STROBES' LITTLE ORGAN (Private Eye)

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Product:	Private Eye
Date:	08/01/02 (749 review reads)
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Thank goodness for Private Eye which helps to expose the corruption in our institutions.

It was a Special report from Private Eye - Lockerbie, The Flight from Justice- which pointed out the extent to which we may have a 'problem' with justice.

"Mr Jim Wilson, a (Lockerbie) farmer (found) his fields were littered with...debris. The mess included a suitcase, neatly packed with a powdery substance....A suitcase belonging to Major Charles McKee, a senior CIA agent....had been mysteriously carried away from the piles of wreckage...."

So, the CIA may have been involved with drugs?

In these days when one can no longer trust the mainstream media, it is essential to read Private Eye.

For example, when investigating anthrax, The BBC's Panorama and the Sunday Telegraph seem to simply accept the handouts from James Woolsey of the CIA; and James Woolsey, so it is alleged, is a very close ally of Israel.

Private Eye's greatest days were in the 1970's when they tried to find out whether or not the Prime Minister was a spy for Israel (or the KGB.)

Harold Wilson was President of the Board of Trade (a government minister) from 1947-51. The few people who could get permission from the Board of Trade to import heavily rationed raw materials or finished goods were in a good position to become vastly rich. Among the lucky few who got licenses were Montague Meyer, Joe Kagan and Rudy Sternberg. (Kagan and Sternberg) later became peers. Meyer gave Wilson a consultancy which took him on frequent trips to Moscow and Eastern Europe.

After the 'mysterious' death of Hugh Gaitskell, Wilson became Labour leader and eventually Prime Minister. Harold Wilson's 'private office' was funded in secret by a wealthy group which included Lord Goodman, Sir Samuel Fisher, and Rudy Sternberg.

In the 1970's, Private Eye began to receive information of a possible link betwee
n Wilson and the Israeli secret service and the KGB. Much of this information may have come from people within MI5.

In connection with alleged plots, the names of various people were handed to Private Eye. Labour MP Ian Mikardo had at one time partnered Leslie Paisner in a business that traded with East Germany. Mikardo's pair in the House of Commons was Barnaby Drayson who worked for Rudy Sternberg, as did Wilfred Owen MP who had resigned after being revealed as a spy for Czechoslovakia. Montague Meyer, it turned out, was the man who had bought up much of the timber felled in Tanganyika during Labour's ill-fated groundnut scheme. Then there was Labour MP Edward Short 'who had been in the habit of receiving bundles of banknotes from T Dan Smith', the city boss of Newcastle and one time partner of Eric Levine.

Kagan was a frequent visitor to Downing Street. He was also on friendly terms with the station chief of the Russian KGB. After being questioneded by the police about tax and currency offences he eventually 'fled' to Israel, where perhaps his real allegiance lay.

Sir Rudy Sternberg was also under investigation by the security services.

Private Eye, with its limited resources, found it difficult to investigate the large quantity of material coming its way.

But, what may have stopped Private Eye from finally getting at the truth was the intervention of the Jewish businessman James Goldsmith, a friend of PM Wilson's personal secretary, Marcia Williams. Marcia was also a friend of Kagan.

Private Eye had mistakenly claimed that Goldsmith had been present at a lunch given by John Aspinall, on the day after the disappearance of Lord Lucan. Goldsmith began criminal libel proceedings against Private Eye.

Patrick Marnham, in his brilliant book "Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan", writes that Goldsmith was "effectively silencing the only newspaper which migh
t have made headway with the ....allegations."

Goldsmith later became a lord. Sir Joseph Kagan was later imprisoned. Marcia Williams became Lady Falkender and her sister Peggy got an OBE. Wilson eventually resigned. Private Eye survived.

But the possible links between Labour and Israel's secret service may not have ended with Wilson. Private Eye began to take an interest in Robert Maxwell, the chief fund raiser for Labour. Maxwell received a peerage, mysteriously disappeared, and 'his body' was buried with great honour in Israel. It was assumed by many that he was a top Israeli spy.

And what of Tony Blair. Private Eye has pointed out that Blair's chief fund raiser is Lord Levy, a man with strong links to Israel. Blair's chief foreign policy adviser is Sir David Manning........

Private Eye is lots of things: cartoons, funny stories, clever satire, adverts, and more.

But, the most valuable service provided by this hardy little organ is that it exposes the lies told to us by the rich and powerful elites.

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