Errors, corrections, apologies
My apologies to Mr A. Baron. At the top of p. 24 of Lobster 25 I stated that Mr Baron ‘has been circulating odd bits and pieces around the British far right for quite a while now’. It would have been more accurate to write that odd bits and pieces about Mr Baron have been circulating.
An account of some of his complicated dealings with the right and Searchlight are included in his August pamphlet, Why do Rich Men Steal? (Anglo-Hebrew Publishing, Box 2293, BCM Mono London WC1N 3XX, no price stated) Try this section on p. 11.
‘After one of [publisher] Hancock’s underlings had played a dirty trick on me I terminated our business arrangement. Hancock refused to repay me some money he owed me so I sued him in the County Court. Later, after I’d received a number of death threats, and a forged birth certificate had been distributed around the extreme right (purporting to prove my Jewish origins), I decided to teach him a further lesson and contacted Gerry Gable, the editor of the state-sponsored “anti-fascist” magazine’ Searchlight, and suggested he plant a story about Hancock doing business with a Jewish porn merchant in the tabloid press. To this end I sent Gable some photographs of myself posing outside a synagogue.’
And so forth. (No wonder I got muddled….)
In Lobster 25, (p. 11) I stated that some of the material for Julianne McKinney’s mind control report had come from Harlan Girard. Ms McKinney denies this. Harlan Girard says it’s true. I can’t tell which of them is telling the truth (nor think it matters greatly). However, Ms McKinney is right to upbraid me for not checking with her before making the statement and for that I apologise.
Funny, I thought I remembered this
In my little piece on p. 11, Lobster 25, ‘Enemies of the state’, I referred to NUM President Arthur Scargill as ‘smeared all over the media as recipient of a cheap mortgage (in some version a mortgage paid for by Moscow andor Libya) which didn’t exist. (It astonishes me that Terry Pattinson at the Daily Mirror and Roger Cook at Central TV, in particular, have stayed on in their jobs after fronting stories on this not only completely false but so obviously sources back to the secret state.’
Ian Pollard, researcher for the Channel 4 documentary,’The Arthur Legend’, which examined the generation of these smears, wrote to correct me.
The Mirror and Cook claimed that Scargill had corruptly used donations designed for striking miners to pay off his personal mortgage of 25,000. It was further claimed that the cash involved came from Libya and was brought here by Altaf Abbasi, before being taken in to the NUM. This was the claim. It was untrue. We know now, however, that money did come from the Libyans. There was no allegation that he was the recipient of a ‘cheap mortgage”. There was no allegation that the Soviets paid off the mortgage. There was a claim that the USSR sent lots of dosh, which was true….. It later transpired that Arthur Scargill received a mortgage from the International Miners Organisation at the usual (preferential) NUM rates, which he paid back (accepted by all) but that wasn’t part of the smear.’
Pollard further points out that Pattinson was subsequently been dismissed by the Mirror — but not for anything to do with this story.