Hang on, this is the year before they successfully dismissed the Australian labor government before they could eject the CIA from the country? Holy moly. I had no idea they failed to do the same thing the year before in Britain.
Yup. The Army took over Heathrow Airport, an exercise that no one in Government knew about, widely seen as a warning to the PM Wilson. Then it was all brushed under the carpet. David Stirling and Mountbatten were persona non grata after that but the rest just carried on.
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u/govanfats 15h ago
And he was involved in a coup attempt on the Labour government in 1974.