[PDF file]: […] Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘ Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by now. Our lives may depend upon it. Secrecy is also, of course, the enemy of the historian. It […]
[PDF file]: […] a meeting with my then MP, Roland Moyle, to discuss attempts by the Intelligence Services in Northern Ireland during 1974 to discredit various political figures, including Harold Wilson. The 1981 destruction of documents may also be significant. That was the year that three staff members, including the Tara leader, William McGrath, of the Kincora […]
[PDF file]: […] the Realm (London: Allen Lane, 2009) writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]
