[…] Record Office. Hennessy was apparently astonished to see documentation of the conflict between the then Governor of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Cromer wanted – guess what? – cuts in public expenditure and higher interest rates. Gordon Brown would have said, ‘It’s already in our program, Lord Cromer,’ […]
[…] the media with Lobster 11. (April 1986) Embargoed until 3pm, April 30th Something very strange happened in British politics almost a decade ago. A Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, and the journalist with the closest links to the British intelligence services, Chapman Pincher, both said that elements of MI5 had been trying to bring down […]
[…] if the Times gets these losses back from some secret department of HMG. (And if it doesn’t, it is time they got better libel lawyers….) Maggie v Wilson One of the outstanding unresolved issues in the so-called ‘Wilson plots’ of the mid-1970s is the question of Margaret Thatcher’s role after she became Leader of […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the […]
[…] has been telling anyone who would listen that she was a student member of a subversive pro-Soviet group in Oxford University, lead by the young don Harold Wilson. The fact that during the period she describes Wilson wasn’t at Oxford, matters not a jot. (Little’s fantasies are referred to by Chapman Pincher, see Inside […]
[…] 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were ……….well, anything from ideologically unreliable to Soviet agents. In the Callaghan extract the […]
[…] Joe Joe Haines’ 2003 Glimmers of Twilight (London: Politicos, 2003) got a fair bit of attention when it appeared, most of the comments noting either former Harold Wilson press officer Haines’ allegation that Marcia Falkender claimed to have had an affair with Wilson in the 1950s, or the claim (supported by Bernard Donoughue in […]
[PDF file]: Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher Covert operations in British politics 1974-1978 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril Introduction: Kevin McNamara MP Any person who lived through the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next […]
[…] increased arms expenditure – overseas expenditure paid for by domestic cuts – proposed by Labour Chancellor Gaitskell which led to the resignation of Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson from the government in 1951. The Tories return The arrival of the Conservative Government in 1951 saw the return of interest rates – that is, putting […]
[…] the future.’ Mountbatten later recollected that ‘…King was a man filled with folie de grandeur…I said, “This is rank treason. Out.” ‘ King continued to rail against Wilson through the columns of the Daily Mirror but without support from other public figures he became a figure of fun.(2) Although his own ‘coup’ failed, King […]
