[…] 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 […]
[…] CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) 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 .
[…] Lattimore of the Institute of Pacific Relations was not.. The scale of this project is absolutely mind-boggling and these bulletins are free on request from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA. E-mail – Unclassified is the journal of the Association of National Security Alumni, […]
[…] (E. P. Dutton, New York, 1978). On the day of the first ballot for the Labour leadership in 1963, appealing to the left-wing of the party, Harold Wilson called for an enquiry into the Congo story, including Tshombe’s relationship with Sir Roy Walensky and the role of the O’Brien organisation: “We know perfectly well […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] espionage services of a super-power! For all the welcome candour of some of his interviewees, there are still corns that Urban won’t tread on. The whole ‘ Wilson plots’ revelations of 1986-89, thousands of column inches, the major cause of our present increased understanding of the British spooks, is evaded with a brief reference […]
[…] 1946 FO 1949 IRD 1956 RESIGNED FROM FO, FELLOW OF LSE 1959-60 FELLOW UNIVERSITY BUFFALO 1962 LITERARY ED OF SPECTATOR 1964-65 FELLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1976-77 FELLOW WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTRE 1977 FELLOW HOOVER INSTITUTION EDITORIAL BOARD SOVIET ANALYST COLD WARRIOR BOOKS PUBLISHED BY IRD FRONTS COOK, DON 1980 GCHQ CHIEF HONG KONG CORDEAUX, LT […]
[PDF file]: […] and trust and which could be relied upon 16 There is a section on MRA in Gerth (2023). New Statesman, 12 January 1952. See also H. H. Wilson, ‘Techniques of Pressure – AntiNationalisation Propaganda’ in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1951. Edwards’ obituary in The Independent, 25 June 1990 noted that he had been a […]
[PDF file]: […] communist control were made at the time, I have seen no evidence to support this view. The second occasion was during the 1966 seamen’s strike when Harold Wilson made his notorious comments in the House of Commons about the role of the CPGB in the strike, and actually named CPGB members said to be […]
[PDF file]: […] has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype of the later Thatcher Tory Party, then made his […]
