[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] and Alec Cairncross, Goodbye Great Britain: the 1976 IMF Crisis (Yale University Press, 1992) p. 70. 4 Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 5 2 and also by the IMF official in charge of the IMF team in London – […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] British Embassy in Dublin. He became an Assistant Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office in 1975 to replace Michael Cudlipp, who had been appointed by Harold Wilson the previous year as information adviser to Merlyn Rees, the Northern Ireland Secretary 4 See Document 1 in the separate Wallace Appendices file 5 5 report. […]
[PDF file]: […] Even after he had given up his Oman command, Smiley kept in touch with the Sultan, for example, writing to him in January 1969, complaining about the Wilson Labour government. He looked forward to ‘getting rid of Wilson and his gang who have done so much harm to our country by forcing on us […]
[PDF file]: […] the security services had systematically destroyed some of their records which would not be retained to be examined by future historians in the long distance future. The Wilson committee in 1981 came across two egregious examples of this namely in relation to SOE and PWE records which in one case had been accidentally and […]
[PDF file]: Ten Years Hard Labour Chris Williamson Lola Books, 2022, £19.00 ISBN 978-3-944203-48-5 John Booth This is a revealing and powerful book by a Labour MP who vocally supported the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and paid the price by losing his career. It’s an angry book because he says that this loyalty was not reciprocated when […]
