Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] 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 […]

Dean Andrews’ testimony to the Warren Commission

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] 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 […]

Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] 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 .

Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 1974–1976 in manoeuvres that aimed to replace the Wilson government with a non-party coalition. These were interesting times: the miners’ strikes of 1972 and 1974, triggered by years of disputes about pay and colliery closures, […]

Within The Secret State: a disturbing study of the use and misuse of power

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] 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 […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] – 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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[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 […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[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 […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype of the later Thatcher Tory Party, then made his […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The Wilson ‘mystery’ again The first section of this about The Times appeared in a slightly different form under my name in Fortean Times. On 22 August The Times published the latest episode in the long-running saga of ‘Why did Harold Wilson resign as […]

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