Re: More on Whitlam's dismissal

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>In his book The Falcon and the Snowman, New York Times journalist Robert
>Lindsay speculated that information sold by two US spies to the Soviet
>Union about the operation of the CIA in Australia may have been relayed by
>the Russians to the ALP, and may have helped touch off the government-CIA
>dispute shortly before Sir John sacked Mr Whitlam.
>
>Mr Lindsay wrote the book after one of the spies, Christopher Boyce,
>claimed at his trial it was CIA activities in Australia during the Whitlam
>years that incensed him and turned him into an anti-American activist.
>
>Boyce worked for a communications company, TRW, that received and
>retransmitted CIA communications from, among other places, Pine Gap.
>
>Boyce claims that as the political crisis in Australia deepened, he heard
>agents at TRW refer to the governor-general as "our man Kerr". What this
>phrase means - and after the significant assumption that Boyce's claim is
>true - is unclear.

right.

Louis Proyect
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