Who’s kidding whom? The September issue of Fortean Times carried a five page article by Robert Irving, ‘The Henry X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated with the deadly […]
[…] 6 Apr 1939. P.R.O. ECG1/19, October 1939. Documents on German Foreign Policy (hereafter DGFP), Series D vol. VI, pp. 977-83, Wohltat’s minute of conversations with Sir Horace Wilson, Sir Joseph Ball and Robert Hudson, 24 Jul 1939; Documents and Material Relating to the Outbreak of the Second World War, vol.2, pp. 67-72, Dirksen’s report […]
A guided democracy The following appeared in the Daily Telegraph 23 June 2003. ‘Edward Heath created a secret government propaganda unit to persuade the British people to accept the Common Market. Civil servants were engaged in a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office to cover up the threat to sovereignty and provide rapid rebuttal […]
[…] been involved in the assassination. This is quite odd. Pepper doesn’t state that it was the white Mustang driven by Ray. The real thing or a copy, Wilson and a colleague went to the abandoned car and, says Wilson, as he opened the car door an envelope fell out onto the ground. Wilson, one […]
Russell Holden Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, hb, £47.50 The author is an enthusiastic supporter of the ‘reforms’ of the Labour Party and a Senior Lecturer in European Studies. His thesis is that the changes in Labour’s policy from anti- to pro-EU membership are the core of the ‘reforming’ of Labour in the 1980s and 90s […]
The Enemy Within Seamus Milne Verso, London, 1994 Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party Francis Beckett John Murray, London,1995 Seamus Milne has written a very good book, an essential book. Investigative journalism in this country is very hard to do, and Milne deserves great praise for this achievement.(1) The core […]
The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]
[…] amplifying the Combat 18 ‘threat’, knowing that it was a state operation. So tell me, pray, why do we have a police squad targetting an MI5 operation? Wilson Plots The sound of marching feet. ‘Captains of industry’ sometimes write books in the ‘How To Save Britain’ sub-genre. (I remember an anthology in the late […]
Donovan Pedelty Prometheus Press, Builth Wells, Powys, £13.50 This is a fascinating book. As the Labour Party approaches its 100th birthday, Donovan Pedelty critically assesses the extent to which it has realised its aim. In a detailed and well-argued account, he shows that whereas Labour always espoused equality, nevertheless the gulf between rich and poor […]
Donald Allen During 1987, when some of the London media were pursuing the ‘ Wilson plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from […]
