The British-American coup that ended Australian independence (2014)

The Wikipedia article [1] on the crisis has a whole lot of context that this clearly one-sided article neglected to go into. Needless to say, CIA involvement is a speculation and memoirs&#x2F;papers released since 2014 have not strengthened the case for it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;1975_Australian_constitutional...</a>

The movie &quot;The Falcon and the Snowman&quot; was a dramatization of a real event where a Snowden-like figure sold secrets to the Russians after reading the secret telexes when the CIA was trying to roll the Aussie government<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman</a>

It&#x27;s worth noting that there is mounting evidence that John Kerr, governor-general (and thus the Queen&#x27;s representative) at the time of the dismissal of the Australian government in 1975, was a CIA asset:<p><pre><code> &quot;&#x27;The Palace Letters&#x27; show Sir John Kerr sacked Gough Whitlam because the embattled PM had taken on the US Intelligence establishment&quot;</code></pre> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;radionational&#x2F;programs&#x2F;latenightlive&#x2F;guy-rundle_john-kerr&#x2F;12505310" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abc.net.au&#x2F;radionational&#x2F;programs&#x2F;latenightlive&#x2F;...</a><p>EDIT: Markup.