Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act , I ’ve receive CIA biographic reports on both the former Australian Prime MinisterGough Whitlamand the valet de chambre who polemically ousted him in 1975,John Kerr . But there ’s one guy require in “ The Dismissal ” that the CIA wo n’t release file cabinet on : former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser , the man who replaced Whitlam .
As I explainedyesterday , the ousting of the democratically elect free post-mortem examination Gough Whitlam was a total blow to Australia in November of 1975 . And ever since , people have had confederacy theories about what really happened to cause Kerr , a lone military man who was a member of Whitlam ’s own party , to fuddle out the regime . Were British or American intelligence service agency postulate because Whitlam defend the NSA spot site at Alice Springs ? All we have is rumors and hearsay from root like aformer Soviet spy . But my own efforts to get documents out of the CIA that would rig the record direct have been encounter with some underground .
I file a Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) request with the Central Intelligence Agency back in June need for biographic reports on Malcolm Fraser produced by the CIA from 1974 to 1976 . After Kerr dismissed Whitlam he installed the conservative Fraser as the headway of a caretaker government . When elections were eventually held Fraser was properly elect Prime Minister and served in that position until 1983 . But the CIA wo n’t release any of the honest-to-god biographic reports on Fraser — despite doing so for Whitlam , Kerr , and a number of other chassis not related to Australian political relation , like dictatorAugusto Pinochet .
inquisitively , I also filed a FOIA request with the FBI for any file it might have on Fraser and was tell that they do n’t have anything . As a foreign politico rather than a domestic one , it ’s slightly more plausible that the FBI would n’t have anything , but jolly unlikely contribute the fact that Fraser travel to the United States . In fact , Fraser was involved in a minor personal dirt in the US when he was find falter out of doors of a Memphis hotelwithout his pant in 1986 .
allot to an Associated Press write up at the meter , Fraser “ appeared in the entrance hall of the Admiral Benbow Inn fatigue only a shirt , tie and a towel wrapped around his waist . ” Fraser say he ’d been drugged and robbed .
There ’s currently a crowdfunding exploit in Australia led by Jenny Hocking ( author ofThe Dismissal Dossier ) to raise money for a legal challenge that mightget document on Kerr free . Specifically , they ’re appear for the letters exchanged between Kerr and the Queen , who it ’s now believed at least get it on about the dismissal before it happened .
Needless to say , I ’ve appealed the reply to my FOIA requests on papers about Malcolm Fraser at both the CIA and the FBI . But it ’s sure interesting that both agencies so far wo n’t release any documents on Fraser , even in redacted form .
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