[…] same time there was another smear campaign against John Strachey, the Minister of War. (These campaigns bear remarkable similarities to the later plots against Ministers in the Wilson governments.) According to de Courcy, on 14th September 1951, two MI5 officers under the orders of Roger Hollis were sent to Paris to interview French officials […]
[…] in the intelligence response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait……’ Let us look at this ‘response’. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph on 16 September 2001, Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, stated: ‘……I worked in British military intelligence before, and during the Gulf War. We failed to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. After the war….. inevitably […]
[…] how their accuracy has been confirmed by the report. (See for more details.) Notes 1 Anon, ‘Labourer Accused of Murrell Killing’,Birmingham Post 4 November 2003, p.3; Jamie Wilson, ‘Two Arrested over 1984 Murder of Peace Activist’, The Guardian 17 February, 2004, p.2; Richard War-burton , ‘Murrell Mystery: Two Held by Police’, Birmingham Post, 17 […]
Tribune 21/28 August 1987 JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC […]
[…] of.’ This could cause problems. Stiff tells how the firm’s activities in North Yemen were compromised. ‘In 1969 two members of the firm, Knocker Parsons and Falcon Wilson, were killed in that area of operation while leading a band of guerillas and their bodies captured. There was an enormous fuss made at the United […]
[…] been involved in the assassination. This is quite odd. Pepper doesn’t state that it was the white Mustang driven by Ray. The real thing or a copy, Wilson and a colleague went to the abandoned car and, says Wilson, as he opened the car door an envelope fell out onto the ground. Wilson, one […]
The Enemy Within Seamus Milne Verso, London, 1994 Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party Francis Beckett John Murray, London,1995 Seamus Milne has written a very good book, an essential book. Investigative journalism in this country is very hard to do, and Milne deserves great praise for this achievement.(1) The core […]
The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]
[…] amplifying the Combat 18 ‘threat’, knowing that it was a state operation. So tell me, pray, why do we have a police squad targetting an MI5 operation? Wilson Plots The sound of marching feet. ‘Captains of industry’ sometimes write books in the ‘How To Save Britain’ sub-genre. (I remember an anthology in the late […]
Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50 The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s […]
