[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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’ […]
[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]: Contents Lobster 58 The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The Wilson ‘mystery’ again The first section of this about The Times appeared in a slightly different form under my name in Fortean Times. On 22 August The Times published the latest episode in the long-running saga of ‘Why did Harold Wilson resign as […]
[PDF file]: […] exerted by wealthy freelance individuals (or companies) operating at arms-length from government. The circumstances around the establishment of Radio Caroline fit with this theory.1 5 Fighting Mr Wilson Despite the curious memo prepared for the Director-General of the BBC, the Conservative government lead by Prime Minister Douglas-Home government took no action against Radio Caroline. […]
[PDF file]: […] no major arguments being made or proposals published by anyone in the Labour Party. The absence of real debate or consideration of possible alternatives is striking. 1 Wilson joined the SDP while at university in 1987. He followed a minority of its members into the Conservative Party (Danny Finkelstein being one), was elected a […]
[PDF file]: […] two areas: what it said about MI5’s relationship with the British left since WW2, and particularly the role of the CPGB in British politics; and the so-called Wilson plots. Let’s take the left first. Elsewhere in this issue is my contribution to the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s book on the 1984 miners’ […]
[PDF file]: […] competitors and a long series of diagnoses of British economic failure were published in the late fifties and sixties, contributing to the climate which helped elect the Wilson government in 1964.1 3 A feature of this 10 Ibid. p. 130 11 Samuel Brittan, Steering the Economy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). p. 130 12 MacDougall, Don […]
[PDF file]: […] that are 80 years old: if this were the case today they would be equipped exclusively with pre-WW2 biplanes.9 It’s all very different from 1965 when the Wilson government ordered 46 Nimrod aircraft so that the Comet production lines could be kept open, UK jobs protected and technological expertise maintained. Such considerations – though […]
