[…] parapsychologist Edward Naumov, mentioned above, who was the key Soviet contact for the authors of Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, was sentenced to two years hard labour for a semi-related petty offence and remanded to a psychiatric ‘treatment facility’.(9) The change in the official line seems to have been an attempt not only […]
[…] Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan Powell finds the […]
[…] inexplicable British history became intelligible. Wallace’s revelations illuminated the hysteria on the British right in the 1970s about the threat from the left and the belief of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson that there was a disinformation campaign against him and his government. He was right: the hysteria and the campaign were largely the […]
[…] his intelligence connections were maintained because shortly before his death he discussed with former operatives of the intelligence services the possibility of ‘stopping’ Tony Benn MP if Labour came to power. (New Statesman 20 February 1981). Unlike her predecessors, Mrs Thatcher had maintained an interest in intelligence matters while in opposition. Through journalist Chapman […]
[…] class finds itself in, not least when it comes to religion and the threat of a US-led invasion. Despite Islam being the ideological underpinning of the repressive labour (and other laws), most Iranians remain Muslims and would want any political changes to respect that. This accounts for the comparative lack of success of more […]
[…] 20, proposed by Griffin and seconded by Anderson). Given there was little practical outcome concerning the policy of a ‘Return to the Land’, save perhaps for free labour being carried out by NF members to renovate various properties owned by Nick Griffin over the years, it hardly needs consideration here. It is noteworthy that […]
[…] and political trends in Australia and South East Asia. He outlined to them the strategy to bring Robert Hawke to power.. He forecast that Hawke would be Labour Leader by late 1982 and Prime Minister by 1983. Hawke would also be in power for ten years and not for one term. (Hawke PM John […]
[…] anything positive and the minutes of the Cabinet meeting at which MI5 presented their evidence are still suppressed. Charles Higham, as always, is certain: Pressed by the Labour Party leader, Clement Attlee, he (Churchill) instantly acted to destroy the entire group that was planning a negotiated peace with Hitler.’ (8) Higham lists the consequences: […]
[…] the broadcasting regulations – yet another falsehood.’ I have no sympathy for Robin Cook who has turned out to be at least as useless as any other Labour Minister, but readers of this column may remember that in issue 36 I described how Pilger had sent me a long letter and demanded I publish […]
[…] seriously.Incidentally, Count Otto von Hapsburg, the diplomat who the authors claim to be a member of the Priory, also features in the conspiracy theories of the US Labour Party. The belief in sinister and mysterious bodies that are deliberately spreading diseases is a very clear link between the witch mania of the Reformation and […]
