It is peculiar timing for the unionist rag The Scotsman, to declare it had solved the mystery of Willie McRae’s death – just when security service tasking on the SNP returns to the levels of 1975-86.
The Scotsman claims that the police had first removed the vehicle and then replaced it, and this explains the mystery of why the gun was so far from the car after McRae’s remarkable two shot “suicide”. For me, that adds just another level of improbability to so very many. How, inside a car, you shoot yourself in the head in such a way that the gun falls out of the window, seems problematic. The car was crashed over a burn; how you order that with the suicide is peculiar.
The case is a notorious one in Scotland. There was never any indication of McRae having suicidal tendencies. He was driving to a destination – his cottage – where he was expected and he had phoned ahead for the fires to be lit. A briefcase of documents went missing from his car. Several retired policemen have affirmed he was under police and security service surveillance, which since his death the authorities refuse to comment on. He was not only a leading member of the SNP, but an effective anti-nuclear activist. All that I already knew – what was new to me was that he had also been investigating a senior paedophile ring. It is tempting to put that together with his having been ADC to Louis Mountbatten, but I confess that is mere speculation.
Establishment lackeys have been trying to ridicule my assertion that the SNP is a major security service target. Many know they are lying, and deliberately are trying to distract. But for those who are actually naïve, is it not extraordinary that anytime anybody mentions anything the security services do, it is dismissed as “conspiracy theory”. GCHQ, MI5, MI6 and SO15 employ over 50,000 people between them. What do you actually think they do all day?
“What do you actually think they do all say? ”
Well, I suppose its good morning when they clock on and arrivederci when they leave.
50.000? and going up I suppose, subterfuge must be increasing that it takes so many people to control and manipulate to keep the Status Quo.
Those who lie to detract will already be working on other schemes to undermine the SNP.
heard today in a debate before 10 am, I was still in bed half asleep but heard the BBC use this falsity to question ‘why it should matter that The SNP favours a Conservative leadership’ or to such extent, they are working it into the day to day news vernacular.
I’m sure there is more in the offing before the election is ‘done/organised’…..
“What do you actually think they do all day*?”
Fair point.
On the bright side at least they have jobs. God knows what this kind of person would be doing otherwise. I’d guess organised cri, O hang on.
“Establishment lackeys …”
No names, no pack drill, Charles.
You could say that taking two shots to the head and then throwing the gun 50 yards out of the car window looks suspicious, but the clincher is that he had earlier, before setting off, bought himself a decent bottle of malt whisky to take on his journey and it was untouched. Makes no sense.
How many people worked on code-breaking and and communications surveillance during the World War II? Might be an interesting comparison.
You can be sure that a chunk of GCHQ will be IT folks for the data capture, and initial scan. Then there will be the folks who work on the ID database. I know the Government says they don’t have one, but I would bet they do, the scanning mechanisms will need one to select items of interest.
A portion will be doing anti-terrorist work, but you can bet there will be a group tucked away with some nondescript name that is monitoring the Scottish insurgents.
A gentleman named Gary Murray examined the case of William McRae among others, including that of Hilda Murrell, in an interesting book called Enemies of the State, published in 1993 with an introduction by Tam Dalyell.
http://www.garymurray.co.uk/enemiesofthestate.html
His website says it is out of print, but perhaps Abebooks or Amazon 2ndhand would stock it. I do not know how much credence to place upon it, but it gives very good general background and is very much worth reading. It’s full of human interest as well.
Kind regards,
John
Hey Fred, thank you for the tip on italics etc.
Works fine. Thanks J
@Jake. One bullet was found in his head according to the autopsy report.
John Have you come across ‘A Thorn in Their Side’ written by Robert Green, Hilda Murrell’s nephew and an ex Commander RN?Recommend.
There’s a Kickstarter campaign to raise £800 to write a book about Willie McRae’s strange death.
“In 1985, the SNP’s Willie McRae was found dying in his crashed car – with a bullet to his head. In 2015, it’s time to end the silence.”
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1445647860/30-years-of-silence-the-mysterious-death-of-willie
They are no more going to admit to this than to the murder of Diana, Princess of Wales. There is as much chance of an admission from our secret services than from the CIA for the murder of Michael Hastings. They don’t do admissions, unless it’s to the morgue.
“GCHQ, MI5, MI6 and SO15 employ over 50,000 people between them. What do you actually think they do all day?”
Work out how to implement the latest equality and diversity directive. For example, is MI5 recruiting enough gay Asian women? Do GCHQ staff have suffficient access to prayer rooms and halal dining options? Can we improve community outreach by sending more S015 officers on mosque visits? It all costs time and money.
Thanks, Mary. I haven’t read it, but Commander Green is discussed in Mr Murray’s book.
Kind regards,
John
Speaking of Princess Diana, I found this book persuasive: How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth, by John Morgan. However, I know little about the case, beyond what I have read in Morgan’s book, and so I suppose I am not the one to judge.
“I found this book persuasive: How They Murdered Princess Diana: The Shocking Truth, by John Morgan.”
Did you find it in one of the libraries at Oxford, Lysias?
Oh dear. Kim John Goss has started on his Diana theories already. We’ll be on to Diego Garcia by tea time.
I recall in happier days on this blog when the conspiracy theories ran wild and unchecked, some of the regulars were imploring Craig to tear the battery out of his mobile phone so as to avoid targetted assassination by the security services. Such amusing reading it was almost a shame to intervene.
“Establishment lackeys have been trying to ridicule my assertion that the SNP is a major security service target. ”
Not hard when you use phrases like “establishment lackeys”, Craig, in all honesty.
The use of the term “conspiracy theory” to ridicule dissenting views of problematic events was originated by the CIA to counter theories about the JFK assassination that did not accept the Warren Commission’s version of events. We have the document that originated this use: CIA Document 1035-960: Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report (Jan. 4, 1967).
