Since this is all about the waters above the Continental Shelf claimed by the United Kingdom, you should be aware of how this claim began in 1964, and continued to expand in scope. 'Radio Caroline' occupied waters in this area, and other resource laws were gradually harmonized to bring them all under the same sort of geographical policing powers of the United Kingdom.

Figuring out how we all got bushwhacked and trapped inside a new propaganda mill churning out a new interpretation of everything we thought we knew, but didn't, is quite a daunting undertaking, especially if you have limited funding and limited helpers! But that is us!

​We are not affiliated to any outside group; religious, political or social and therefore we have no "Master". We are free people and a good part of our own awakening to the meaning of the word "freedom" has come from living in the Lone Star State of Texas. In Texas you sink or swim, and although social awareness has begun to change due to migration into the State by individuals bringing outside ideas with them, change has been very slow indeed.

Some things are quite surprising about Texas. It is very protective of the right of individuals to believe in their own reason for being alive, and it became protective of children long before a lot socialized States and nations began showing an interest in that area of human existence. But it is also a place where adult individuals have had to look to themselves to get bailed out of trouble, because the government still sees its main role in protecting individuals from harm by outsiders, more than anything else. "Freedom" in Texas has meant the right to succeed and the right to fail at succeeding.

Now you know that, you know the history of Brown and Root which became a part of Halliburton. With the rugged individualism of fending off outsiders came the means to do so. Because Texas is one state in a union of states forming the nation called the United States of America; Texans have retained their ability to defend themselves and their interests against any form of unwanted interference by individuals; or groups of individuals, and any nation which dares to show aggression towards the USA.

Texas is also vast, so big that it could be split up into several smaller States, and the climate and geography of each one would offer something different to the others. This vastness of size containing enormous natural resources, also gave Texas the ability to become a huge food and energy resource for the nation.

Now we are talkin' money. Big money, and with big money comes big political clout which Halliburton and Brown and Root thrived upon.

Lyndon Baines Johnson was their 'boy' from the word 'go!'

LBJ did what his Masters told him to do, and because LBJ became President of the United States of America, well that kind of opened up its own can of worms, because Brown and Root were not the only Masters, and LBJ was not the only Servant, although he was figuratively the 'top dog'.

This is the culture that came to visit the Crown dominated United Kingdom. Uncouth by British standards? Of course. Powerful? Yes, but so was the British Crown which developed a highly visible geographical empire full of pomp and circumstance which then morphed into an invisible empire of financial wealth surrounded and protected by official secrecy.

So what has any of this to do with offshore broadcasting and especially 'Radio Caroline' in the Sixties?

Everything!

If you don't know who has been pulling the strings that open the memory banks of your mind, you have no idea of the validity of what has been placed in there. To find the answers you need investigators. We call ourselves 'YesterTecs'. Investigation of this kind is our own mandate for this Blog. We are pulling this strange story apart and we are shining our own light into the dark crevices to find the hidden pieces of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle whose completed picture is not the one that your perceived image has gleaned from the few pieces that you have seen so far.

Now as far as offshore broadcasting in the Sixties is concerned, and especially as it reflects anything to do with the creation of 'Radio Caroline', that story which was terminated in 1967 and limped into oblivion by the Spring of the following year, remained unchanged until 1990, and that is when the mischief really began. That is what we will be revealing in this ongoing story which will appear in book format as 'Dial 999 for Caroline'.

GIANT was a 1956 movie, and if you watch the entire film (which you can still rent or purchase), you will get an idea of where those Texans came from: the ones who planted their stake into the continental shelf of the North Sea. It will also give you an idea of how big this research project of ours is, and you get to know what is taking us so long to accomplish this job.

Below is just a brief clip.

Remember,  we are not dancing to anyone else's tune, just our own!

