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Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball
Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90
[…] sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and Bloom offers no source on this. And […]
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The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)
Using the UK FOIA, part II
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[…] who had contact with the CPGB,30 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for […]
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[…] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control. Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters.3 On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]
End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] discussion of the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan on p. 209. It turns out that the idea was proposed to ‘the plotters’ by an FBI agent. ‘Nearly half of the paramilitary group that planned to kidnap, put on trial, and execute Whitmer (the governor of Michigan) were feds or informers’. 7 The […]