[…] in the intelligence response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait……’ Let us look at this ‘response’. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph on 16 September 2001, Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, stated: ‘……I worked in British military intelligence before, and during the Gulf War. We failed to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. After the war….. inevitably […]
[…] how their accuracy has been confirmed by the report. (See for more details.) Notes 1 Anon, ‘Labourer Accused of Murrell Killing’,Birmingham Post 4 November 2003, p.3; Jamie Wilson, ‘Two Arrested over 1984 Murder of Peace Activist’, The Guardian 17 February, 2004, p.2; Richard War-burton , ‘Murrell Mystery: Two Held by Police’, Birmingham Post, 17 […]
[…] same time there was another smear campaign against John Strachey, the Minister of War. (These campaigns bear remarkable similarities to the later plots against Ministers in the Wilson governments.) According to de Courcy, on 14th September 1951, two MI5 officers under the orders of Roger Hollis were sent to Paris to interview French officials […]
Tribune 21/28 August 1987 JOHN WARE is an investigative reporter, widely regarded, by his peers, as one of the best television journalists working in this country. He worked with World in Action and is now with BBC’s Panorama. It was to John Ware that Panorama entrusted its investigation into the Wilson-MI5 plots after the BBC […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] 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, […]
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[…] 1790-1988 (London, 1989). Thus Kenneth O. Morgan’s study, The People’s Peace 1945-1990 (Oxford, 1992), in many ways a fine book, barely refers to the plots against the Wilson Governments. Morgan discusses the Mountbatten incident but only on the basis of Cecil King’s diaries. There is no reference to the work of Dorril and Ramsay […]