Everyone knew what was probably under the North Sea, and they had known it since at least the middle of World War II, and possibly much earlier. But there was just one big problem standing in the way of a beginning rush to riches from that gigantic pool of untapped energy:

That problem concerned a lack of technological knowledge which revealed how to access and retrieve that 'black gold' beneath the continental shelf and submerged by the waters of the North Sea. But all that was about to change, and soon the rush would begin to find and then retrieve those resources!

​This concept of teen television even had its own mega star named Jack Good. It was his talent that promoted the sound of youth. He took his programing ideas from BBC to ITA, and then across the Atlantic to ABC-TV in the United States of America.

The reason why the so-called history of 'pirate radio' broadcasting (as written and published to date) does not make sense, is because it is a corruption of real events as they happened.

It is interesting that the 'Jimmy Ross' magical diversion did not really begin until Ian Cowper Ross reappeared on the scene in 1990, and it began with his book of nonsense called 'Rocking the Boat'. Yes, his father C. E. Ross had been previously referred to, but only in a vague sort of way where it could be interpreted as being the father of Ian Cowper Ross, and that is all.

In previous editions of this Blog we have told you who 'Mister Ross' of Reynards Wood is. He was a salesman for Jensen Cars of Birmingham. But Mister Ross, the father of Ian Cowper Ross was never referred to as 'Jimmy', and why would he be? If anything, Charles Edward Ross would be called 'Charlie', but never 'Jimmy'.

The mythical 'Jimmy Ross' is the product of Ian Cowper Ross' imagination in order to divert attention away from the real Jimmy in this story. He is the man who is never discussed in these books by idiots for idiots. "Jimmy Ross" never existed, but Jimmy Deterding did, and he is the key to understanding this entire story! We will have a lot more to say about Jimmy Deterding in future editions of this Blog.

Even the 1983 book written by Richard Nichols about 'Radio Luxembourg' downplays a major part of the pre-pirate radio story about popular music heard in Britain. That is because it downplays the advent of Alan Freed on '208' with his transcribed programs recorded in New York City.

Freed was the real pioneer of rock 'n' roll in the United Kingdom, even though he was only heard during 1956 on UK radio receivers. That is when his shows were aired on Saturday nights over 'Radio Luxembourg'. But Freed's real impact came from a long string of rock 'n' roll motion pictures that featured many cameos by the biggest stars of the day, and they were seen on cinema screens throughout the United Kingdom.

What this bevy of balderdash books about 'pirate radio' have in common, is the idea that there were two rival offshore radio stations: 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline'. Readers have been told that these two were engaged in a media war, which 'Radio Atlanta' lost, leaving 'Radio Caroline' as the lone survivor to gobble-up its poor competitor.

To make that idea work there had to be two rival groups backing these two rival stations, and to promote them there would have to be two rival radio station companies. But there was only one.

While details of every offshore radio station that broadcast to Britain in the Sixties is known and documented, it is peculiar that 'Radio Caroline' remains an enigma. In order to fill in the blank spots, Ronan O'Rahilly was hired as an Irishman with enough blarney to instantly recite all manner of stories which British journalists  lapped-up, and turned into sensational news stories for their readers. But the fact is that Ronan O'Rahilly was a fraud. O'Rahilly spouted nonsense and to help him he was assisted by Ian Cowper Ross.

If this surge of fake 'Jimmy' stories did not begin until long after 'Radio Caroline' had been dead and buried under the 1967 Marine Offences Act, why did it suddenly get revived in 1990? True, others had come along at various times and called a number of stations broadcasting from boats by the name of 'Radio Caroline', just as there are stations doing the same thing today but from land bases. Only none of them are the real 'Radio Caroline' because it is long gone.

Either the perpetrator of these 'Jimmy' tales had his own reason for promoting his fictitious story, or something else was resurfacing from the Sixties that needed to be reburied. Evidence points to the first scenario, but it also served the purpose of totally burying the original story about who really created 'Radio Caroline', and why it was created.

