Harold Wilson

This article is about the British politician. For the Olympic silver medallist, see Harold A. Wilson.

MI5 plot?

In 1963, Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn is said to have secretly claimed that Wilson was a KGB agent. The majority of intelligence officers did not believe that Golitsyn was a genuine defector but a significant number did (most prominently James Jesus Angleton, the Deputy Director of Counter-Intelligence at the CIA) and factional strife broke out between the two groups. The book Spycatcher (an exposé of MI5) alleged that 30 MI5 agents then collaborated in an attempt to undermine Wilson. The author Peter Wright (a former member of MI5) later claimed that his ghostwriter had written 30 when he had meant 3. Many of Wright's claims are controversial, and a ministerial statement has been made that an internal investigation failed to find any evidence to support the allegations. In March 1987, James Miller, a former MI5 agent, claimed that MI5 had encouraged the Ulster Worker's Council general strike in 1974 in order to destabilise Wilson's Government.

Related Topics:
1963 - Soviet - Defector - Anatoliy Golitsyn - KGB - James Jesus Angleton - Counter-Intelligence - CIA - Spycatcher - MI5 - Peter Wright - Ghostwriter - Ulster Worker's Council

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Main article: Harold Wilson conspiracy theories

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