Clockwork Orange (plot)

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Clockwork Orange was a secret

politicians from 1974 to 1975.[1] The black propaganda led Prime Minister Harold Wilson to fear that the security services were preparing a coup d'état.[2] The operation takes its name from A Clockwork Orange, a 1971 Stanley Kubrick film based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel of the same name
.

Project

The project was undertaken by members of the British

intelligence services and the British Army press office in Northern Ireland, whose job also included routine public relations work and placing disinformation stories in the press as part of a psychological warfare operation against the Provisional Irish Republican Army
.

One of the project's members,

communists or Irish republican sympathisers leading a campaign to destabilise Northern Ireland[3]
or were taking bribes.

After his resignation, Wilson claimed that he was the target of a planned military coup. He also denounced a campaign to smear him staged by members of MI5 in order to force his resignation.[4][5] According to journalist Barry Penrose, Wilson "spoke darkly of two military coups which he said had been planned to overthrow his government in the late 1960s and in the mid 1970s."[4]

In January 1974, the British Army carried out Operation Marmion, the occupation of London's Heathrow Airport on the grounds of training for possible violent non-state actor activity at the terminal,[6] without Wilson's foreknowledge.[7] The operation was repeated on three more occasions in June, July and September. These military deployments were perceived by many in the left as a practice run for a military takeover rather than an anti-terrorist exercise.[6]

Member of Parliament, was alleged to have been involved with Clockwork Orange, and to have briefed Wallace on a number of occasions.[8]

In the

Archie Hamilton, admitted the existence of a proposed project called Clockwork Orange, although he went on to say that the project was never approved for operation and that there was no evidence that the proposed project involved a smear campaign against politicians.[9]

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References

  1. ISBN 0415040671
  2. ISBN 1860647375
  3. ISBN 1843403811
  4. ^ a b Wheeler, Brian (9 March 2006). "Wilson 'plot': The secret tapes". BBC News.
  5. ISBN 1427641951
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-1584874898
    .
  7. ^ Freedland, Jonathan (15 March 2006). "Enough of this cover-up: the Wilson plot was our Watergate". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  8. ISBN 0900137312
  9. ^ Hansard, 30 January 1990, Column 108
  10. ^ Ebert, Roger. "Hidden Agenda movie review & film summary (1991) | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com/. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
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