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    Re: WATCH: The Plot Against Harold Wilson2006 BBC Documentary Newly Relevant In Wake of Pompeo Leak Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on June 12, 2019, 9:32 am, in reply to " WATCH: The Plot Against Harold Wilson2006 BBC Documentary Newly Relevant In Wake of Pompeo Leak "

    Very interesting; thanks for posting.

    A good book on this subject:

    "Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State" by Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsey. You can find second hand copies for a couple of quid on the evil empire's site.

    From one of the reviews on A****n:

    This book covers a vast swathe of recent history - Vietnam, Rhodesia, the early miner's strikes, Northern Ireland, the Chilean coup, the `private armies' plotting to rescue Britain in the early seventies, the `Spycatcher' affair. Some topics seem touched on all too briefly and frustratingly - many short chapters on utterly disparate topics. Re the plots against Parliament by the South African and the Ulster-based intelligence services, for instance, it's tantalising not to be told more. Likewise for startling comments about an intense, multi-decade feud between MI5 and MI6, which may be running still. And yet this is how it must be, for the book is long as it is - and a very dense read. There's no way yet more could be squeezed in.

    This book is essential for anyone who cares about British democracy. Some themes are highly relevant today.
    · A network of covert assistants for MI5, MI6 and CIA among MPs (including ministers) and senior journalists - has this changed?
    · The power of the popular press to bully and discredit elected politicians- think Murdoch's phone-tapping operations and private detectives.
    · The cumulative long-term effect of the orchestrated mass repetition of lies.

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