Our Guests

• John Booth—personal website: Forthzando - Dissent & Delight (https://forthzando.com/)
  

• Mark Campbell—Bowler or Fez Film Reviews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSokpkLnhiQ65-AJK8Ru3kQ)

• Antony Rotunno—podcasts: "Glass Onion : On John Lennon" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glass-onion-on-john-lennon/id1473867166); "Film Gold"  (https://anchor.fm/filmgold); "Life and Life Only" (https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/)

Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion

• Chris Mullin, A Very British Coup, Hodder & Stoughton (1982)

• TV Series: A Very British Coup at The British Film Institute (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/485767/)

• TV dramatisation: The Plot Against Harold Wilson (2006) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780586/)

• The Lobby, Al Jazeera (2017) (https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2017/1/10/the-lobby-young-friends-of-israel-part-1/)

• TMR 154: John Booth : Fifteen Years on from 9/11

• Lobster Magazine : The Journal of Politics, Parapolitics, & History (https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/)

• Declassified UK (https://declassifieduk.org/)

• Stephen Dorril & Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, Fourth Estate (1991)

• Duncan Campbell (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_(journalist))

• Secret State (2012) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1960029/)

• Ray McAnally (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McAnally)

• "The Czechoslovak spy who met Jeremy Corbyn", BBC News (25 February 2018)

• "British Army 'could stage mutiny under Corbyn', says senior serving general", The Independent (20 September 2015)

• Ali G meets Tony Benn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YYroSudUs) [JC: If you've not seen this, do. Notice, as one commenter does, that after the interview Sasha Baron Cohen shakes Tony Benn's hand rather than giving him the usual fist bump. I think the mutual respect (respek?) is clear.]

• Peregrine Worsthorne (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_Worsthorne)

• "The Secretive US Embassy-Backed Group Cultivating the British Left", Declassified UK (24 November 2022)

• Andy Beckett, "Friends in High Places", The Guardian (06 November 2004)

• The British-American Project (https://britishamericanproject.org/)

• Giles Scott-Smith, "Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, the US Embassy's International Visitor Program and the Labour Party in the 1980s", British Journal of Politics & International Relations 8(2):214-237, via ResearchGate (2006)

• "Keir Starmer's Journey to Jewishness" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHa9-mdEbUQ)

• Anatoliy Golitsyn (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn) [See the "accusing Harold Wilson" section and the books referenced there (so long as that bit doesn't get removed).]

  • "Did the KGB send Golitsyn to Angleton? One could just as easily subsitute MI5 for KGB... [Perhaps] Golitsyn was a two-way channel to Angleton and MI5, both of whom relied on him for their secret infomation. MI5 fed Golitsyn stories... which he then relayed to Angleton as his his own secret information." Dorril & Ramsay, Smear : Wilson and the Secret State, p 42.

Books suggested by John Booth

• Richard J Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, (2001)

• Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? : The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta (2000)

• Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Routledge (2003)

Acknowledgements & Copyright

• Podcast theme music: Moment of Green by Antony Raijekov (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

• The audio clip of Jeremy Corbyn is Copyright © 2022 Declassified UK, all rights reserved, and used by TMR with kind permission. (https://declassifieduk.org/).

  • The interview from which the clip was taken can be watched at the following URL (https://watch.declassifieduk.org/a/video/jeremy-corbyn-on-the-establishment-campaign-to-stop-him-becoming-prime-minister).

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