There are a lot of wild conspiracy stories floating around today, which leads some to brand anything that attempts to connect one person or event, to another person or event, as a conspiracy, and therefore the work of loony-tunes.

No, we don't agree with 'political correctness', only truth and accuracy in reporting!

The reason why we brand some as loony-tunes is because they try to link A to D or 1 to 5 while bypassing the missing letters or numbers. These are indeed the promoters of crazy conspiracy theories.

Yet the Government of the United States of America regularly prosecutes people for engaging in conspiratorial activities, and although the Government of the United Kingdom does the same thing, it buries use of that word under the heading of "Inchoate offences". See:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/inchoate-offences#:~:text=A%20conspiracy%20may%20involve%20the,the%20Criminal%20Law%20Act%201977

The UK definition of conspiracy (see citation above), is: ".... an agreement where two or more people agree to carry their criminal scheme into effect, the very agreement is the criminal act itself." 

It may come as a surprise to some who think that the word 'conspiracy' belongs to the world of 'extremist groups', and whatever that catch-all expression really means is unclear. But the British definition is not unclear at all. In fact, it may come as a shock to some when they learn that in the UK, its:

".... Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutes criminal cases that have been investigated by the police and other investigative organisations in England and Wales. The CPS is independent, and we make our decisions independently of the police and government."

The CPS 'boss' is that mysterious entity known as the British Crown - which by legal definition is the corporation sole that dominates all activities under its jurisdiction. Because there is no written constitution under the jurisdiction of the British Crown, it itself forms a part of that mysterious composition often referred to as a so-called "unwritten constitution". But it is not unwritten, because it is made-up of texts derived from its legislature, which as time progresses, is composed of more-and-more edicts - including those that appear on the site listed above:

"Nothing need be done in pursuit of the agreement."

"Repentance, lack of opportunity and failure are all immaterial."

"It is the course of conduct agreed upon which is critical; if that course involves some act by an innocent party, the fact that he does not perform it and thus prevents the commission of the substantive offence, does not absolve the parties to the agreement from liability."

"The agreement cannot be a mere mental operation; it must involve spoken or written words or other overt acts. If the defendant repents and withdraws immediately after the agreement has been concluded, they are still guilty of the offence. Withdrawal from it goes to mitigation only."

"There must be an agreement to commit the criminal offence, but the motives of the conspirators are irrelevant."

This is basically what we are using as our own definition of the word 'conspiracy', however, the fact that the British Crown has been, and still is guilty by its own definition of conspiracy to commit "crimes against humanity", gets shuffled under the carpets of Whitehall and other UK government offices. They believe in: "don't do as we do, do as we say!"

This becomes very confusing to the average person.

If the loony-tunes have their definitions of 'conspiracy', and they do, so do the people in power who are supposed to be representing 'The People' as individual human beings who have individually been born born the same way, and who will all die individually. Please see our definition at:
http://foundthreads.com/

Leaving aside the hypocrisy of governments which apply rules unfairly, we do not engage in the kind of storytelling that Paul Alexander Rusling has engaged in. He is engaging in a form of guilt by association - where the association does not exist to begin with, and therefore there is no guilt! Nothing could be clearer and more well-defined in the fraud perpetrated by Paul Alexander Rusling than his perpetuation of the myth concerning a 'Jimmy Ross' - who in reality - never existed!

But without the lie about 'Jimmy Ross', Paul Alexander Rusling is revealed as a bag of wind who is holding out his hands begging for money from gullible anoraks.

Paul Alexander Rusling has engaged in a conspiracy to defraud, because he has performed his act (according to his own published words), with the assistance and for the benefit of a licensed UK station that is calling itself 'Radio Caroline', and pretending to be a continuation of a station that first came on the air in March 1964.

That is why this investigation is different and why what you read here is the truth to the best of our knowledge. If we are proved to be in error we will immediately admit our error and make corrections where necessary.

