Quote:“…the BBC was started in the early 1920s as a means of quietly raising revenue for British radio manufacturers, in order to develop radio signalling equipment for the British secret service…”

Quote:"...Appeasement was a fake. Appeasement implied not knowing Hitler's next move. In fact, it now appears that the future Allies were aware of most of these plans, allowing him to make increasingly reckless moves"

Peter Presland Wrote:Thanks Paul.

A previous post rung a bell and I searched 'Guido Giacomo Preparata' on Amazon.

The reviews of 'Conjuring Hitler' are informative and very much accord with my own developing knowledge and intuition on the whole 20th century historical record, as 'imprimatured' and carefully nurtured by the Anglo American Establishment.

I've ordered it.

Quote:“The possibility remains that some of these members may have been placed in ‘The Link’ as double agents, to encourage Hitler to believe that the wealthy in Britain were pro-Nazi and anti-communist.”

Quote:“England put on a mesmerizing show by feigning before the world that her ruling class was divided between pro-Nazis and anti-Nazis, and that such a scission accounted for the apparent lack of commitment to fight Hitler on the Western Front…”

Quote:“…in the 1926 Christmas edition of the Illustrated London News he [Baird] presented a breathtakingly early vision of what was in store. An artist’s impression had hostile tribesmen on the North-West frontier of India observed and tracked in the dark by solar-topeed troops who watched their movements on a screen,” (p.224).

Paul Rigby Wrote:Not quite your conventional take on the origins of the BBC:

Quote:“…the BBC was started in the early 1920s as a means of quietly raising revenue for British radio manufacturers, in order to develop radio signalling equipment for the British secret service…”

Tom McArthur & Peter Waddell. Vision Warrior: The Hidden Achievement of John Logie Baird (Orkney Press Ltd, 1990), p.277.

Quote:“A look at the early structuring of the BBC provides some fascinating facts. Originally the British Broadcasting Company, created in late 1922, consisted of six of the biggest radio-producing companies in the country. Their make-up reveals intriguing links…about the strength of American representation.

The companies were Metropolitan Vickers, originally British Westinghouse, a branch of the American Westinghouse Company, and subsequently owned by General Electric USA; British Thompson Houston, also bought by GE of America; British GEC, 60 per cent of whose shares…were owned by GE USA; The Radio Communications Company, specialising in naval radio, which had information and patent swaps with Metropolitan Vickers; Marconi Britain whose American firm was forced in 1919 by US Government order to join with GE to form RCA; and Western Electric, also American-owned, part of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company who were linked by patent swaps and trade agreements with GE USA in the 1930s…

With the BBC linked to such associates, it is hardly surprising that…*”

Paul Rigby Wrote:PS Didn't General Electric fund Hitler? Or have I misremembered my Anthony Sutton?

David Guyatt Wrote:

Paul Rigby Wrote:PS Didn't General Electric fund Hitler? Or have I misremembered my Anthony Sutton?

Rest assured that your memory is intact:

Chapter Three of Sutton "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler"

Quote:David Leigh omits one of his own most brilliant achievements in his review of Christopher Andrew’s The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (“Whispers and lies,” 10 October). This was his exposure (in the Observer) of the secret presence of an MI5 officer permanently based in Broadcasting House, whose task was to approve or veto all applications for BBC staff jobs after running the names through security service files. Rejected applications were stamped with a “Christmas tree” mark by this officer, who in the 1980s was reported to be a certain Brigadier Ronnie Stonham.

In one notorious case, Isabel Hilton was blacklisted on the idiotic grounds that she had been secretary of the Scotland-China association – most of whose members were retired Presbyterian missionaries. This monstrous and well-documented case of intelligence control of the media is not even mentioned in Andrew’s book. That reveals what the adjective “authorised” can mean. Perhaps the BBC scandal was omitted because something of the sort is still going on.

Quote:“Christmas Trees were the symbols put on the personal files of those who were considered to be a security risk. There was a Christmas Tree on the file of someone who had been friendly with a nationalist leader in Malaya, and another on the file of someone who had a close relative living in East Germany. These people could not be promoted beyond a certain grade…Christmas Trees were a lethal infection and their possessors were addressed by their bosses as if through a gauze mask.”

Quote:“…it is well known that the BBC is riddled with spooks”

Quote:“Government intervention …ensured that the BBC minimised the bomb’s dangers”

Quote:“Still in uniform, he was then seconded to the government of Burma and put in charge of English language programmes on Rangoon Radio. He gave airtime to Aung San, the leader of Burma’s nationalists, which put him in the black book of British intelligence and may well have undermined his attempts to join the BBC when he returned to England in 1947…In the late 1980s, he called for a body to monitor the security services…In 1993, he backed the intelligence services bill to provided such a supervisory body, recounting his own clashed with MI5 and MI6, which had blocked his passport at one stage and, presumably, been responsible for bugging his telephone and burgling his flat.”

Quote:“On Christmas Day 1945, he left the studio in charge of a Burmese independence activist, who played Colonel Bogey before the King’s speech, and Mad Dogs and Englishman immediately afterwards.”