[…] militants to serve as the junior partners with US covert operations in the protection of US interests.” (RR) 16. The bodies continue to pile up around Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil. IHT (30th April 1983) reports death “by apparent suicide” of Waldo Duberstein, senior DIA analyst, who had been indicted on charges of selling […]
[…] March 2009, p .6 ‘Unearthing Britain’s Cold war nuclear history: the secret Chevaline project’, University of Nottingham press release, 25 June 2008 See also: Kristan Stoddart, ‘The Wilson Government and British responses to anti-ballistic Missiles, 1964-1970’, Contemporary British History, 23 (1), March 2009, pp. 1-33. For further information on Chevaline see James Harkin, ‘Middleman […]
[…] which, given the allegation that Goldsmith attended the meeting between the G. K.Young-Anthony Cavendish ‘action group’, UNISON, and Peter Wright, may have some bearing on the ‘ Wilson plots’. If there was a connection between the campaigns against both Wilson and Willy Brandt, as some believe, was it ‘the Pinay Circle’ which co-ordinated the […]
[…] PO Box 30, Mapleton, Queensland 4560, Australia. Cold war history Students of the cold war should take note of an extraordinary project being run by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. The Cold War International History Project is attempting to keep track of, and summarise the results of, the opening […]
The assassinations of the sixties JFK Farewell America On the site of The Coalition On Political Assassinations(1) is a very interesting essay by William Turner, ‘RFK, Charles de Gaulle and the Farewell America plot’, about the events leading up to the publication of the book Farewell America about the Kennedy assassination.(2) This may be marginalia […]
[…] annual rate of inflation had risen, seemingly inexorably, from 3 per cent under the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964, to 4 per cent under the first Wilson administration, to 9 percent under Heath and to 15 percent under the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. By the time Margaret Thatcher became the Prime […]
[…] in 1974. And then? Well – not very much, publicly: 18 years on the back-benches during which he called for an enquiry into the plots to destabilise Wilson and voted against the Poll Tax. But privately, it was a different matter. Harding, Leigh and Pallister dive into News of the World territory with a […]
[…] and 139). Of that group, only Benn mattered at all, and in the period Crozier is writing of, post 1974, he was completely marginalised by Prime Ministers Wilson and Callaghan. Yes, there were Labour MPs — a handful — who were still friendly with the Soviet bloc. Mr Crozier will not be shocked to […]
[…] For more seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and important texts have not been […]
Since 1945, an Agricultural Revolution has occurred in Britain whose significance and impact outstrip anything which occurred in the 18th century. It has turned farming from the practice of husbandry into a form of industrial production, transformed the landscape through its destructive effects on traditional features and substantially changed the nature of the food we […]
