The Plot Against Harold Wilson

[Paul Rigby]

http://home.alphalink.com.au/~loge27/c_w...ission.htm
http://www.historycooperative.org/procee...maher.html

Is this useful to you Paul?

Evatt was a very bright man. Brighter than most. If he was dismissed by the spook propaganda circus as a conspiracy-obsessed nut it was because they were conspiring against him and others.

Thanks, Magda. I've read Robert Manne's book, The Petrov Affair (1987), and a very substantial bucket of whitewash it is, too.

Must mention in passing that Petrov was identified as a Beria man by ASIO (see the thread on Evica's fascinating book for the primary purpose of Operation Splinter Factor); and thus a prime target for bringing down.

Bialoguski, cultivator-in-chief of Petrov, reads at times like a Stephen Ward figure. Was Ward's actual role rather different to the one publicly portrayed? Just a thought for future reference.

Paul

Tantalising what you say about the Operation Splinter Evica thread. Do you have a handy link for that?

By Operation Splinter Factor, I meant the book by Stewart Steven, whose thesis, very obviously the product of some very selective anti-Angleton briefing, sought to persuade us of a very big lie - to wit, that the CIA ran a very active and very large campaign to liberate Eastern Europe from Soviet control.

In fact, in so far as I can make sense of what happened, precisely the reverse was true: the objective of the CIA was to provoke repression and continued Soviet military occupation, the better to continue the US assault on the traditional Western European colonial powers - chiefly Britain and France - while refashioning Germany to Washington's purposes.

The major CIA interventions were therefore designed to scupper those leaders and factions within Moscow who sought to loosen control or, as in Beria's case, withdraw from Eastern Europe. The CIA targeted Beria's men in embassies across the world to thwart their patron's initiatives and charm offensives; and when Beria fell - thanks in large measure to the Berlin uprising which united Red Army, the Communist Party and the CIA in one of the more remarkable confluences of interest in the early post-WWII phase of the Cold War - these were thought, with good reason, easy pickings for defection operations.

My take on this is not shared, as far as I can tell, by any historian of note, and there is, thus, no readily available link.

I think Ward was a much more interesting and multidimensional character than Bialoguski who just seems another garden variety anti-Bolshevik Russophobe to me.

I don't know enough about Bialoguski to comment.

I need to read up more on the whole Wilson government.

Treat yourself for Christmas and start here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smear-Wilson-Sec...0586217134