[…] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]
[PDF file]: […] the preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (see below). Back in the noughties I wrote a piece about the travails of the Wilson government on its election in 1964. Why did it not devalue? I called it ‘The two sterling crises of 1964 and the decision not to devalue’ […]
[PDF file]: […] in the form of the Cabinet Office’s rejection of an FOIA request for documents relating to the so-called ‘Iraqi Money Affair’, comprising a file created by Harold Wilson himself in 1976. The affair involved Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian […]
[PDF file]: […] no support for it within the Cabinet; nor, critically in the British system, from the prime minister (nor, had they been asked, from the electorate). Prime Minister Wilson diverted Benn’s energies into a referendum on membership of the EEC and, having seen that off, retired at 60 (as he had always told his friends […]
[PDF file]: […] of State under F D Roosevelt and H S Truman, ardent segregationist and anti-communist. Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) stockbroker, banker, chair of the War Industries Board under Woodrow Wilson and a principal political-economic advisor to Roosevelt and Truman. Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) US journalist and Wilson propagandist, author of Public Opinion, argued that the masses were […]
[PDF file]: […] of a new feature film, Anthropoid.8 Trump If you are curious about Trump, John K Wilson’s Trump unveiled: exposing the bigoted billionaire is the place to start.9 Wilson has apparently read everything about or by Donald Trump and has produced both a critical biography and a collection of the jaw-dropping nonsense the man has […]
[PDF file]: […] a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism, published by Bookmarks. Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1992) p. 268. He apparently still entertained the idea of attempting to psychologically destabilising the Wilson government by flooding […]
[PDF file]: […] political figure of his time. When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell suddenly died in 1963, George Brown was widely expected to be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to […]
[PDF file]: […] to do anything when prime minister Lloyd George took van loads of official (and thus secret) papers home while writing his memoirs. Later PMs, Eden, Churchill and Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s memoirs, the […]
[…] espousing some of the conspiracy theories. Trump If you are curious about Trump, John K Wilson’s Trump unveiled: exposing the bigoted billionaire is the place to start.7 Wilson has apparently read everything about or by Donald Trump and has produced both a critical biography and a 4 David Brock, Blinded by the Right (New […]
