[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 […]
[…] I am reformatting parts of the early editions of Lobster and have reset issue 12, from 1986. Having produced Lobster 11, centrally about the plots against the Wilson government, Steve Dorril and I assumed that the major media would use our research and pursue the Wilson plots theme. So I went back to the […]
[…] I am reformatting parts of the early editions of Lobster and have reset issue 12, from 1986. Having produced Lobster 11, centrally about the plots against the Wilson government, Steve Dorril and I assumed that the major media would use our research and pursue the Wilson plots theme. So I went back to the […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] (Eric Lubbock) – Head of Peter Hain Defence Fund; Peter Hain, Emlyn Hooson MP, David Steel MP, Jeremy Thorpe MP Cyril Smith MP – all Liberals. Harold Wilson MP, Edward Short MP, Joan Lestor MP, David Owen MP, Judith Hart MP, Merlyn Rees MP, Roy Hattersley MP – all Labour Marcia Williams – Harold […]
[…] 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]: […] access – but when I had access to it and initially skimmed across its sections, she was using it to attack/critique the treatment of her and Harold Wilson, in the books of Joe Haines (Glimmers of Twilight) and Bernard Donoughue (Downing Street Diary). The fascist plot to take the White House in 1933 I […]
[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 […]
