[…] the radical right-wing think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, became an MEP in 1994 and ran the Referendum Party 1996/1997. He received a knighthood from Harold Wilson in 1976 for ‘services to ecology’. This is thought to have been a Wilsonian joke. The real reason for the honour is thought to be Goldsmith’s […]
[…] and Liberal politicians to assess the interest in a coalition dominated by The Focus. (12) Focus friends in the media In the media The Focus eventually recruited Wilson Harris (The Spectator), Kingsley Martin (New Statesman), Lady Rhonda (Time and Tide) and Harcourt Johnstone (The Economist). Using a publishing company it had set up, Union […]
[…] UK equivalent would be the underground press of the late sixties and early seventies. Thomas’s heroes are the likes of Timothy Leary, Wilhem Reich and Robert Anton- Wilson, and you might find a copy of Oz or IT which had pieces about two of those three. (Anton-Wilson appeared a little later.) This is probably […]
[…] May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. […]
[…] thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it is worth getting. (How effective a piece of satire, and how good a piece of […]
De Courcy, Pilcher and Hess Recently released material in the Public Record Office throws more light on the career of Kenneth de Courcy, and perhaps indirectly, on the Hess affair. The file in question, an MI5 document, PROKV4/58, shows that de Courcy first came to the attention of the Security Service in 1934 (without explaining […]
[…] reports suggested these pamphlets had been distributed by the million. I met him in 1987. He was a very charming toff. I asked him about the ‘ Wilson plots’. He told me nothing of consequence; and he may have known nothing of consequence. I couldn’t tell. Mind control At is a large 1986 ‘Bibliography […]
[…] that Castro had signed a further option with Leyland to buy a thousand buses in a larger 20 million dollar deal. The newly-elected British prime minister, Harold Wilson, refused to give in to American pressure and block the Leyland deal. The US Commerce Secretary, Luther Hodges, declared publicly and ominously: ‘I don’t like it […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
[…] Resources, which is chaired by former Deputy Secretary of Energy, William H. White; others with interests are former Secretary of State James Baker III; former Congressman Charles Wilson, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage and Major General Richard Secord, who was described as the ‘chief covert operative’ for Colonel Oliver North in the […]
