia. And he makes claims that during the time of Gough
Whitlam's troubled government, the CIA was interfering in Australian politics
and its trade unions. http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2014/...
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