The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin […]
The killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in public view and for no apparent reason remains one of the most notorious murders of recent decades. For sixteen years there have been few signs of any serious attempts to locate and bring to justice the perpetrator of this outrage. Finally, this April, in an outstanding piece […]
[…] May-5 June 2001, ‘Spooks in the House’, on intelligence and security personnel who become MPs. Some of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le […]
[…] a PC crack within Public Information Research came in October 1990, when Chip Berlet resigned from our Board of Directors because he objected to the fact that Fletcher Prouty was also on the Board. We did not discuss the issue because I was putting in overtime on my technician job and wasn’t in the […]
[…] and the Cold War, 1946-47, in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol.20 (1985) pp.453-468. ibid p. 465 Christopher Mayhew, Time to Explain, (Hutchinson, London 1987) p. 107. Richard Fletcher, ‘British Propaganda Since WW2’, in Media, Culture and Society vol 4 p 98. Notes on meeting between Christopher Warner and Edward Barrett, in London, Saturday May […]
[…] devoted only one page, and announced he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. MI5 still in the building by any chance, Mr Birt? Who killed WPC Evonne Fletcher? The Libyans, did, didn’t they? Innocent police person on duty at an anti-Ghaddafi demonstration outside the Libyan ‘Peoples’ Bureau’ in London; some dingbat inside the Bureau […]
The Last Flight of 007 L. Fletcher Prouty, (Gallery May 1985) The flight of KAL 007: Evidence of Conspiracy R.B.Cutler, (Cutler Publications, US 1985) “At one stage it seemed probable that the Freeze movement would halt the (MX) project altogether; only the providential shooting-down of the Korean airliner, KAL007, enabled Reagan to push his […]
Paul Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been […]
All four of Tony Blair’s new political appointees at the Ministry of Defence are part of Labour’s Atlanticist network. Three of them, George Robertson, Lord John Gilbert and John Speller, are members of two interrelated bodies, the Atlantic Council and its labour movement wing, the Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). The […]
[…] CAREW, Anthony Labour Under the Marshall Plan, Manchester University Press, 1977 FERRIS, Paul The New Militants; Crisis in the Trade Union, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1972 HIRSCH Fred and FLETCHER, Richard The CIA and the Labour Movement, Spokesman, Nottingham, 1977 LOFTUS, John The Belarus Secret, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1983 MACSHANE, Denis International Labour and the Origins of […]
