[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of which he was Secretary. Published in 1968, an A2 format pamphlet, Biafra included some acute insights into the politics of oil, the feeble response of the Wilson Government, and the role of the tame British Africa correspondents recycling the Foreign Office line — almost everything, in fact, except the Harold Smith material. Non-lethal […]
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 […]
[…] sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo-liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes on as a lefty, the inheritor of […]
[…] the 1918-1939 period. Robert Lansing was the uncle of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. It is not at all clear how much either Lansing or Woodrow Wilson knew about central and eastern Europe. The Lansing Declaration was made during the US mid-term Congressional Elections. In the last act of the cataclysm favoured by […]
[…] pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and UFOs’. Number 6, Winter 1992, has an interview with Deborah Davis on Katherine Graham, Mary Meyer etc; ‘Was the Turin Shroud Buried?’, […]
[…] in the 50s, 60s and 70s, where there was no public triumphalism, and their role in the 1980s. ‘The Britain of Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson did not need soldier heroes. This changed in the 1980s when the SAS found themselves enlisted as Thatcher’s Praetorian Guard, their exploits, both past and present, […]
[…] conservatism. Published the Empire Citizen. The BWL was secretly funded by Hannon’s BCU, the money laundered through another of Hannon’s creations, Comrades of the Great War. Havelock Wilson, founder of the Seaman’s Union, one of the union leaders bought by Hannon, was Vice President of the BWL. (1) Some of these operations were detected […]
[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]
