[…] by a personal dispute with the service over his pension rights. Not long before his death, he admitted on national television that he had made up the Wilson Plot. By then, though, it was too late because the authorities had naïvely tried to ban the book rather than hold an independent inquiry, which would […]
[PDF file]: Disclosure Unravelling the Spycops Files Kate Wilson London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2025, £20, h/b Robin Ramsay Asa Winstanley (associate editor of The Electronic Intifada)1 made the point that the spycops story is Britain’s version of the America’s Cointelpro.2 It should have been one of the biggest political scandals in our domestic politics since the […]
[…] of.’ This could cause problems. Stiff tells how the firm’s activities in North Yemen were compromised. ‘In 1969 two members of the firm, Knocker Parsons and Falcon Wilson, were killed in that area of operation while leading a band of guerillas and their bodies captured. There was an enormous fuss made at the United […]
[…] effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, p.184) When […]
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[…] German anti-Nazi figures what they would gain by going along with the American proposal. After all, the intrusion of the US into Europe in 1919 under Woodrow Wilson had been seen by many as the cause of the difficulties that led to such chronic instability on the continent.() Once the Soviet Union had a […]
[…] Mary Simmons. Your Every Wish The ever-fortunate residents of the Beaconview Old Peoples’ Home in Kiln Lane, Skem, are currently benefitting from the attentions of John Andrew Wilson (3.2.64) (burglary, theft) of 223 Fairview L12, who is taking part in Hindley Borstal’s Community Scheme. Wilson’s spell of duty at the home terminates on 15.10.82 […]
[…] March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire under the headline: ‘I should have been a Trappist monk.’ Ah, […]
[…] illustration of the international dimension of parapolitical manipulation represented by the Circle’s promotional activities. It is becoming more and more apparent that the treatment reserved for Harold Wilson at the hands of the intelligence services was only the UK end of an international phenomenon. Around 1973-75 a surprising number of governments were targeted by […]
[…] historical account of British nuclear forces. Milan Rai, Tactical Trident, the Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, Drava Papers, London, 1994. Rai references the quotations fully. Andrew Wilson, ‘Deadline Midnight’, The Observer, 11 April 1992 Quoted in a paper by William M Arkin and Andrew Burrows, British Nuclear Weapons in the Falklands, published by […]
