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See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union … Read more

[…] which gives the evidence for all this in considerable detail. There is now a copy of it in the House of Commons Library in London, although the Security Services had arranged its concealment for some months. Other copies disappeared from my mother’s home in Scotland during the spring. At present, the Home Office and […]

[…] which left little time for the authorities to adequately investigate the allegations – an excuse as feeble as that other establishment cop-out, “in the interests of National Security”. George Terry actually had little to do with the investigation which was carried out by two of his former subordinates: Chief Supt. Gordon Harrison and Chief […]

[…] Courcy, and perhaps indirectly, on the Hess affair. The file in question, an MI5 document, PROKV4/58, shows that de Courcy first came to the attention of the Security Service in 1934 (without explaining why) and was under intermittent observation up to the outbreak of war with Germany. Thereafter he was ‘kept under close observation’, […]

[…] be what to do about our spooks? A sort of answer is being given in Greece where the (nominally) socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-Nato noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting […]

[…] foreign affairs’ () and driven by anti-communism and a passionate Zionism. Hounam suggests there was a very tight loop of Johnson confidants – notably Walt Rostow (National Security Advisor), neo-con godfather, Democratic Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Arthur Goldberg (UN Ambassador), the mysterious movie moguls Mathilde and Arthur Krim and Israeli Deputy ambassador, Eppie Evron […]

[…] from government departments was a mere seven, (3) though others were moved sideways. Cyril Cooper, General Secretary of the Society of Technical Civil Servants, was deemed a security risk because he had been a member of the Communist party ‘many years ago’. (4) The flames had been partly fanned by Chapman Pincher during his […]

[…] by American banking interests, which I quoted. One of the positions you didn’t mention there, usually given by the establishment, is that they were thinking about global security and so on. Of course there is an element of that, but I think they had a really specific interest, not in Vietnam as a country, […]

[…] with the perspective….. that, ultimately, their road to power will be a violent one’. (20) Not only has Brady’s passing reference in the document to the advantageous security aspects of decentralisation to be seen in the context of struggles with the ‘political soldier’ NF group — i.e. answering their arguments — later contributions by […]

[…] section p. 13, September 6, 1994) to write a review of this book. The bit that caught my eye was this: ‘I have little doubt that the security services played a key role in the split in the WRP in 1985 that was to tear the organisation apart. The evidence in the book about […]