THE WILSON PLOT: The Intelligence Services and the Discrediting of a Prime Minister 1945-1976

Leigh, David

ISBN 10: 0434413402 / ISBN 13: 9780434413409

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1988

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This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight and square. There is some typical age toning to the page edges but this does not affect the text or the plates. There is an attractive bookplate to the front paste down. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Traces the events leading to the accusation that Harold Wilson, head of Britain's Labour government, was a spy. Since the mid-1970s, a variety of conspiracy theories have emerged regarding British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. These range from Wilson having been a Soviet agent, to Wilson being the victim of treasonous plots by conservative-leaning elements in MI5 and the British military (e.g., the Clockwork Orange plot), claims which Wilson himself made. Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn is said to have told a British intelligence officer that Wilson was a KGB operative and that former Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell had been assassinated by the KGB to have the pro-US Gaitskell replaced as party leader by Wilson. Ref EE 3.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE WILSON PLOT: The Intelligence Services and the Discrediting of a Prime Minister 1945-1976
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434413402
• ISBN 13: 9780434413409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

It could be the lurid plot of a bestselling thriller... yet in The Wilson Plot leasing investigative journalist David Leigh reveals the full true story behind the extraordinary conspiracy first hinted at by Peter Wright. Drawing on Wright's own private confessions and unpublished correspondence, on the recollections of MI5 and MI6 officers, and on the testimony of former FBI and CIA members, Leigh explores how Wright himself and CIA chief James Angleton led a bizzare campaign against Labour Prime Minster Harold Wilson, his government, advisers and friends.