[…] 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 .
[…] army; including Jeremy Rail-ton, then head of Information Policy’. In fact Cudlipp was appointed as Chief Information Officer in Northern Ireland in 1975 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to try and get political control over the propaganda apparatus, which was then being directed as much at Northern Ireland Secretary of State Merlyn Rees as […]
Part One A to B See also: Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) Georg Simmel said ‘The purpose of secrecy is above all protection. […]
[…] in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no indication from Evans that this field has been ploughed already – but for a […]
[…] and Morrow both appear in The Pencourt File in which our intrepid journalists Penrose and Courtier blunder into Washington ignorant of all around them. In return for some information on the assassination, which Morrow says they can get from the State Department, Morrow supplies them with information on Harold Wilson and the Thorpe affair. SD
[…] set-up! Judging by what we know of the calibre of person recruited to British intelligence in those days, the suspicion of Roger Hollis, as in the Harold Wilson case, surely resulted from a paranoia that covered for ineptitude. Blaming traitors is easier than self-criticism. The Cambridge crew dropped out of communist politics when they […]
[…] factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the preceding paragraph. One is the continuing involvement of regular or “rogue” CIA officers , such as Ray Cline or Edwin Wilson, at every stage.13 Another, not unrelated, is the recurring allegations that the China Lobby, the Unification Church and the APACL have all derived their considerable budgets […]
[…] and Development Board, which included several panels and committees. For example, the Committee on Medical Sciences helped to formulate the policy which eventually led Secretary of Defense Wilson to issue the memorandum implementing the Nuremberg Code in 1953. The Code provided sufficient medical and ethical guidelines to safeguard the interest of volunteers in human […]
[…] squad responsible for the personal security of the President and for carrying out hostage rescues. They had been given the secret dossier in December 1982 by John Wilson, the operational head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch. Although initially seen as a spectacular success, doubts soon arose about the real importance of the three ‘terrorists’ […]
[…] Government supplied more small arms to its Moslem Northern stooges than the British Army fired in the whole of World War Two. Search the memoirs of Lord Wilson, Lord Healey (directly responsible) and Lord Callaghan (deeply involved in planning the covert operations in Nigeria) and you will find black holocaust denial. Nor, sadly, will […]
