Gough Whitlam

Gough Whitlam      (politician)
Born	Edward Gough Whitlam 1916-07-11 Kew, Melbourne, Australia
Died	2014-10-21 (Age 98) Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, Australia
Alma mater	Mowbray House School, Knox Grammar School, Telopea Park School, Canberra Grammar School, University of Sydney
Children	• Tony • Nicholas • Stephen Catherine
Spouse	Margaret Whitlam
Victim of	1975 Australian coup
Interest of	Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Party	Australian Labor Party
An Australian Prime minister who tried to tread an independent path and rein in the nascent SDS. Ousted in 1975 by a CIA backed coup.  Prime Minister of Australia In office 5 December 1972 - 11 November 1975 Preceded by William McMahon Succeeded by Malcolm Fraser Ousted by the CIA and MI6 in the Australian 1975 coup d'état  Australia/Minister for Foreign Affairs In office 5 December 1972 - 6 November 1973  Australia/Leader of the Opposition  In office 11 November 1975 - 22 December 1977 Preceded by Malcolm Fraser Succeeded by Bill Hayden  Australia/Leader of the Opposition  In office 9 February 1967 - 5 December 1972 Succeeded by William McMahon  Australia/Leader of the Labor Party In office 9 February 1967 - 22 December 1977 Succeeded by Bill Hayden  Australia/Deputy Leader of the Labor Party In office 7 March 1960 - 9 February 1967  Member of the Australian Parliament for Werriwa In office 29 November 1952 - 31 July 1978  Minister for Foreign Affairs In office 5 December 1972 - 6 November 1973

Gough Whitlam was an Australian politician. His independence from the (then emerging) Supranational Deep state caused them to organise a covert coup that removed him from office in 1975. The US deep state was involved, and possibly also Le Cercle.

Career

Whitlam became Prime Minister of Australia on 5 December 1972 and quickly began a series of reforms which distanced Australia from UK, its former colonial master, and from USA. Some of his ministers publicly condemned the American’s indiscriminate bombing of towns, civilian targets and dense population centres as corrupt and barbaric. Whitlam also expressed his unhappiness about the Pine Gap spy station in the middle of Australia, spying on everyone including civilians, government and military.

Gough Whitlam shut down the ASIS operation in Chile in April 1973, five months before the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat, reportedly out of concern that if the public became aware of it, “he would find it extremely difficult to justify our presence there.”

Removal

Full article: 1975 Australian coup

The "Whitlam Problem" was considered such a threat to US hegemony and control over Australia that they dispatched their problem solver of the moment, ‘Coup Master’ Marshall Green, to Canberra as Ambassador.

The deep political milieu, Le Cercle, has been accused of destabilizing Gough Whitlam's government because it opposed a conservative economic agenda.