07-01-2009, 02:40 PM
Wilson was almost certainly right in his belief.
There was a planned military coup d'etat to be headed by Mountbatten and "managed" by Sir David Stirling, founder of the SAS. At least this is what I remember was the case. People like the extra nasty Brian Crozier (Bilderberg's in-house spook), the revengeful Peter Wright (Box) and the ever so cunning George Kennedy Young (SIS) were just three of those involved. The Army Operation "Clockwork Orange" run from the Army barracks in Lisburn in Ulster was involved according to Clockwork Orange "whistleblower" Colin Wallace (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace). I also think the CIA had a heavy guiding hand involved as well. It wasn't so much that Wilson was a communist (complete bollocks imo) but he was on the Labour left - and in charge - and those two facts alone were enough to overthrow him.
The most accomplished book on the subject (imo) is Robin Ramsay's and Steve Dorrill's SMEAR!: WILSON AND THE SECRET STATE.
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WHO WAS PLOTTING AN ARMY COUP TO GET RID OF HAROLD WILSON?
16/03/2006
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THIRTY years on, Paul Routledge says it's time to name bigwigs who planned to overthrow an elected PM.
IT was an announcement that shocked the nation. Thirty years ago today, Harold Wilson told Britain that he was stepping down as Prime Minster with three years still left to run.
No adequate reason was given for his decision and speculation and rumour spread like wildfire.
But somewhere in a safe, deep in the heart of Whitehall, lies a damning and very secret report that may yet reveal the great unsolved secret of the Harold Wilson years - did the security services plot a coup against the Labour Prime Minister?
And just how close did the tanks come to Number Ten?
Wilson firmly believed that he was the target of a dirty tricks campaign run by officers and ex-officers of MI5, MI6 and even the British army to bring down his government.
"A couple of thousand men in the Horse Guards Parade could do a lot of trouble before troops came - if they came," Wilson confided to his political secretary Marcia Williams.
Now new evidence has come to light that confirms Harold Wilson's worst anxieties. And that top secret Whitehall report on the spooks' plot could soon be forced into the open. When Jim Callaghan took over from Wilson as Prime Minister he ordered Lord Hunt, a former Cabinet Secretary, to investigate the alleged MI5 plot. The Hunt Report, kept under wraps for three decades, is believed to name names.
The smear campaign against Wilson began in the late 1940's when, as President of the Board of Trade, he negotiated vital food deals with Soviet Russia.
As a minister in Attlee's postwar government, as a backbench MP, as Labour leader after Hugh Gaitskell and as Prime Minister four times in the 1960's and 1970's, Wilson was the target of elements in the security services seeking his downfall.
In the view of hard-right MI5 mavericks like "Spycatcher" Peter Wright, who later confessed his role in the plot, Socialists were the same as Communists - intent on delivering the UK to the Kremlin.
Wright confessed: "We discussed how to get rid of him." Brian Crozier, another ex-spook, admits that "top members" of the Army were involved in the takeover talks.
Former arms minister Lord Chalfont agrees that a coup would have involved "very senior people." To bolster their sordid case for ousting a democratically-elected government, MI6 invented a Russian lover for Wilson, and passed a "compromising" photograph of the pair in Moscow to MI5 - who fed it straight to the media. It was also claimed that Wilson had taken bribes, and supplied classified information to Soviet "moles". A Soviet defector fingered the Prime Minister as a KGB agent, and claimed there was a Communist cell in Downing Street.
None of these preposterous stories were true, but they were also handed on to the CIA, whose leading operative James Jesus Angleton used them to discredit the Labour leader within the American administration. Wilson was thus suspected of playing into the hands of Communism when he began withdrawing British troops from Suez, even though it was in the nation's best economic interests.
The conspirators reached a lunatic height in 1967, when the Queen's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was sounded out as the possible leader of a military coup.
He was reluctant to get involved, but that didn't stop the plotters trying again in the 1970's, after Wilson had been returned to power in the general election called by Tory premier Ted Heath in the teeth of a national pit strike.
By then General Sir Walter Walker even prepared a speech for the Queen to read when a Mountbatten-led national government seized power.
The campaign against Wilson did not end in the early 1970's. It continued through his second and third governments.
Wilson called the then heads of MI5 and MI6 to account, and set in train the events that culminated in the Hunt Report. This investigation implicated Peter Wright and his friends, and George Kennedy Young, one-time head of MI6.
Now historian Stephen Dorril, co-author of Smear! Wilson And The Secret State, has asked Downing Street to produce the report.
Having just written a short biography of Harold Wilson myself for a new series on Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century, I am convinced that the Labour leader's suspicions about subversive spooks were both genuine and justifiable.
I do not believe that their treachery was the sole cause of his thunderbolt resignation. Wilson had told his wife, his closest political friends and the Queen that he intended to resign around his 60th birthday - which fell on March 11, 1976.
He was exhausted by years of running the country and holding the warring Labour party together - and Alzheimer's disease was setting in.
But I also believe that the spooks' subversive campaign waged against his leadership contributed powerfully to his weary frame of mind.
He knew his enemies would never cease their dirty tricks while he was in Number 10, and they would stop at nothing. It is perfectly possible - indeed, probable - that by standing down he averted the coup against democracy that he so feared.
With his wily genius gone, Labour stumbled on to defeat in 1979, and the conspirators got through the ballot box what they had plotted to gain by treachery - a right-wing Tory government.
Wilson's successors in Downing Street owe it to the nation to publish the Hunt Report in full.
Only then can the ghosts of 30 years ago be laid to rest.
