[…] ‘anarchist threat’ has its own (slight) intellectual support unit, the Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism. RFST’s trustees are Paul Wilkinson, Michael Ivens of Aims, Norris McWhirter of the Freedom Association and John Newton Scott. Its address is 40 Doughty Street, the address of Aims. Their first contribution came out at the end […]
[…] 11 1986). Lewis, one of the founders of the Coalition for Peace Through Security, is a member of something called Policy Research Associates, with Chalfont and Norris McWhirter said to be its patrons. (Daily Telegraph 19 November 1986). MMU seems to have come out of Policy Research Associates. Funds for MMU were raised by […]
[…] became chair by 1973 and Lady Jane Birdwood, in 1971 on BLEF’s national executive. Other familiar names on the Right mentioned in Lobster 11 gathered round: Ross McWhirter, Tom Stacey (the publisher and leading member of the British Chile lobby), and John Biggs-Davison (Monday Club) were speakers in 1971 at the BLEF-organised ‘Captive Nations […]
[…] people Lobster 11 was interested in are here, 14 years before it: Kitson, Stewart-Smith, (“the CIA’s man in the House of Commons”), Walter Walker, Lady Birdwood, the McWhirter Brothers, Gerald Howarth and the Society for Individual Freedom – all feature in this curious document alongside various other lesser known figures from the racist and […]
[PDF file]: […] courses. (8) In London the former no. 2 at MI6 and Monday Club activist, George Kennedy Young, began setting up the Unison Committee for Action with Ross McWhirter. In short, by the end of 1973 an array of organisations on the political right – and the list above is by no means exhaustive – […]
[PDF file]: […] by the Pinay Circle.2 9 Crozier set out the formation of ‘Shield’ after a meeting with Thatcher in 1976, hosted by Viscount De L’Isle. This included Norris McWhirter, John Gouriet (a right-wing activist and businessman connected to Aims of Industry) and Robert Moss – largely the founding members of the NAFF. Later meetings included […]