Yeah MI5 don’t really make a secret of the fact that they target ‘nationalists’. Their website indicates that they classify them as domestic extremists.(https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/what-we-do/the-threats/terrorism/domestic-extremism.html)
For those who don’t know their is a petition for a FIA for Willie Mcrae’s death:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fatal-accident-inquiry-for-willie-mcrae
Yes,it appears to be perfect timing,the announcement that Willie McRae’s car had been moved.
Especially when thousands of people have signed an online petition demanding a FAI.
For those of you not well versed,on Willie McRae,read this.
http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMWhoKilledWillieMacRae.aspx
Try as they may, the Establishment will never wipe out the achievements of Willie MacRae in winning the Mulwacher Inquiry, preventing Nuclear dumping in Ayrshire and his legacy of opposing nuclear dumping in Glen Etive and elsewhere.
Willie also helped frame the constitution of India and would no doubt have been active in framing a constitution of a Free Scotland.
A life long SNP member, Willie was at various times legal adviser to, Vice Chair of and Parliamentary Candidate for the Party. No “narrow nationalist”, he was simultaneously a captain in the Royal Indian Navy and a true friend of Indian Independence.
The author of Israel’s Maritime Law Code and emeritus Professor in the University of Haifa. After his death Israel planted a 3,000 tree forest in his memory.
Yet Willie could and did make a busy commercial practice take second place to the problems of an Asian client in Glasgow, a neighbour in Kintail, or someone whose Civil Rights seemed endangered anywhere.
Willie McRae,wasn’t just a one trick pony,and if the establishment can describe,Nicola Sturgeon as the most dangerous woman,in Britain today (dangerous in breaking the strangled hold at Westminster).
The Willie McRae was back then,the most dangerous man in Britain,in the fact he could’ve damaged the Westminster establishment,with information he held.
“MI5 or MI6 faked the leak about Nicola Sturgeon”.
“Sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory, you know politicians, you cant trust any of them, especially not the nationalists, they will say anything to get what they want.”
“They did, no-one believes that shit”
“hmmmm, I admit, its seems like a crock of shit, but MI5, c’main, get over yourselves, look, here is another conspiracy theory about the secret service and the SNP; the Scotsman has released this info about Willy McRae, and all the time the Nats have been bleating on about how it was a big conspiracy”
“Surely you dont beleive this nonsense, it doesnt make sense; … a, b, c reasons”
“Nationalists are conspiracy theorists”
I just find the police suicide theory implausible. The car was found 300 metres off the road. You needed binoculars to make it out. He had set off about 6pm from Glasgow. At exactly this time of year. When there would be daylight. It’s a three hour drive. He was half and hour from his cottage. On that basis the incident might have taken place about 8-8.30 pm. Maybe later, if he’d stopped off somewhere. The police said two shots were fired from the gun. One of them went into his head behind the right ear. It’s a small bullet, it wasn’t noticed at first. At the point he went off the road (police photographs show) there was a lay-by and the photographs show tyre marks from vehicle heading off down the slope towards the direction in which the car was eventually found. You might assume that he would have pulled into the layby to top himself if the urge to do away with himself half an hour from his cottage and a roaring fire and your fine malt whisky had been too much for him. And not driven off the road. The police tested the vehicle. It had been well-maintained. The brakes worked fine. The police theory is that the reason the gun was found in the stream, and not in the car, at his feet, was that it had fallen out of the car as it bumped down this slope. That seems possible, it was rough ground, a heavy car like that heading off down a slope could well have had the driver’s door jarred open. But for it to do so, somebody would have had to have had their foot on the gas.
I have tried letting my car roll down a slope without me engaging the gears or pressing the gas pedal, and it just comes to a halt after about 30 yards. And that was on a surfaced road. Willie’s car had to bump its way down over rough moorland, full of that rough tufty grass and depressions and humps. I can’t see how it could have ended up in that position unless somebody was driving it. And if it was Willie, with the view to shooting himself once he had travelled far enough off the road to be not seen, then why wasn’t the gun found at his feet?
The following piece is sort of related, because it’s about oversight of the UK security services, following the recent CIA torture report:
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2015/04/03/cia-interrogations-what-have-we-learned-in-the-uk/
The establishment have form when it comes to silencing activists,Hilda Murrell,also stood up to men in trench coats,over the nuclear industry,and paid a heavy price for it.
Though her murder was pinned on 16 year old boy,Hilda’s nephew,a British Navy Commander believes it was the establishment who allmark were all over the case.
http://hildamurrell.org
Of course its not just the Westminster establishment,who carry out such,nefarious deeds, in 1985 the French Secret Service blew up the Green peace boat the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand,a crew member died.
Re my last comment,
The blowing up of the Rainbow Warrior,was a warning,not to interfere or protest,against France’s nuclear tests, in the South Pacific.
Donnie
6 Apr, 2015 – 3:57 pm
mmm, well yes, but we do have to be careful about that, it does specify violent nationalists. (of course if this was true they’d have to target our own army etc.)
Don’t get me wrong, I think they are mostly a bunch of hypocrites criminals / traitors subverting ours and others democracy, But I wouldn’t want to tarnish the good name of a few good apples trying to do good or prevent harm.
Come to think of it, it must be pretty hard to believe that, but you know what they say, when your job depends on not seeing.
Maybe one day they will wake and notice it’s all gone a bit North Korea.
One of Willie MacRae”s most famous quotes,from the Mullwhacher report, (a report that stopped the dumping of nuclear waste,in Ayrshire).
Is “Nuclear waste,should be stored,where Guy Fawkes, put his gunpowder.”
Sometimes,I find it hard to disagree with him.