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Spies, Lies And The Coup

Randell Brnatley | 04.11.2010 01:22

State Repression In The 70s
The rise of militancy in the workplace, universities and the new left in the early 1970s Britain generated a reaction by the ‘secret state’.
A major campaign was launched by Special Branch and MI5 to infiltrate and destabilise these arenas, which culminated in a plot to overthrow Harold Wilson’s Labour government in the mid 1970s. Investigative researcher Larry O’Hara will give an overview of the period, looking at the tactics and strategies of the secret state.

Randell Brnatley
- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/697629