One of the recurring sub-themes of the literature on intelligence systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public knew about Golitsyn was (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of […]
[…] were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call the tune? Only the misty-eyed romantics would believe for one moment […]
[…] of wide areas of body. You will recall that you were going to carry out some tests on RAF volunteers who were to be provided by Captain Wilson here….it is becoming increasingly urgent to obtain more information regarding the emergency beta tolerance for wide areas of body, both in relation to atomic explosions and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] own machinery to service politically-moderate trade union leaders.'(68) Servic(ing) trade union leaders? IRIS, like Common Cause, is more important than has generally been thought. Labour MP and Wilson Cabinet member, Charles Pannell (later Lord Pannell) described to Irving Richter in the early 1970s his friendship with Cecil Hallett, General Secretary of the AEU (and […]
[…] And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the first Wilson government. There’s this on George Brown while Labour’s Foreign Secretary: ‘….he was also particularly friendly to America. Several times he went along with Washington’s proposals even […]
[…] monitoring station at Little Sai Wan in Hong Kong (UKC 201 in the international Sigint network) provided the Americans with intelligence up to 1975, long after Harold Wilson had – publicly at least – expressed his Government’s opposition to the war. The NSA co-ordinated all signals intelligence in SE Asia, and Little Sai Wan […]
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[…] money’; and, unusually honest for a politician, he notes: ‘So bad was the economic situation inherited by Labour in 1974…………it would have been a miracle if the Wilson and Callaghan administrations that followed had been able to correct it in a short five years.’ (p. 146) He gives a fairly detailed account of the […]
[…] 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 […]