We do not charge our readers for this service which we offer in the public interest.

Although we have compared our investigation to a pebble dropped into a still pool of water, it is also similar to a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. In fact, we have not revealed as yet, some of the major pieces of the jigsaw picture that we have already uncovered.

Since this investigation is ongoing, some have taken chunks of the puzzle we have revealed and tried to put them together by filling in the blanks with either old myths or fake stories, and this is what people like Brian Lister and then Paul Rusling have done by self-publishing their vanity books complete with bogus information. This is unfortunate, because the very people who should be most interested in seeing the true story published, are in fact some of the worst when it comes to intellectual thievery for their own personal benefit.

Some ask, why pick on people like Paul Rusling, since he only published a book for fans of 'Radio Caroline'? But that is not what he did at all. He published a vanity book for his own personal gain and used the fans of 'Radio Caroline' as his targeted victims to pay him money. They became his piggy-bank.

Therefore the fans who keep on being told by these vanity publishers that their new book is the 'true' story or the 'real' story, are never the wiser, only financially the poorer. Then along came some academics who picked-up false threads and then embellished them for release as educational tools. The  BBC has also made matters worse by peddling this same material to their viewers and listeners and readers. Wikipedia in this regard is just downright dreadful.

What has appeared on this Blog to date are huge chucks of the puzzle which have resulted from our own privately funded and genuine investigation which you have been allowed to read - free of charge. But, as we also wrote earlier in today's Blog, this is not all of the picture, because some parts that we know, we have not been posting on line as part of this Blog (although we may have posted them elsewhere, and all are copyrighted.)

Today's Blog is a caveat, a warning to anyone attempting to assemble what they have learned here, and attempting to place it into yet another vanity publication: you will be exposed as fraudsters if you do. We also advise anyone who has purchased a vanity book that promises to tell the 'real' story of 'Radio Caroline' to ask for a refund: You were sold goods under false pretenses and what you have is neither the 'real' nor the 'true' story of 'Radio Caroline'! 

Today we will continue to expound upon the texts we began to review yesterday, because they contain proof that 'The Radio Caroline bible' was compiled by someone who had no idea of what the real story was and is behind the 1964 birth of 'Radio Caroline'. By publishing his expropriated texts, Paul Rusling walked into our trap where he laid bare his theft, but because he did not know the rest of the story, he sold his gullible readers a total contradiction!

Here's the proof:

First of all let us go all the way back to March 2014 when we began a new phase of our ongoing research. In that February we wrote a Precursory Timeline for the Pirate Radio Hall of Fame - which was published the following month. At that time we had full intention of finishing a book about the origins of offshore radio, and then publishing it the following year! That was almost 7 years ago! This is where we first introduced the person of Frank Maher to offshore radio readers.

We do not know of any other source mentioning the person of Frank Maher in this context, other than The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. But notice what Paul Rusling did with this information: He claims that "Frank Maher remembers .... that there was considerable official interest shown in the vessel after reports in local Galveston newspapers.​"

But the original item above in the PRHoF does not say that Frank Maher remembers anything at all. In fact, there was one newspaper in Galveston, and there was another in Houston which did become interested enough to write a feature that suggested a possible CIA past involvement. But it was our own research which resulted in contact with a Texas web site that specialized in the history of Houston station KILT, where someone recalled that it was Frank Maher who supervised the loading of equipment back on to the mv Mi Amigo. Maher worked under the management of Bill Weaver who was ultimately responsible for everything to do with that ship.

This reveals how little Paul Rusling knows about the entire subject regarding the ship Mi Amigo prior to 1964, but this ship is directly tied to the subject matter of Bill Weaver's book 'Triple Double Cross'. The Mi Amigo is also tied to the history of the radio ship mv Olga Patricia, because both of them are connected to the secret activities of U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. He is the person who requested use of the ship Mi Amigo. His request went down the line to the Texas trio who owned it, and they in turn told Bill Weaver to bring it to Texas. But there was a problem.

