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?
Find the lack of interest in who killed Willie McRae mind bogging.
Looks to me, though I never even knew of his murder until now, as if it is part of the SAS et al. killings in revenge for the Brighton bombing of the Conservative leadership in 1984. After having killed convenient IRA targets, they went on the rampage against any alleged supporters of them, like businessman Frederick Jackson, and Scottish Nationalists might have fitted into their paranoia.
Little wonder that Gerry Adams being behind the murder of Jean McConville surfaced again just before this broke.
“Kim John Goss has started on his Diana theories already. We’ll be on to Diego Garcia by tea time.”
Happy to stick with Diana for the time being Habby mark 1 since everybody may not have seen this posted yesterday. They kept it off our screens for years so now I guess, with 233 thousand viewings, there is not much they can do about it. Well worth watching if you haven’t seen it. Or even if you have.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/04/stunning-new-leaked-document/#comment-518088
O/T
Boris Johnson is recommending Michael Bloomberg to stand in the forthcoming election for Mayor of London! Bloomberg was Mayor of New York thrice.
This is just like the ConDem’s wish to foist Bratton on us i/c of the Met. He was head of the New York police.
Do these petty rulers/ex Bullingdon boys take us for fools?
Concerning the above I apologise to people I never got chance to respond to yesterday, Abe Rene, Lysias et al.
The Strabane ambush in February 1985 was the closest to McRae’s, and the one in Northern Ireland was used by the securocrats to give Captain Simin Hayward an alibi for not leading the ambushes of Francis Bradley and Sweden’s Olof Palme just a year later.
When Hayward was set up in Sweden the following year, The Sun’s Neil Wallis wrote about the Ops Officer of the 14 Intelligence Company’s Middle District leading the massacre at Strabane – what Hayward denied effectively by stating in Under Fire that he only went back to Ulster in June 1985.
Strabane was really the most notorious ‘Shoot to Kill’ policy until it seems to have taken out McRae.
The Tories gain little by diminishing the SNP, for that patch is lost. So the government has no strong reason to order a covert smear campaign, especially when the next government would have access to the details and could reveal them after the election, damning the Tory party forever. So it would have to be a rogue action by the security service. Fine, but if you are going to take a risk on so trivial an issue, you would make the hit tell. This memo was a minor embarrassment. The improbability is overwhelming before one even goes into the detail.
One of the things they do is to “divide and rule” Muslims by revealing odd bits of trash about one group to another, using Muslim spooks.
Another thing they do is to get Muslim spooks to “sting” unwary Muslims to add to “the list” of jokehadi Al-Queenida mercenaries to use in false-flag operations, get found on the Turkish-Syria border and get “embedded” inside Israel-mick Stoat.
BBC World Service is another of their operations, promoating the Israel-mick Stoat to distant nations.
Preserving the druidic-mithraic-polytheist re-incarnation myths of the ancient heebijeebrews in the form of the Christian theology takes up a surprising amount of Royal time. No-one would want to be governed by bums without blue blood on a phoney insurance salesman mantra of third party blood redemption of sins – would they?
Promoting the worship of sport and protection of billionaires.
The salaried workers might be 50,000 but it probably takes a couple of million subbies on zero-hours contracts to keep the rubbish contraption of UK PLC on the road, like a clapped-out old jag.
On the subject of nuclear weapons.
Most folk think the US navy has dozens of Trident submarines at sea. Not so. Back in 1960s, when undersea nuclear deterrence began, the US could deploy 41 subs. But since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the latest economic crisis, the US Navy’s Trident ballistic missile fleet has shrunk to just 14 subs.
These are very near the end of their operational lives. Such is the massive cost of designing and building replacements, America’s missile fleet is likely to shrink to 10. That’s not a lot compared to the UK’s four Trident subs. Now you know why the Pentagon needs Britannia on board.
the Chinese industrial powerhouse looks bent on out-building the US Navy. The People’s Liberation Army Navy is changing from being designed to guard the coast into an ocean armada. Key is construction of the new Jin-class ballistic nuclear submarines.
Each will carry 12 JL-2 ballistic missiles with a range of 8000km. These missiles will let China target large portions of the United States for the first time. In January, the Chinese media claimed four Jin-class boats were operational. The US reckons as many as a dozen could be planned.
Enter the UK. Britain’s decision to replace Trident was made by the Labour government in December 2006, at the same time as America’s move in that direction. Then last year, the Tory-LibDem coalition quietly renewed Britain’s longstanding nuclear weapons co-operation treaty with the US, the so-called Mutual Defence Agreement, which dates back to 1958.
