[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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?’, […]
[…] absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. Copies are free on request from The Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington DC 20560. They are also on the project’s Website: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/cwihp Flatland Flatland 14 contains 63 pages of […]
[…] today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading U.S. expert on South Asia said here.’ ‘”I warned them that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made […]
[…] that the British state was engaged in continuous guerrilla warfare in its colonies after the war. On the revelations in the late 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed […]
[…] wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, who helped to persuade Wilson not to accede to Lyndon Johnson’s request to send a battalion of bagpipers (sic) to Vietnam. (Johnson wanted a token presence in Vietnam…)’ Anthony Cavendish, former […]
[…] of all people and who regard the idea of hereditary privilege elites as both divisive and morally repugnant.’ 16 A4 pages, it is published by Dr. Edgar Wilson at 29 Heath End Road, Alsager, Stoke on Trent ST7 2SQ at 1.50 per issue. (No information on overseas prices or subscriptions.) I found it rather […]
[…] 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. […]
