[PDF file]: […] Director of Public Prosecutions. 1 See (Daily Mail) and 2 This period is described in great detail in Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1990). 3 1 The View from the Bridge It’s still Uncle Sam’s Labour Party It must have been a slow news day […]
[…] 1977. Chapman Pincher makes no reference to this story in his anthology the following year, Inside Story (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1978). 41 14 ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.42 Which raises the interesting question of what MI5 told Mrs Thatcher. […]
[…] about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was State Research, no. 2 November 1977. Chapman Pincher makes no reference to this story in his anthology the following year, Inside […]
[…] about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.12 Which raises the interesting question of what MI5 told Mrs Thatcher. […]
[…] about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.2 Which raises the interesting question of what MI5 told Mrs Thatcher. […]
[…] about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.2 Which raises the interesting question of what MI5 told Mrs Thatcher. […]
[…] about the communist threat to Britain. In a recent essay Richard Norton-Taylor has written: A senior Home Office civil servant reported that Thatcher was ‘convinced that a secret communist cell around Scargill was orchestrating the strike in order to bring down the country’.2 Which raises the interesting question of what MI5 told Mrs Thatcher. […]
[PDF file]: […] and parliament. Tim Farron, Liberal-Democrat MP, at least has grasped half of one of the central issues: ‘When the programs systemically collecting your personal information are so secret that even the cabinet are not aware of their existence, our democratic oversight has rescinded to the point of extinction.’ Except ‘rescinded’ implies it existed in […]
[PDF file]: […] Please note: the longer documents referred to below in the footnotes are in the separate Appendices folder. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the day when they were invaded by the Red Army. In the […]
[…] referred to in the footnotes below, can be found in a separate file in the Appendices here. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the day when they were invaded by the Red Army. In the […]