The heart of this edition of the treaty is a deal to co-operate on designing warheads and reactors for the new generation of Trident subs.
The US could go it alone in submarine development, though it helps if the British taxpayer covers some of the ludicrous costs. The ultimate reason America maintains the Mutual Defence Agreement with Britain is political – to make sure the UK, as a junior partner, can never use its nukes independently of the White House.
Every Lockheed Trident D5 missile at sea today is rented from the Pentagon. Royal Navy submarines must visit the US base in Kings Bay, Georgia for the maintenance and replacement of these missiles – so much for referendum scare stories about the strategic importance of Faslane.
Britain’s part in Trident 2 is now well under way. The UK Ministry of Defence used the Christmas parliamentary recess, with media attention elsewhere, to slip out news of its latest increase in spending on the project’s “assessment phase” – a euphemism to disguise the fact parliament has not technically approved the new subs.
The MoD has sanctioned another £261 million of funding, £206m of which will be spent on new facilities at the BAE Systems shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness.
Britain is under heavy pressure from America to increase defence spending, as the new global arms race accelerates. George Osborne has played a blinder convincing folk the UK economy has recovered. But the truth is Britain is an industrial basket-case, with productivity falling and most “growth” generated by financial speculation, so the UK can’t afford its current military establishment, far less Trident 2.
The MoD faces a 10 per cent real cut over the next five years. That should make scrapping Trident 2 a no-brainer. Alas, my guess is that even a minority Labour government will feel obliged to tow the Pentagon line. We’ve been here before: the Labour government of 1945 went ahead with a secret programme to create the original British nuclear arsenal, despite chronic economic austerity.
Now you know why the major parties at Westminster,keep pushing the Trident agenda.
Apologies for the long post.
@John Goss “I apologise to .. Abe Rene..”
For what? Well, you’re forgiven whatever it was. Go in peace. 🙂
@Craig “What do you actually think they do all day?”
Possible responses, take your pick:
1. GCHQ cracks codes, MI6 runs agents outside the UK, MI5 inside, a large chunk of them against terrorism.
2. Deciding on whether carpets should be blue or red inside MKI5 HQ and that Chicken Madras, not Vindaloo should be on the menu – such things aren’t to get through so many committees, you know.
3. Supporting the interests of capitalists, Zionists, aristos, royals and Americans, of course. Not the British Constitution, since there isn’t any (proof: not listed on amazon).
4. Not telling you, it’s a secret. 🙂
(corrected item)
2. Deciding on whether carpets should be blue or red inside MI5 HQ, and that Chicken Madras, not Vindaloo should be on the menu – such things aren’t easy to get through so many committees, you know.
@RepublicofScotland. You seem to know a lot about this topic. I’ve never been able to get to the bottom of the question of “could a British government, even in theory, launch Trident missiles without American permission?” I don’t mean could they do it legally as per NATO policies/treaties etc, I mean could they do it physically or would there be technical issues that would make it impossible, e.g. dependence on US sattelites for navigation or whatever. Do you know the answer?
Regarding Craig’s original post, I do hope that an independent Scottish government would open the Dunblane files, which are sealed for a suspiciously long time, only the files on Rudolf Hess are sealed for longer.
Pete.
Could the UK physically launch a Trident missile without the U.S.A ‘s permission?
It a very intriguing question Pete,sadly I don’t have the answer,though I would imagine strict protocols would need to be adhered to,the question is could they be bypassed.
Pete,you might find the answer about Trident here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom
As for the Dunblane Massacre,I agree that a cover up took place,was Lord Cullen complicit in the affair?
This is an intresting article,on the matter its worth a read.
http://www.dunblaneexposed.info/2005/06/i-blame-police-sex-ring-for-conspiracy-of-silence-over-the-dunblane-massacre/
Pete an excerpt from Wiki regarding Trident
The Prime Minister would send an authentication code which could be verified at Northwood. The Commander in Chief would then broadcast a firing order to the submarines via the Very Low Frequency radio station at Rugby.
The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation.
Northwood Headquarters are in Hertfordshire.
Pete, politically, UK nuclear weapons are controlled from Washington. It’s not an exagerration to say that the UK is an off-shore American missile base.
Cold War fear made the UK poodle bend over; but we are now in much different times.
Craig
Your post has thrown up a lot of tantalising points, from which I’d infer you don’t believe on the suicide story.
So why not be concrete? Who, in your opinion, killed him and why?
