Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Government supplied more small arms to its Moslem Northern stooges than the British Army fired in the whole of World War Two. Search the memoirs of Lord Wilson, Lord Healey (directly responsible) and Lord Callaghan (deeply involved in planning the covert operations in Nigeria) and you will find black holocaust denial. Nor, sadly, will […]

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Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 1974–1976 in manoeuvres that aimed to replace the Wilson government with a non-party coalition. These were interesting times: the miners’ strikes of 1972 and 1974, triggered by years of disputes about pay and colliery closures, […]

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The CIA and radiation experiments on humans

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] and Development Board, which included several panels and committees. For example, the Committee on Medical Sciences helped to formulate the policy which eventually led Secretary of Defense Wilson to issue the memorandum implementing the Nuremberg Code in 1953. The Code provided sufficient medical and ethical guidelines to safeguard the interest of volunteers in human […]

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Blood revenge: the aftermath of the assassination of Airey Neave

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] squad responsible for the personal security of the President and for carrying out hostage rescues. They had been given the secret dossier in December 1982 by John Wilson, the operational head of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch. Although initially seen as a spectacular success, doubts soon arose about the real importance of the three ‘terrorists’ […]

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Dean Andrews’ testimony to the Warren Commission

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] telling us that the taxi driver’s version of the shooting in Dallas was not a million miles from that described in the first volume of the Shea/ Wilson fantasy The Illuminatus Trilogy, with teams of would-be assassins bumping into each other in the bushes behind the grassy knoll. If true, ‘Milan’s’ book is a […]

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The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] – but unsourced. White asked Oldfield about ‘allegations that he was a homosexual and had accepted his denial’. During the Rhodesian UDI crisis, we are told, Harold Wilson asked White to prepare a plan ‘for the overthrow of Smith’, but the officer to whom White gave the job sympathised with Rhodesia and reported ‘he […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] case and ignore the rest. It is a cardinal rule of intelligence,” said one aggrieved officer. “Yet that is what the PM is doing.” Not since Harold Wilson has a Prime Minister been so unpopular with his top spies. The mounting tension is mirrored in Washington. “We’ve gone from a zero position, where presidents […]

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The Open Side of Secrecy: Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] that they don’t want to, or are unable to, deal with the reality of that system. In their view of this country’s recent history there were no Wilson plots; Northern Ireland is ignored; Cathy Massiter was guilty of ‘moralising misrepresentations’; disinformation, I-ops and bureaucratic rivalries are ignored. Intelligence and security organisations are no more […]

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Transnational Classes and International Relations

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] a hypothesis to be worked out later, the succession of high-level assassinations and engineered removals of top politicians (Willy Brandt in 1974, Gough Whitlam in 1975, Harold Wilson in 1976, Aldo Moro and Pope John Paul I in 1978, and Olof Palme in 1986, to name but the most spectacular cases) can probably only […]

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Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] are crap. Steve Dorril and I ran into this view on our first trip to the Big Nowhere to talk to the higher media about the Wallace- Wilson material. In late ’86, just before Wallace got out of prison, we were invited to see some people at BBC’s Newsnight. We had been told by […]

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