[…] the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers and Tory party workers had taken matters into their own hands. 13 Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay: Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991), p. 272 14 Oona King MP (Lab, Bethnal Green and Bow), ‘Losers win’, the Guardian, 18 November 2000 […]
[…] deal of arm-twisting from LBJ, and despite Wilson’s utter dependence on the US at this point for financial assistance to defend the value of the pound, Harold Wilson refused to send even a token force to Vietnam. (Apologists for Maurice Oldfield hint that he was instrumental in keeping the British state out of Vietnam.) […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Robin Whittaker (in particular), Rom, Jane Affleck, Terry Hanstock, anon in Dubai, Chris Tame, Robert Henderson, Peter Watson and David Turner for information. Thanks to Chris Gordon- Wilson for a donation of £50. This is a belting good issue, in my view, with a wide variety of top-drawer material – but I tend to […]
Are raw prawns pink? Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia’s most famous – and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order […]
Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]
Introduction The mid 1970s was not a good time to be a social democratic ally of the United States. In Britain we had “the Wilson plots’; in Australia Gough Whitlam, Jim Cairns and the Australian Labour Party got Governor Kerr and the CIA; in Germany Willi Brandt resigned after a “security scandal’; in New […]
