[…] May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. […]
[…] that Castro had signed a further option with Leyland to buy a thousand buses in a larger 20 million dollar deal. The newly-elected British prime minister, Harold Wilson, refused to give in to American pressure and block the Leyland deal. The US Commerce Secretary, Luther Hodges, declared publicly and ominously: ‘I don’t like it […]
[…] is it ‘unimaginable’ not to support the US? It used not to be ‘unimaginable’. Edward Heath declined to support the US in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Harold Wilson refused to send troops to fight with the US in Vietnam. The US was going to war and fabricated a pretext, as it has done many […]
[…] of all people and who regard the idea of hereditary privilege elites as both divisive and morally repugnant.’ 16 A4 pages, it is published by Dr. Edgar Wilson at 29 Heath End Road, Alsager, Stoke on Trent ST7 2SQ at 1.50 per issue. (No information on overseas prices or subscriptions.) I found it rather […]
[…] later. Participating in both and chairing the second was Lord Chalfont, the former Times defence correspondent Alun Gwynne Jones who was a defence minister in the 1964 Wilson government before becoming a fierce Cold War propagandist. Chalfont, a doughty defender of apartheid South Africa, became chairman of the UK wing of the Committee for […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 5 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(6) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming about ‘the Wilson plots’? Notes A decent recent summary of those events, ‘The Hidden Australia – a secret recent History of the Whitlam Dismissal’, is available at .
[…] army; including Jeremy Rail-ton, then head of Information Policy’. In fact Cudlipp was appointed as Chief Information Officer in Northern Ireland in 1975 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to try and get political control over the propaganda apparatus, which was then being directed as much at Northern Ireland Secretary of State Merlyn Rees as […]
[…] in which he reminds us of Brigadier Kitson’s ideas, the talk of a coup in The Times in 1974, General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance and ‘the Wilson plots’. This isn’t done very well – not enough detail and no indication from Evans that this field has been ploughed already – but for a […]
[…] thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it is worth getting. (How effective a piece of satire, and how good a piece of […]