There was a planned military coup d'etat to be headed by Mountbatten and "managed" by Sir David Stirling, founder of the SAS. At least this is what I remember was the case. People like the extra nasty Brian Crozier (Bilderberg's in-house spook), the revengeful Peter Wright (Box) and the ever so cunning George Kennedy Young (SIS) were just three of those involved. The Army Operation "Clockwork Orange" run from the Army barracks in Lisburn in Ulster was involved according to Clockwork Orange "whistleblower" Colin Wallace (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wallace). I also think the CIA had a heavy guiding hand involved as well. It wasn't so much that Wilson was a communist (complete bollocks imo) but he was on the Labour left - and in charge - and those two facts alone were enough to overthrow him.
The most accomplished book on the subject (imo) is Robin Ramsay's and Steve Dorrill's SMEAR!: WILSON AND THE SECRET STATE.
**
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid..._page.html
WHO WAS PLOTTING AN ARMY COUP TO GET RID OF HAROLD WILSON?
16/03/2006
babara.castle.harold.wilson
THIRTY years on, Paul Routledge says it's time to name bigwigs who planned to overthrow an elected PM.
IT was an announcement that shocked the nation. Thirty years ago today, Harold Wilson told Britain that he was stepping down as Prime Minster with three years still left to run.
No adequate reason was given for his decision and speculation and rumour spread like wildfire.
But somewhere in a safe, deep in the heart of Whitehall, lies a damning and very secret report that may yet reveal the great unsolved secret of the Harold Wilson years - did the security services plot a coup against the Labour Prime Minister?
And just how close did the tanks come to Number Ten?
Wilson firmly believed that he was the target of a dirty tricks campaign run by officers and ex-officers of MI5, MI6 and even the British army to bring down his government.
"A couple of thousand men in the Horse Guards Parade could do a lot of trouble before troops came - if they came," Wilson confided to his political secretary Marcia Williams.
Now new evidence has come to light that confirms Harold Wilson's worst anxieties. And that top secret Whitehall report on the spooks' plot could soon be forced into the open. When Jim Callaghan took over from Wilson as Prime Minister he ordered Lord Hunt, a former Cabinet Secretary, to investigate the alleged MI5 plot. The Hunt Report, kept under wraps for three decades, is believed to name names.
The smear campaign against Wilson began in the late 1940's when, as President of the Board of Trade, he negotiated vital food deals with Soviet Russia.
As a minister in Attlee's postwar government, as a backbench MP, as Labour leader after Hugh Gaitskell and as Prime Minister four times in the 1960's and 1970's, Wilson was the target of elements in the security services seeking his downfall.
In the view of hard-right MI5 mavericks like "Spycatcher" Peter Wright, who later confessed his role in the plot, Socialists were the same as Communists - intent on delivering the UK to the Kremlin.
Wright confessed: "We discussed how to get rid of him." Brian Crozier, another ex-spook, admits that "top members" of the Army were involved in the takeover talks.
Former arms minister Lord Chalfont agrees that a coup would have involved "very senior people." To bolster their sordid case for ousting a democratically-elected government, MI6 invented a Russian lover for Wilson, and passed a "compromising" photograph of the pair in Moscow to MI5 - who fed it straight to the media. It was also claimed that Wilson had taken bribes, and supplied classified information to Soviet "moles". A Soviet defector fingered the Prime Minister as a KGB agent, and claimed there was a Communist cell in Downing Street.
None of these preposterous stories were true, but they were also handed on to the CIA, whose leading operative James Jesus Angleton used them to discredit the Labour leader within the American administration. Wilson was thus suspected of playing into the hands of Communism when he began withdrawing British troops from Suez, even though it was in the nation's best economic interests.
The conspirators reached a lunatic height in 1967, when the Queen's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was sounded out as the possible leader of a military coup.
He was reluctant to get involved, but that didn't stop the plotters trying again in the 1970's, after Wilson had been returned to power in the general election called by Tory premier Ted Heath in the teeth of a national pit strike.
By then General Sir Walter Walker even prepared a speech for the Queen to read when a Mountbatten-led national government seized power.
The campaign against Wilson did not end in the early 1970's. It continued through his second and third governments.
Wilson called the then heads of MI5 and MI6 to account, and set in train the events that culminated in the Hunt Report. This investigation implicated Peter Wright and his friends, and George Kennedy Young, one-time head of MI6.
Now historian Stephen Dorril, co-author of Smear! Wilson And The Secret State, has asked Downing Street to produce the report.
Having just written a short biography of Harold Wilson myself for a new series on Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century, I am convinced that the Labour leader's suspicions about subversive spooks were both genuine and justifiable.
I do not believe that their treachery was the sole cause of his thunderbolt resignation. Wilson had told his wife, his closest political friends and the Queen that he intended to resign around his 60th birthday - which fell on March 11, 1976.
He was exhausted by years of running the country and holding the warring Labour party together - and Alzheimer's disease was setting in.
But I also believe that the spooks' subversive campaign waged against his leadership contributed powerfully to his weary frame of mind.
He knew his enemies would never cease their dirty tricks while he was in Number 10, and they would stop at nothing. It is perfectly possible - indeed, probable - that by standing down he averted the coup against democracy that he so feared.
With his wily genius gone, Labour stumbled on to defeat in 1979, and the conspirators got through the ballot box what they had plotted to gain by treachery - a right-wing Tory government.
Wilson's successors in Downing Street owe it to the nation to publish the Hunt Report in full.
Only then can the ghosts of 30 years ago be laid to rest.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14