[…] that elements within the US state wanted to use the crisis to get rid of the Labour Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 6 For Whittome see Denis Healey, The Time of My Life, (London: Michael Joseph, 1989) p. 431. […]
[PDF file]: […] know that the Texas Congressman’s success in obtaining enormous finance and sophisticated weaponry for the Mujahdineen was strongly promoted by the Israeli lobby in Washington to which Wilson was very close.41 Mujahdineen training by the US, UK and Israel as part of well-funded Operation Cyclone is a matter of record. One assumes that Blunkett, […]
[PDF file]: […] under the control of Russian agents did not have the seismic impact they hoped for. But Bower evidently considers the story as still being of use. Harold Wilson, we are told, had been warned by MI5 that ‘a raft of British trade union leaders were being paid by Moscow to advance communism in Britain’. […]
[PDF file]: […] De Gaulle’s veto of the UK’s bid – ‘by 1970’. On file are notes of Lemass’s talks with Duncan Sandys (mainly about Cyprus and peace-keeping operations), Harold Wilson (highly generalised with Wilson not making specific commitments, or positive suggestions) and Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home (on trade and Europe, with Douglas-Home not saying very […]
[PDF file]: […] EEC. This was held on June 5 1975. 2 position, negotiated some changes to Britain’s terms of membership and recommended the public endorse these in the referendum. Wilson was successful and Britain voted by 2:1 to stay in the EEC. The 1975 referendum did not succeed in putting the question of Britain’s place in […]
[PDF file]: […] chair of York University Conservative Society – hosted a regular 30 minute ‘current affairs’ programme on Radio 270 throughout May-August 1967. In the final weeks before the Wilson government made offshore broadcasting illegal, Radio 270 carried contributions from Ronald Bell MP and John Biggs-Davison MP in favour of the introduction of commercial radio in […]
[PDF file]: […] was an interesting piece in one of the Daily Telegraph blogs, Ed West’s ‘My local Tory party has just died. What the hell is going on?’ Bill Wilson MSP For much of the developing world the basic message is this: challenge America and it bombs and shells you with depleted uranium (DU), irradiating you, […]
[…] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]
[PDF file]: […] Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist […]
[PDF file]: […] in the form of the Cabinet Office’s rejection of an FOIA request for documents relating to the so-called ‘Iraqi Money Affair’, comprising a file created by Harold Wilson himself in 1976. The affair involved Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian […]
