There are a lot of different conspiracy hypothesis about what happened to the Australian governance in November of 1975 . In a surprise move , the ultra large-minded Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was fired by a lonely humankind using parliamentary procedures that no one had expected . That man was John Kerr . And Gizmodo has now obtained the CIA ’s internal biographic report on him .
Back in June , I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Central Intelligence Agency for biographic reports on Sir John Kerr , the 18th Governor - General of Australia . The freshly declassify reputation from February 27 , 1976 report Kerr ’s job as “ characteristically apolitical ” but that he “ astound the country ” when he took it upon himself to throw out Whitlam and appoint a caretaker authorities .
Kerrdismissed Whitlamon November 11 , 1975 , sending the country reeling into a inherent crisis . Such a thing had never been done before or since in Australia . And people have long suspect that British and US intelligence agencies were involved . Whitlam was put back as Prime Minister with the materialistic Malcolm Fraser .
Why would US intelligence brass care about get Prime Minister Whitlam out of office staff ? Whitlam was a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War , despite Australia ’s commitment of troops to crusade alongside the Americans — something that could n’t be said of even a country like Canada . But more importantly to the cabal theorists , Whitlam counterbalance the NSA web site in Alice Springs , Australia ( known asPine Gap ) that was being used to spot on nearly all of Asia .
One of the thing that conspiracy theorists hang their chapeau on is testimonial from a former US intelligence decipherer ( turned Soviet spy ) who says that he learn someone from the CIA refer to the Governor - General as “ our man Kerr ” shortlybefore the dismissal . But most historians still are n’t convinced that US or British intelligence agency agencies orchestrated the ouster of Whitlam . It has since been revealed that the Queen at least knew about it , but beyond that , most think that Kerr acted alone to break a dead end in the Senate , which has been the prescribed line since it happened . Kerr ’s personal papers sit in the Australia National Archives and are n’t schedule to be released until theyear 2027 .
So what can we instruct from this newly declassify CIA report ? Not much , regrettably , aside from perhaps that the CIA decided to only relinquish one report .
Unlike other CIA biographic reports that I ’ve obtained ( like those on Chilean dictatorAugusto Pinochet ) , there is only one version . In the case of Pinochet , I get multiple reports spanning just a few years . With Kerr , I specifically requested all reports make from 1973 through 1976 . But the CIA has liberate just one report from February 27 , 1976 — dated just a few month after the sacking .
It seems unlikely that the CIA , even if they had been involved , would put such information into a unsubdivided biographic study . But when it comes to the historic 1975 dismissal of Australia ’s democratically elected government , you have to turn over every rock and roll . Perhaps some better trained eyes can recount me if there ’s anything authoritative in here that I ’m missing ..
Take it away , internet .
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