[…] of 0.5 of a percentage point on 21 March. There was a warm international reception, too, with ‘relief and satisfaction’ being expressed by the OECD. (38) The EEC Six called the Budget ‘courageous’, with the European Commission forecasting a British balance of payments surplus by the end of the year.(39) The IMF was said […]
[…] Circle was on the weekend of 1st December 1979 in the Madison Hotel in Washington. Among the participants were the German minister Narjes (now influential in the EEC), ex Minister of Air Julian Amery, from Great Britain, ex CIA Director William Colby, Federal Reserve Bank manager Volkers, President of the Heritage Trust Foundation, Feulner, […]
[…] a year and though the subscription is given as f30 (French francs?) it might be sensible to write and ask for sub. rates if living outside the EEC countries. Editor/producer is Michael Quilligan, Ierland Informatie Centrum, Commelinstraat, 22/sous, 1093 TS, Amsterdam, Holland. Issue No 1 (March 1988) included some information on the new head […]
[…] states of the Americas. In short, the pariah states. Ms. Becker seems oblivious to the basic facts of life, such as Britain’s membership of NATO and the EEC. The real irony is that this is all being done too late. The Republicans are going to lose the American presidential election. George Bush is slowly […]
[…] to me how any foreign secretary could know if the spooks decided to deceive him/her. There are, as always, interesting snippets. ‘When Britain’s application to join the EEC was finally accepted he was allowed to place some of his personnel on the personal staffs of British commissioners, making George Thomson’s private office in Strasbourg […]
[…] OPERATIONS 1970s MET FNLA REPS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. MEMBER PRIVATE SPOOKS GROUP ‘THE PINAY CIRCLE’. CLOSE TO MI5\MI6 ‘ROMANTIC VICTORIAN-STYLE IMPERIAL RIGHT-WING STRATEGIST PRO SOUTH AFRICA EEC ISRAEL ANTI US UN ARAB REVOLUTION CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (BROTHER HANGED) PROGRESSIVE ON LABOUR RELATIONS. WIFE CATHERINE DAUGHTER OF HAROLD MACMILLAN’ DIR SOUTH AFRICAN MINING COMPANIES: VAAL […]
[…] at a time when the Wilson governments were having a difficult time on almost any front you care to mention: Northern Ireland, inflation, unions, rising unemployment, the EEC referendum not to mention the smear campaigns and various psy-ops running against them. As the closest person to Wilson, what she did mattered. If Donoughue […]
[…] material shows no signs of drying-up and the sales remain constant. Still unmentionable Michael Cockrell’s entertaining look back at the 1975 referendum on membership of the then EEC, ‘How We Fell for Europe’ (BBC2, 4 June 2005) got most of it right but flunked the role of the secret state in it. Of IRD’s […]
[…] De Gaulle, unable to conduct any indepedent foreign policy at all. Frankly, this is rubbish on the basis of the Treaty of Rome.’ From this mildly pro- EEC position Gaitskell, in his final conference speech on 3 October 1962, switched to saying membership would ‘mean the end of a thousand years of history’. The […]
[…] in the 1980s!) Nor does he mention Northern Ireland. Starting his historical sketch in 1979 he can omit the biggest post-war domestic lie, Heath’s claim that the EEC was merely a free trade area, and the events of the 1973-77 period (whose effects were still felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed […]
