19-10-2009, 09:39 PM
How the BBC conspired with the spooks to suppress independence in the colonies, and, in Britain, non-establishment perspectives on that imperative…
From Andrew Roth’s obituary for Lord (Hugh) Jenkins of Putney, The Guardian, 28 January 2004, p.29:
Bruce Kent added the following snippet on Jenkins’ time on Burmese radio:
From Andrew Roth’s obituary for Lord (Hugh) Jenkins of Putney, The Guardian, 28 January 2004, p.29:
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.”
Bruce Kent added the following snippet on Jenkins’ time on Burmese radio:
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.”