[…] an index to those notes. It was that which gave Steve Dorril and I the idea of indexing the notes as well as the text of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. UFOs over Watergate? At the beginning of April, John Simkin31 e-mailed dozens of JFK/Watergate writers the draft of an essay he was […]
[PDF file]: […] an index to those notes. It was that which gave Steve Dorril and I the idea of indexing the notes as well as the text of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. UFOs over Watergate? At the beginning of April, John Simkin31 e-mailed dozens of JFK/Watergate writers the draft of an essay he was […]
[PDF file]: […] Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, $26.99 (h/b) Running Against The Devil: A Plot to Save America From Trump – and the Democrats from Themselves Rick Wilson New York: Crown Forum, 2018, $f28.00 (p/b) John Newsinger When Donald Trump first made clear that he was running for the Republican Presidential nomination, the response […]
[PDF file]: […] been occupied by Terry Melcher. A successful record producer, Melcher had auditioned Manson in May 1969 for a record deal, having been introduced to him by Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys. One day in the summer of 1968 Wilson invited Manson followers Ela Jo Bailey and Patricia Krenwinkle back to his mansion. When […]
[PDF file]: […] figure behind Radio Caroline. His other activities were also touched on in the article but the full extent of these, and how heavily he campaigned against the Wilson government in 1970, only became apparent after the deadline for the publication of the original article had passed. In 1968-1969 O’Rahilly was riding high on the […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever Rick Wilson New York: Simon and Schuster/Free Press, 2018 Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic David Frum New York: HarperCollins, 2018 The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I […]
[…] fictional version of it? Nonetheless Edward Wilson’s A Very British Ending (London: Arcadia, 2015) – brought to my attention by John Newsinger – is worth a look. Wilson has written a kind of parapolitical novel about post-war British history, turning parts of the book I co-wrote, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, into a […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that ‘up to 30’ MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the attempts to […]
[PDF file]: […] 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote that the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)’s ‘Reuben Falber……had recently been made cashier […]
[PDF file]: […] again we get the Private Eye-cynical hack view of Harold Wilson’s attempts to get an investigation of the security Page 143 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 services going: Wilson was paranoid and (using Bernard Donoughue’s diaries as evidence), Marcia Williams was dreadful. ‘The daily drama in Wilson’s kitchen cabinet was a Strindberg play with scenes […]
