[PDF file]: […] journals abroad, including Britain’s moderate-left Encounter – the list goes on. The CIA has been widely suspected of further plots, against Australia’s Gough Whitlam and Britain’s Harold Wilson, for example; which couldn’t easily be dismissed as paranoid when all these other things were going on, and look even more plausible today. In the Wilson […]
[PDF file]: The Mandelson legacy John Booth The day after Lord Mandelson was removed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his top diplomatic post in Washington DC I received this message from an old journo pal: ‘Just seen that “Petie” Mandelson has been sacked as US ambassador. A nation mourns. . .’ One from a former Labour […]
[PDF file]: […] the Tory right that Stonehouse was a traitor, working for the Soviet bloc, was added the whisper that he was involved in some dodgy finances and Harold Wilson dropped him from the cabinet when took office in February 1974. Author Hayes is the son of a man who was one of Stonehouse’s lawyers and […]
[PDF file]: […] is it ‘unimaginable’ not to support the US? It used not to be ‘unimaginable’. Edward Heath declined to support the US in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Harold Wilson refused to send troops to fight with the US in Vietnam. There are two major conclusions to be drawn from these events. The first is that […]
[PDF file]: […] Caucus: a minor update Robin Ramsay I researched and wrote The Clandestine Caucus (listed on the website as CC) in the years following the publication of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. It continued that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory […]
[PDF file]: […] might call the paranoid left – which was looking at the American and British secret states in the wake of JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, the Wilson plots and changes in policing and the rise of the ‘strong state’. Yet, looking back at the last 40 years or so, it is quite clear […]
[PDF file]: […] you know but who you See: . Our editor also makes reference to this in his recent book review of Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson or . 16 See the second item of my ‘South of the Border’ in that issue . 17 18 See . 19 See . 5 know.20 […]
[PDF file]: […] Straw, former president of the National Union of Students, who at the time was working as a ‘special adviser’ to Barbara Castle, the Social Security minister. Harold Wilson, the PM, wanted to see Norman Scott’s social security file, probably in an attempt to clarify Scott’s relationship with Thorpe, and asked Castle to obtain it. […]
[PDF file]: […] – see note 4 – p. 236. Ms Lindt’s remark about ‘christening him’ is a reference to the fact that Burgess’s real name was John Anthony Burgess Wilson, and his two middle names became his penname as a novelist. Edwards, archivist at Manchester’s International Anthony Burgess Foundation, confirmed by e-mail: ‘We’ve not yet come […]
[PDF file]: […] H., The Iran-Iraq War (Amazone Press, 2003) Dorril, S., The Silent Conspiracy: Britain’s Security Services in the 1990s (London: Mandarin, 1993) Dorril, S and Ramsay, R., Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London, Harper Collins, 1992) El-Naijar, H. A., The Gulf War: Overreaction and Excessiveness: The Root of Subsequent US Invasions of The Middle […]
