[…] Finally the C4 Director of Programmes Liz Forgan and I agreed a deal: if a former British prime minister would come on the programme, Adams could appear. Wilson had Alzheimers; Callaghan never liked us; and Edward Heath, who later appeared twice on After Dark,(15) couldn’t make it. So that was the end of it. […]
[…] telling us that the taxi driver’s version of the shooting in Dallas was not a million miles from that described in the first volume of the Shea/ Wilson fantasy The Illuminatus Trilogy, with teams of would-be assassins bumping into each other in the bushes behind the grassy knoll. If true, ‘Milan’s’ book is a […]
[…] – but unsourced. White asked Oldfield about ‘allegations that he was a homosexual and had accepted his denial’. During the Rhodesian UDI crisis, we are told, Harold Wilson asked White to prepare a plan ‘for the overthrow of Smith’, but the officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he […]
[…] that they don’t want to, or are unable to, deal with the reality of that system. In their view of this country’s recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of ‘moralising misrepresentations’; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more […]
[…] a hypothesis to be worked out later, the succession of high-level assassinations and engineered removals of top politicians (Willy Brandt in 1974, Gough Whitlam in 1975, Harold Wilson in 1976, Aldo Moro and Pope John Paul I in 1978, and Olof Palme in 1986, to name but the most spectacular cases) can probably only […]
[…] are crap. Steve Dorril and I ran into this view on our first trip to the Big Nowhere to talk to the higher media about the Wallace- Wilson material. In late ’86, just before Wallace got out of prison, we were invited to see some people at BBC’s Newsnight. We had been told by […]
[…] case and ignore the rest. It is a cardinal rule of intelligence,” said one aggrieved officer. “Yet that is what the PM is doing.” Not since Harold Wilson has a Prime Minister been so unpopular with his top spies. The mounting tension is mirrored in Washington. “We’ve gone from a zero position, where presidents […]
[…] radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] appears to give some credibility to claims made by Mr Wilson, following his resignation, that MI5 contained a group of right-wing officers who were incapable of distinguishing between socialism and communism, and were plotting against the government.’ […]
[PDF file]: […] and trust and which could be relied upon 16 There is a section on MRA in Gerth (2023). New Statesman, 12 January 1952. See also H. H. Wilson, ‘Techniques of Pressure – AntiNationalisation Propaganda’ in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1951. Edwards’ obituary in The Independent, 25 June 1990 noted that he had been a […]
[PDF file]: […] communist control were made at the time, I have seen no evidence to support this view. The second occasion was during the 1966 seamen’s strike when Harold Wilson made his notorious comments in the House of Commons about the role of the CPGB in the strike, and actually named CPGB members said to be […]
