[Pobierz] [Epub ] The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the
Miners
By Seumas Milne
Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike ?the enemy
within.? With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became
clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the
government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power
of Britain?s miners? union. There was an enemy within. It was the secret services of
the British state, operating inside the NUM itself.Milne revealed for the first time the
astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were
prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain?s miners? union. Using phoney bank
deposits, staged cash drops, forged documents, agents provocateurs and unrelenting
surveillance, M15 and police Special Branch set out to discredit Scargill and other
miners? leaders. Planted tales of corruption were seized on by the media and both
Tory and Labour politicians in what became an unprecedentedly savage smear
campaign.In
