Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove
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It goes into some detail on Peter Wright, "Spycatcher", Wright's input to "Their trade is Treachery", Chapman Pincher, etc. etc. etc. No mention, however, of "The Thing". .
Reminded me that "One Girl's War" by Joan Miller that resides in a pile, another book that Thatcher tried to ban. .
Next: "The changing anatomy of Britain (revised & updated post election edition)" by Anthony Sampson.
The election in question being the 1979 that brought in someone who managed to destroy entire swathes of British Industry.
The Reds didn't need Harold Wilson, they did just as well with that bitch. Now there's a rumour: Thatcher the Soviet Spy.
Review of the New New Anatomy (i.e. a post millennial one rather than a 1980s one):
https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/anat...nthony-sampson
Gosh there's a lot of anatomy that's changed out of all recognition.
Who remembers Central Television, Thames TV, LWT, Channel, or Harlech? All gone as if they'd never been.
Oh the alphabet soup of the quangocracy:
NEB: National Enterprise Board. Beam me up.
NRDC: National Research and Development Corporation.
BTG: the combination of the above into the British Technology Group, this last now, after privatisation was bought by Boston Scientific Corporation, incorporated in Delaware, always a good sign. .
IRC: The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation: a Wilson invented quango. Never heard of it.
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