Remember that Charles Haughey, the Republic’s PM, denounced the Strabane massacre in these challenging terms: “All constitutional national politicians are deeply concerned about the level of alienation there is in the six counties area of a large number of people from the entire process of Government and the administration of justice… Western parliamentary democracies cannot in any way stand over a shoot-to-kill policy by its security forces.”
Anon1
““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?”
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Perhaps it was serialised in the Navy Times, to which he is a subscriber, or he may have picked it up in his Berlin PX.
He may have found the book persuasive, I just wish I could say the same about him.
Czech president bans US ambassador from Prague castle: Milos Zeman says he has “closed the door” of the castle to Ambassador Andrew Schapiro in row over Ukraine:
Clocked on late tonight I see. Different rota.
“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.”
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Yes, I remember that.
I also recall once asking the regular dissidents and freedom-fighters on here whether they had ever been troubled in any way by the evil agents of the corrupt,fascist and tyrannical state known as the UK.
Answer came there none. 🙂
“Yes, I remember that.”
You ought to as you two are clones. What do they call a cloned sock-puppet?
That’s right. A pair of socks.
RepublicOfNonense
“the Chinese industrial powerhouse looks bent on out-building the US Navy. The People’s Liberation Army Navy is changing from being designed to guard the coast into an ocean armada. Key is construction of the new Jin-class ballistic nuclear submarines.
Each will carry 12 JL-2 ballistic missiles with a range of 8000km. These missiles will let China target large portions of the United States for the first time. In January, the Chinese media claimed four Jin-class boats were operational. The US reckons as many as a dozen could be planned.”
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So why do you think the Chinese are busily enhancing their offensive capabilities, RoN?
You seem to find that a good thing – am I reading you correctly?
Mr Goss
You had quite a few of your “John Goss moments” on the previous thread. I had hoped you’d have got over that bad patch but I see you haven’t. Is there anything we can do to help apart from offering you our sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery?
PS – have you had any further thoughts about up-dating your photo on here?
“Regarding Craig’s original post, I do hope that an independent Scottish government would open the Dunblane files, which are sealed for a suspiciously long time, only the files on Rudolf Hess are sealed for longer.”
Some say the man in Spandau wasn’t Hess. Some say Hess died 25th August 1942 along with the Queen’s uncle the Duke of Kent when the flying boat they were in crashed on take off into a place called Eagles Rock.
Who knows.
Certainly Simon Hayward would be a good candidate for the murder, finishing up his training for The Operators in Scotland by bumping off McRae.
If Hayward didn’t do it, I’m sure he would have a good idea who did. Remember he was obliged to use a Smith & Wesson revolver because he needed to use both hands in shooting because of those shortened fingers on his right hand.
Pressure growing on Mr Tsipras and his SYRIZA government to drop his extreme left-wingers and his very nationalist right-wing coalition partner ANEL and form a parliamentary alliance with former governing party PASOK and the left-centre party To Potami.
Ah, the realities of government…!
It all looks so easy when you’re promising the earth before an election.
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Implausible suicides are a signature of extrajudicial killing in the NATO satellites. McCrae’s flying gun is in the grand tradition of Gary Webb, who shot himself twice in the head amid hammy official shrugs and, Hey, it happens… and Jack Wheeler, who went to the dump and bonked himself on the head. It’s a warning.
Mr Goss
Well, have you ever suffered in any way for expressing your views with such vigour?
Been inside? Lost your job or ever got blacklisted? Had your mail opened and telephone bugged? Survived any assassination attempts? Beaten up on the street by mysterious thugs?
If not, why not, in your opinion?
After all, you live in a fascist, thuggish state with a fondness for sssassinating dissidents, don’t you?
Essential to inverted totalitarianism is that it should maintain the appearance of being democratic.
So except against the totally marginalized and powerless, force is only used when the rulers regard it as absolutely essential.
“Some say” this, “some say” something else.
“Who knows.”
Aside from the lack of a question mark there Fred this observation appears to convey the existence of a healthy dose of scepticism in the absence of evidence along with an avoidance of the “if’s”, “buts”, “could be/have”, “maybe’s”, and “possibliy’s” that tend to litter the narratives of those so desperate to believe something is so you can actually taste the fear and denial in the words.
It is a shame, therefore, that there exists an absence of consistency when it comes down to other issues, like for example non existent conversations with no hard evidence published by the UK version of the Chinese People’s Daily (The Daily Telegraph).
But keep trying. We know you will get there in the end. We have faith in you.
Can Trident be used against US wishes?
In 2006 Greenpeace told parliament the UK depends on US for maintenance, navigation and command structure.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmdfence/986/986we13.htm