Lobster Issue 11: April 1986
Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher
Covert Operations in British Politics 1974-78
Forward by Kevin McNamara MP
- Introduction by Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril
"Brutally summarised, our thesis is this. Mrs Thatcher (and 'Thatcherism') grew out of a right-wing network in this country with extensive links to the military-intelligence establishment. Her rise to power was the climax of a long campaign by this network which included a protracted destabalisation campaign against the Liberal and Labour Parties - chiefly the Labour Party - during 1974-76. We are not offering a conspiracy theory about the rise of Mrs Thatcher, but we do think that the outlines of a concerted campaign to discredit the other parties, to engineer a right-wing leader of the Tory Party, and then the right-wing government, is visible."
- An outline of the contents
- Preparing the ground
- Military manoevres
- Rumours of coups
- The 'private armies' of 1974 re-examined
- The National Association of Freedom
- Destabilising the Wilson government 1974-76
- Marketing the dirt
- Psy ops in Northern Ireland
- The central role of MI5
- Appendix 1: ISC, FWF, IRD
- Appendix 2: The Pinay Circle
- Appendix 3: FARI - Foreign Affairs Research Institute, INTERDOC
- Appendix 4: The Conflict Between MI5 and MI6 in Northern Ireland
- Appendix 5: TARA
- Appendix 6: Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 - non Army origin
- Appendix 7: John Colin Wallace 1968 - 76
- The Trial of Colin Wallace by Captain Fred Holroyd
- Biographies
- Bibliographies
56 Pages
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