[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, […]
[…] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 33 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]
[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]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]
[PDF file]: […] died at the hands of American military power while the left has been speaking truth to it. The central fact remains: the party of Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Barbara Castle and Jack Jones, largely funded by the trade unions, chose as leader someone who, as well as being Mrs Thatcher in all but name, […]
[PDF file]: […] 30 Nechiporenko (see note 27) p. 247. 31 Angleton’s reputation has come under relentless attack, most recently at a 29 March 2012 conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Georgetown University Center for Security Studies entitled Moles, Defectors and Deceptions: James Angleton and His Influence on US Counterintelligence. At the conference, which […]
[PDF file]: […] US foreign policy and the baleful influence it has exerted in the past century. Such an account would start with the pursuit of economic liberalism by Woodrow Wilson; his decision (while campaigning amongst various ethnic blocs resident in the US during the mid-term elections in 1918) to support the dismantling of Austria-Hungary, Imperial Germany […]
[PDF file]: […] on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. He also confirms that Harold Wilson was destabilised and made paranoid by rogue elements in the security forces who thought him a communist agent. But we all knew that.
[PDF file]: […] and the public relations industry learned to exploit. The journalist George Creel called his memoir of the Committee on Public Information he chaired – formed by Woodrow Wilson to sell US entry into World War I – How We Advertised America. The campaign was successful in gaining mass support for a policy designed to […]
[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]
