[PDF file]: […] the preface to his A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (see below). Back in the noughties I wrote a piece about the travails of the Wilson government on its election in 1964. Why did it not devalue? I called it ‘The two sterling crises of 1964 and the decision not to devalue’ […]
[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 […]
[…] and Alec Cairncross, Goodbye Great Britain: the 1976 IMF Crisis (Yale University Press, 1992) p. 70. 4 Bernard Donoughue, Prime Minister: The Conduct of Policy under Harold Wilson & James Callaghan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987) p. 94. 5 2 and also by the IMF official in charge of the IMF team in London – […]
See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices
[PDF file]: […] British Embassy in Dublin. He became an Assistant Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office in 1975 to replace Michael Cudlipp, who had been appointed by Harold Wilson the previous year as information adviser to Merlyn Rees, the Northern Ireland Secretary 4 See Document 1 in the separate Wallace Appendices file 5 5 report. […]
[PDF file]: […] of Public Information to be able to render a seemingly spontaneous speech ‘within 5 minutes’ at any venue in order to agitate for US war aims. Woodrow Wilson pronounced that the US was entering WWI for this purpose. Wilson’s attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer led the sweeping police raids against political dissidents between 1919-1920. […]
[…] is the co-author with Anthony Su1nn1ers of Honeytrnp: 11,e Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolso11, 1987). Dorril and Ran1say l1avc rece11tly E published, SMAR!: Wilson & tire Secret State (London: Fot1rtb Estate Lin11ted, 1991). INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS LOBSTER – a journal of parapolitics 87 been reprinted; some are out of priI1t and […]
[PDF file]: […] lieutenant’s woman,’ The Times, 19 November 1981. 12 ‘Social Democratic Alliance statement,’ The Times, 29 September 1975. 13 Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, Lobster 11 (1986), ‘ Wilson, MI5 and the Rise of Thatcher: Covert Operations in British Politics 19741978,’ appendix 6: ‘Examples of political psy ops targets 1973/4 – non Army origin’. 14 […]
[PDF file]: […] foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought to stay, the […]
[PDF file]: […] bugging of Oliver’s phone that have nothing to do with call 76 Hougan, Secret Agenda, p. 115. The trick book included the names of CIA agent Ed Wilson and KCIA agent Tongsun Park, who allegedly arranged ‘trysts for the politically powerful’ at Park’s George Town Club, which the CIA may in turn have monitored […]
[PDF file]: […] Party, their chief focus – were marginalised or ridiculed. Innocents abroad? Belatedly I flipped through a copy of the memoir of the former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, Fair Game (Simon and Schuster, 2007). Plame Wilson had her CIA cover blown by the Bush regime because her diplomat husband hadn’t gone along with the […]
