Rupert Murdoch and the rise of New Labour, British American Project, MI5 and the Murder of Hilda Murrell

MI5 were not involved in the efforts of the Situation Group of the Ronald Reagan White House (and supported by Rupert Murdoch) to engineer a right wing leadership succession in the Labour Party from 1983. Rather, the British American project (which many Stalinists and former Stalinists later joined) had its origins with blue chip Foreign Policy think tanks and hitherto CIA initiatives in the labour movement itself.

After the Belgrano was sunk to deliberately scupper peace talks over the Falklands (and ensure Thatcher's second term) MI5 may well have used its subcontractors e.g. to burgle the home of Hilda Murrell. I do not believe that MI5 ordered the murder of Murrell but I do believe that they covered the murder up and that Andrew George (if not framed outright) could not have carried out the 1984 murder alone.

Some years prior to this, Tony Blair may have spied on the Left at Oxford (for MI5) according to some theories, and MI5 were definitely involved in the smearing of John Stalker in 1987 - something else that Christopher Andrew omits to mention. While he admits to the dossiers kept on trade union and CND activists he declines to mention how Arthur Scargill was smeared by F-Branch during the miners strike or how the private subcontractors who spooked on anti-nuclear activists (like Sapphire Investigations, involved in the Murrell murder) also sent dossiers on anti-fascists to the National Front.