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... in the mining industry and within an important banking group, he is also strongly tied up in the armaments industry. While MacGregor is our starting point, the article will range beyond him as an individual and will indicate the circles within which he moves, circles which overlap with, and are integrated into, the British State. Introduction When Thatcher was first elected to office in 1979, unemployment was already rising fast and the Labour Party leadership (Callaghan and Healey in particular) had, in practical terms, already been converted to 'monetarism'. (1 ) It was not long before Ian MacGregor was appointed to run British Steel.(2 ) The 'rescue plan' which ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-03.htm
... - Ed Meese, Michael Deaver - Holihan would use the offices of The Heritage Foundation and Fairness Committee, running up large bills which went unpaid. In 1983 he schemed with right-wing Oklahoma lawyer R. Marc Nuttle ( 'National Field Consultant' to the Committee For The Survival of a Free Congress) to lure Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to a luncheon for the Private Enterprises Foundation. It is claimed that Holihan's share of the proceeds was to be nothing less than $50,000. Unfortunately for Holihan the June 1983 election intervened and Thatcher cut short her US visit following the Williamsburg summit meeting. ANON. * * * The New York Times obtained transcripts of conversations ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-07.htm
... MI6's top man in Ulster, David Wyatt. Mr Wyatt, a casualty of the internal row in the intelligence services, was replaced by an MI5 officer. Described by one source as being a 'link with the foreign office', he was trusted by the Foreign Office mandarins even more than security overlord Sir Maurice Oldfield, appointed by Mrs Thatcher in 1979. The appointment in 1980 of Sir Brooks Richard, an ex-diplomat, as Security Co-ordinator in Northern Ireland, was seen as giving the Foreign Office 'game set and match in the mandarins' rivalries over who runs the various bits of British Intelligence. ' (Guardian 23/2 /81) When Wyatt ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-04.htm
... , its main activists being Dr. Julian Lewis, its 'Research Director', a Conservative who spent a brief time in the Labour Party defending Reg. Prentice in his dispute with the Newham Northeast Constituency; Edward Leigh M.P . (3 ), now M.P . for Gainsborough, who was principal correspondence secretary for Mrs Thatcher when she was leader of the opposition; and Francis Holihan, an American roller-skate businessman (4 ). The CPS has close relations with the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC), which has a known intelligence pedigree, links with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies,(5 ) ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Feb 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue03/lob03-03.htm
... Nigeria/Biafra, the Albanian operation of 1949, Kuwait in 1961. There is also an account of a period at the beginning of the 1970s of the war in Northern Ireland, what amounts to a revisionist history in miniature of WW2 intelligence operations on the British side, and a sardonic post-script on the Falklands: "Mrs Thatcher postured absurdly in the immediate aftermath .. .an illusion about an independent almost an imperial role comparable to that which regards nuclear weapons as deterrents to every variety of threat." (p338) The post-war illusion that Britain remained a 'Great Power' despite having had to asset strip the Empire to pay for the war is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Feb 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue03/lob03-05.htm
... unless specifically stated otherwise. (Guardian 24 September and Sunday Times 18 December 1983) Whitehall using pressure for Data Protection as argument for withdrawing official records from public view beyond normal 30 yrs. Remarks by Lord Donaldson, Ch'mn Advisory Council on Public Records in 24 th Annual Report of Public Records Office. (Guardian 1 July 1983.) Thatcher personally stops publication of two books: official histories of war-time MI5 and war-time counter intelligence operations. (Guardian 25 November and 8 December 1983) Anthony Lester QC lecture states UK increasingly isolated from Europe and Commonwealth by refusal to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into law. Notes individual petitions from UK ruled admissable ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Feb 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue03/lob03-06.htm
... the election, Whitehall's bureaucratic machine would have gone into action. "The first tactic of officials will be to brief Ministers on what insiders call 'reality' as opposed to 'gossip' in the Party's document." (More Hennessy 'gossip' .) 4. Secret Intelligence (Richard Norton-Taylor, G., June 6th 1983) Thatcher Advisers Refuse To Face M.P . 's Questions. (Peter Hennessy T. April 21 1983) The new Select Committees attempted to monitor the intelligence services and question the criteria for classification of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ documents. John Biffen, Leader of the House of Commons, said: "It is by no ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Sep 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue01/lob01-02.htm
... elements in the group, spent the latter half of the 1930s belabouring 'the Cliveden Set' without ever realising that they were the Round Table. The 'radical right' in America attacked the Round Table's various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the 'international communist conspiracy'. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the the enemies of the foreign policy 'establishment' without ever showing the slightest signs of understanding who it is they are hostile to. (16) Quigley's account comes to a halt after WW2. The Round Table group was one manifestation of the power of the British Empire, and as that disintegrated after ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Sep 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue01/lob01-23.htm
