[…] More interesting is the Defence Attache (June) piece by the pseudonymous P.Q. Mann, which suggested the affair was an intelligence-gathering mission. Mann’s piece is discussed by Andrew Wilson in The Observer, June 17. Lengthy extracts from the Mann piece are included in the current Intelligence (see Publications). The Mann piece is most striking for […]
[…] 955. Southwood and Flanagan, p. 59. Crouch, p. 114. Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to U.N.). Cf. Forbes Wilson, The Conquest of Copper Mountain (New York: Atheneum, 1981), pp. 153-55. Declassifed Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to […]
[…] of Oswald in Mexico City. In 1963 James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter intelligence branch, following up the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, […]
[…] thing. Real, named, scientists and industrialists are interested. But on the down side there are more bizarre claims by a now dead, allegedly much decorated, USAF Colonel Wilson about MJ12 et al. This includes an account of Wilson meeting a 8 foot female alien wearing a crystal ring on her finger from which emanated […]
[…] sections. The first hundred pages, and especially the first seventy-six pages, are an attempt to represent the Kennedy administration as a kind of US version of Harold Wilson. Kennedy, says Gibson, was a progressive social democrat: he was pro: manufacturing, growth, demand management and investment in the US; he was anti: finance capital, non-productive […]
[…] areas about which I do know something, there are some dumb mistakes. The Fluency Committee was not set up in Whitehall to examine the evidence that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent (p.148); Colin Wallace has not ‘admitted putting out anti-Wilson material in an operation known as Clockwork Orange’ (p.149). Do such minor errors […]
[…] in his account they are just part of the picture. This is not the only area Pearce refuses to take on board. There is nothing on the Wilson plots and the fact that Healey’s wartime flirtation with communism loomed large in MI5’s disinformation strategy. The entire 1974-7 period of hysteria on the right, intense […]
[…] assertion that ‘at sea drowning a cat was the very surest way of raising a favourable wind’. Elwell’s energetic attempts to drown figures as varied as Harold Wilson and Chris Mullin continued after his formal retirement from countering ‘domestic subversion’ as head of F section in 1979. Working with Margaret Thatcher’s aide during the […]
[…] by Flora Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed […]
[…] £15,000 from the Government and a £50,000 loan from Barclays Bank. It spent £85,000 on the development of ‘something’ but has no income. Curious. Directors John Henry Wilson Little Leys, Golden Common, Bramley, Surrey. Formerly of ‘Morecroft Securites Ltd. Sophia Hardy (as above) Robert Patrick Broadley-Wilson (as above) David Martin John O’Brien The Company […]
