[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]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Knock, knock As I read the first few paragraphs of the story about the British Territorial Army1 unit tasked to infiltrate and penetrate the British peace movement in the 1980s, I was amused.2 ‘Infiltration’ and ‘penetration’ means they joined it. Most of the peace movement in particular and […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[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]: […] record, he indicated that he was happy with that and added: ‘When we hear of undercover Police having long-term relationships with animal rights activists (and even Harold Wilson being bugged by MI5 lest he was a Soviet mole) it is quite clear that the State reserves the right to monitor pressure groups or political […]
[PDF file]: […] and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us […]
[PDF file]: […] be a candid friend, as Sydney Blumenthal was for Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State; as the late Maurice Oldfield was for Prime Minister Harold Wilson, warning him of the danger and futility of joining America in Vietnam;4 and as the MOD’s Defence Intelligence Staff was prior to the invasion of Iraq, […]
