[…] Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on the work of the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office: the […]
[…] versions the cover-up is presumed to be the work of the group which organised the assassination.) The closest anyone has come to identifying such a meta-conspiracy is Fletcher Prouty. In his book The Secret Team (1) he described a loose alliance of individuals centred round the upper echelons of the CIA, with members elsewhere […]
[…] MI5 at the Wapping gulag. I wrote to Mr Greenslade pointing out these earlier events but to date have received no reply. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher Joe Vialls’ exploration of this murder – which he thinks he committed, while under some kind of mind control – has taken a significant lurch forward. […]
[…] Service or News Service, a sort of Agitprop outfit. Kelly moved into a house in Hemmingford Road, Islington, some time last winter. He shares it with Richard Fletcher who is on the London Co-op Education Committee, (strong links with East Germany) this is at 104 Hemmingford Road, N7. I went to the house one […]
[…] member Menger, and messers Ikle, Sanchez, Reich and General Paul Gorman, all second-level members of the military/intelligence establishment. (The ‘Cabal’ is, of course, strikingly similar to L. Fletcher Prouty’s ‘secret team’.) The most interesting point in the Observer piece is the claim that the crisis was being stage-managed primarily to screw-up the approaching arms/disarmaments […]
[…] left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust Young because he was secretive and he didn’t know what Young’s objectives were. L. Fletcher Prouty died on 5 June 2001. Most of the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald […]
[…] of the covert activities described in Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action reviewed in this issue. The Pentagon Papers may have been a CIA operation: Fletcher Prouty has long maintained this, and he was sitting at the focal point between the Agency and the Pentagon. And Verrier has certainly had an awful […]
[…] Who they? you ask. That I don’t know. Details at http://www.directa.force9.co.uk Heavy weather An impressive reworking of the evidence that the Libyans did not kill WPC Yvonne Fletcher was published in Squall and is – or was – on their Website at www.squall.co.uk/ yes/ind2.html Drug wars and Another view of the Afghani mujahidin funding […]
[…] was (a) investigated at close range, (b) financially ruined and (c) eased out of rocket research. Or he could have been a combination of all three. L. Fletcher Prouty says in the book that he thinks Hubbard’s service records may have been ‘sheep dipped’. Whatever the history of this episode, Parsons, post-Hubbard, attracted further […]
[…] and reasonable. Lashmar ends the book unclear as to how much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the […]
