[…] left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust Young because he was secretive and he didn’t know what Young’s objectives were. L. Fletcher Prouty died on 5 June 2001. Most of the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald […]
[PDF file]: […] Anthony Carew and Ken Fleet for their comments on the text Brian Crozier for being so (relatively) candid in his memoir and providing so many clues Richard Fletcher for his pioneering research in the 1970s, without which none of this would have been possible. • Part 1 Clearing the ground: the unions, socialism and […]
[…] be in danger.) If Holt’s account is true it could explain the apparent presence in Dallas that day of the Major General Edward Lansdale. It was Colonel Fletcher Prouty who identified Lansdale as being in one of the ‘tramps’ photographs taken after the shooting.3 0 This identification was confirmed by another retired solider, General […]
[PDF file]: […] be in danger.) If Holt’s account is true it could explain the apparent presence in Dallas that day of the Major General Edward Lansdale. It was Colonel Fletcher Prouty who identified Lansdale as being in one of the ‘tramps’ photographs taken after the shooting.32 This identification was confirmed by another retired solider, 29 Her […]
[PDF file]: […] in this country were obsessed with the Militant Tendency within Labour. What I called the American tendency got ignored. People within the Labour movement – notably Richard Fletcher – began tracing the work of this American tendency in the late 1960s. By the time NuLab began to form in the mid 1990s, those of […]
[PDF file]: […] suggests that others, including Mark Hosenball, had been sounded out for the job. 4 4. David Leigh, Guardian 27 January 1978 5. Major pieces on IRD are: Fletcher (1982) and in Observer 29 January 1978, Guardian 18 December 1981, Tribune 2 September and 9 September 1983. See also Duncan Campbell, New Statesman 27 February […]
[PDF file]: The EU: A Corporatist Racket How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism David Barnby Available from Amazon.co.uk for £8.99 The author of this self-published book is a member of the Conservative Party in Witney in Oxfordshire (MP David Cameron) and, more importantly, a member of that party’s anti-EU wing. This […]
[PDF file]: […] of The Sunday Times was the Cold War influence of the United States on the Labour Party, the European Movement and British trade unions. In 1972 Richard Fletcher was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to investigate US intelligence activities at the time of Hugh Gaitskell, and when many questioned the funding source, among […]
[…] no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary for Channel 4 which seemed to show that […]
[…] tell us that Eisenhower approved the U2 mission. Did he? He certainly took responsibility for it once it had been revealed by the Soviets; but according to Fletcher Prouty, who was then one of the men in charge of the U2 flights, Eisenhower expressly ordered the overflights to be halted in the run-up to […]
