Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were ……….well, anything from ideologically unreliable to Soviet agents. In the Callaghan extract the […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher Covert operations in British politics 1974-1978 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril Introduction: Kevin McNamara MP Any person who lived through the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
What was Henry Brandon? One of the most interesting secondary sources covering the struggles of the British Labour government under Harold Wilson to prevent the devaluation of sterling between 1964-66 is Henry Brandon’s In the Red, published by Andre Deutsch in 1966. It is a remarkably well-informed text and its reliability is underlined by […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] – Heath, Van Straubenzee, St. John Stevas, Thorpe Child prostitution: William McGrath, Van Straubenzee, Clifford Smyth Wilson’s affair with Marcia Williams (Secretary) in Moscow Finance: Maudling, Thorpe, Wilson, Short etc. Fianna Fail: Charles Haughey – IRA/drugs link. Bill Fuller ‘Old (illegible) Hotel’ Norman Frank Butler/Sammy Smyth UDA Jackie Watson: Billy Hull LAW funds Paisley: […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] increased arms expenditure – overseas expenditure paid for by domestic cuts – proposed by Labour Chancellor Gaitskell which led to the resignation of Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson from the government in 1951. The Tories return The arrival of the Conservative Government in 1951 saw the return of interest rates – that is, putting […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] the future.’ Mountbatten later recollected that ‘…King was a man filled with folie de grandeur…I said, “This is rank treason. Out.” ‘ King continued to rail against Wilson through the columns of the Daily Mirror but without support from other public figures he became a figure of fun.(2) Although his own ‘coup’ failed, King […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] without recourse to conspiracy theory. The Group was formed out of the merger of a small group of business interests who had supported the private offices of Wilson and Callaghan with a much broader group of pro-Labour Keynesian academics and economists the sort who were thoroughly dished by Geoffrey Howe’s determination to push […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] May 1988 issue of Middle East International carries an interesting article on the rise (but not yet fall) of a former high-ranking MOSSAD officer who, like Edwin Wilson, has turned his previous clandestine experience into profit through shady arms dealing. Mike Harari, leader of MOSSAD’s Munich revenge hit-squad exposed in 1973 after the Lillehammer […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] this is Pencourt revisited. But revisited by Freeman: this is his reworking of the Pencourt material. Pencourt – Penrose and Courtiour – had been commissioned by Harold Wilson to investigate the plots against him but, unable to get to the bottom of that, they ended up doing the Thorpe/Norman Scott story. I would guess […]
