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Using material drawn from a case study of the 1960 Turkish military revolt & the conspiratorial group that planned & executed it, the monograph analyzes military revolts carried out by conspiratorial groups in large, bureaucratically structured military organizations. The essay focuses on 3 topics: (1) the social structural conditions producing conspiratorial military groups; (2) their recruitment base; & (3) the dynamics of conspiratorial organizations. The monograph is divided into 3 sections (A) a discussion of Turkish development showing how the impetus to military discontent stemmed from changes in Turkish social structure & the declining position of the officer corps as a SC. (B) A discussion of the officer corps as a segmentalized group in which different categories have varying interests, political outlook, & political opportunity. Social structural changes are shown to have differential effect on different segments of the officer corps. (C) A discussion of the sociology of conspiratorial military groups showing how their existence is patterned by secrecy, illegitimacy, & lack of access to normal channels of political communication & influence. There are also discussions of the dilemmas of conspiratorial group existence, recruitment, organization, leadership, ideology, strategies, & tactics. Upwardly mobile staff officers are most prone to participate in conspiratorial groups & have the greatest potential for translating sociopolitical discontent into an effective military coup. AA.