[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]: […] 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]: […] lieutenant’s woman,’ The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘ Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 […]
[…] is the co-author with Anthony Su1nn1ers of Honeytrnp: 11,e Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso11, 1987). Dorril and Ran1say l1avc rece11tly E published, SMAR!: Wilson & tire Secret State (London: Fot1rtb Estate Lin11ted, 1991). INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS LOBSTER – a journal of parapolitics 87 been reprinted; some are out of priI1t and […]
[PDF file]: […] foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought to stay, the […]
[PDF file]: […] Party, their chief focus – were marginalised or ridiculed. Innocents abroad? Belatedly I flipped through a copy of the memoir of the former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game (Simon and Schuster, 2007). Plame Wilson had her CIA cover blown by the Bush regime because her diplomat husband hadn’t gone along with the […]
[PDF file]: […] bugging of Oliver’s phone that have nothing to do with call 76 Hougan, Secret Agenda, p. 115. The trick book included the names of CIA agent Ed Wilson and KCIA agent Tongsun Park, who allegedly arranged ‘trysts for the politically powerful’ at Park’s George Town Club, which the CIA may in turn have monitored […]
[…] didn’t know that the Iraqis had scrapped their WMDs.’ Innocents abroad? Belatedly I flipped through a copy of the memoir of the former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game (Simon and Schuster, 2007). Plame Wilson had her CIA cover blown by the Bush regime because her diplomat husband hadn’t gone along with the […]
[PDF file]: […] more that when Peter Wright’s book Spycatcher was published, I was so focused on the sections which supported Colin Wallace’s story of secret state machinations against the Wilson government, I barely noticed Wright’s Soviet-spies-in-MI5 story which has been so thoroughly analysed, retold and updated by Tate. And what a story it is. To recap […]
