[PDF file]: […] to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project government blessing. During the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial ex-Minister Alan Clark let the cat out of the bag revealing that ‘the interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting […]
[PDF file]: […] of civil society. In the infantile jargon of the British political system, it was an attempt to ‘bounce’ the proposals through Cabinet, having already primed prime minister Churchill (who, like many other prime ministers, knew little about economics).5 But after an intense struggle, described in detail by one ofthe participants, Donald Macdougall, the Robot […]
[PDF file]: […] appeasers – either in Britain or in the Nazi regime. It is quite plausible that the flight offered a long odds attempt to reach conciliation with anti- Churchill elements and allow a month for German forces on the Western front to be relocated and participate in the coming planned assault on the Soviet Union.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] again. Into this domestic anti-communist climate came the USA’s loans – and the people and ideas, the strings attached to the money. From the first request from Churchill for clandestine assistance before America had officially entered the war, the U.S. ‘aid’ had come with strings attached. Despite his famous remark that he had not […]
[PDF file]: […] of this journal. Speculation about what was really behind it goes back to the Second World War itself. Successive British administrations from the time of the 1940-45 Churchill Coalition have maintained that Hess flew to the UK in May 1941 in an unprovoked solo attempt to make peace between London and Berlin. It is […]
[PDF file]: […] We need to be clear that when we use the term ‘known’ we mean ‘known’ within diplomatic, military, naval and political circles; and quite widely at that. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was tirelessly canvassing for a seizure of Narvik coupled with mining operations in Norwegian and Swedish waters. He did so […]
[…] We need to be clear that when we use the term ‘known’ we mean ‘known’ within diplomatic, military, naval and political circles; and quite widely at that. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was tirelessly canvassing for a seizure of Narvik coupled with mining operations in Norwegian and Swedish waters. He did so […]
[PDF file]: […] unfair. The trial judge will not allow the use of PII if the effect is to render the trial process unfair to the defendant. In the Matrix Churchill trial of 1992, Judge Brian Smedley QC, needed much persuasion before ordering the disclosure of the documents suppressed by the PII certificates and Mr Rupert Allason […]
[PDF file]: […] Sansom’s Dominion (2012) are all bleak and plausible stories in which Britain is either invaded and defeated after Dunkirk, or sues for peace, with the appeasers ousting Churchill from power. Hitler winning seems a particularly popular story line today; but a clear inference to be drawn from all of this, whether in the UK […]
[PDF file]: DECADES OF DECEIT: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy Paddy Hillyard Belfast: Beyond the Pale Books, 2024, £20 Simon Matthews This is a very detailed, complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or […]
