[…] indication that there are continuities with anti-Left operations dating back to Heseltine and Crozier’s days. CER’s office is 29 Tufton Street, Westminster, which they share with the Tory Reform Group which contains Heseltine, Kenneth Clarke, Lord Hurd, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and a host of other top Conservatives. The office is also used bythe Action […]
[…] is meant to muddy the waters and confuse the investigations of two quite separate but still unsolved events. Finally, Murray offers us a jumbled but fascinating s tory about Searchlight editor Gerry Gable. We are told that in 1986 there was evidence of an attempt to abduct and kill Gable, who then spoke to […]
[…] and intelligence. Within hours it became quite clear (a) that Wallace was probably telling the truth and (b) this was a really big and really complex s tory. For the first few months of the relationship Colin was still in jail, doing the final year of six he served for a manslaughter he didn’t […]
[…] into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC embargo on the subject was lifted a couple of months ago. Like all the other journalists interested in this s tory, Ware went to see Colin Wallace, eventually spending four days going through Wallace’s biography, his allegations, and photocopying some of his documents. Then three things happened. […]
[…] helped organise a party at the British embassy in Washington to honour the BAP – the Project newsletter reporting the event called the New Labour election vic tory the ‘Big Swing to the BAP’ – Wolfowitz was one of the guest speakers. Naughtie’s opposite number on the US advisory board is now deputy to […]
[…] adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside S tory, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative ‘unseen’ activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from […]
Larry O’Hara See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 2: British Fascism 1974-92 (II) (Lobster 24) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) A left turn for the NF? Having described some of the multiple policy initiatives undertaken by the National Front in part 3 … Read more
[…] The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight. ‘Opium, tungsten, and the Search for National Security, 1940-52’, by Jonathan Marshall, in Journal of Policy His tory, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1991. (Published at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.) Marshall is the former producer of the wonderful Parapolitics USA, and, […]
[…] which he refers, not organised labour. An eminently fair-minded man he may be, but has he produced an interesting book? Yes he has, both in the s tory that he is aware that he is telling and, perhaps more importantly, for the extraordinary sidelights that, consciously or not, he sheds on official and semi-official […]
[PDF file]: […] the anguished days from November 1973 until Wilson’s resignation will recall the high level of anticipation, expectation, surprise and wonder about what would be the next s tory to be leaked, scandal to be revealed, personality to be defamed, that was going to be another blow to the Labour Government. Stephen Dorril and Robin […]