The Cuban Missile Crisis and resulting embargo by the U.S. Navy beginning in the latter part of 1962 made it impossible to bring the Mi Amigo across the Atlantic at that time. Once the sea lanes were cleared Bill Weaver brought the ship over. That was its first trans-Atlantic crossing.

But the history of the Mi Amigo was being clouded back in 1964 when the second official 'Radio Caroline' booklet was published. According to its text (shown left), that ship made 4 trans-Atlantic crossings in 1963, but that would have been impossible since it was obtained in Europe and stayed in Europe until it was taken to Galveston where it arrived in March 1963, and that is where it remained until the last few days of December that year. Then it returned to Europe. That is a total of 2 trans-Atlantic crossings.

Although we began an academic series of articles in 2000, it was not until 2014 that we began to dig deeper, and after encountering the mystery of the book called 'Radio Man', we began to dig deeper still. It was then that we not only uncovered a hidden history, but we also ran into resistance from many who were merrily publishing vanity books about themselves and offshore radio.

These vanity publishers were repeating nonsense; lies; distortions and involuntarily assisting in a major cover-up of the real story. That is what we are now revealing bit-by-bit in this Blog, with the full intention of ultimately producing the promised volume, with or without help from other people.

It was in seeking assistance from others that we made contact with Paul Rusling (among many), but Rusling it turned out, only wanted to help himself and produce yet another worthless vanity book, to make money for himself. That is how he was able to steal our research and then twist it to create a book of contradictions, distortions and absolute fabrications!

Here is the trap that Rusling walked into:

Rusling failed to see what he had done by publishing the line about "two new units from the same manufacturer" being loaded on board the mv Mi Amigo in December 1963. He did not take time to ask what were these 2 new units for, or who loaded them on board the Mi Amigo for their voyage across the Atlantic Ocean? The only explanation for him to even know about Sun Cay, is because we told him! But even then, Rusling does not say that these 2 new transmitters were unloaded at Sun Cay, or offer any other explanation regarding their ultimate destination: In his texts these 2 new transmitters just vanish from view.

We know that when the mv Mi Amigo reached El Ferrol after almost sinking in the Atlantic Ocean, no move was made to retrieve the "2 new units". Why? Because they were no longer on board!

So what happened to them?

For this we need a quick lesson in geography with the help of some graphics:

This scenario causes a severe problem for Paul Rusling!

There are some questions that remain unanswered about the actual voyage of the Mi Amigo during the Winter of 1964, because some texts do not chart a direct course to El Ferrol from Sun Cay. In fact, those same texts do not even mention Sun Cay, or  its ties to Clint Murchison.  We learned long ago that the Mi Amigo left Galveston for the Bahamas, and not for Europe, but at the time we did not know where in the Bahamas it was headed.

The texts about the voyage of the Mi Amigo are somewhat ambiguous, because they chart a course across the Atlantic towards the coastline of Africa, and then turning in a northerly direction towards Spain. Because the ship apparently suffered damage and almost sank during that crossing, we have speculated that it might have put into port at an island for emergency repairs. It did arrive at El Ferrol, Spain later than originally expected. That information is supported by other texts.

Knowing that the voyage across the Atlantic would be dangerous for the Mi Amigo during Winter storms, it would have made sense to only have carried a cargo lashed to its top deck for as short a distance as possible after leaving Galveston. It then passed though the relatively shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and then into the Caribbean Sea, before unloading its cargo at Sun Cay. The question then arises as to what happened to the 2 transmitters after they were unloaded at Sun Cay?

We know that Wijsmuller had control of the mv Fredericia which they had taken to Rotterdam, and where it stayed for about as long as it would later remain at Greenore, Ireland. We also know that Wijsmuller had a history of involvement with the offshore natural gas and oil industry in Texas and Venezuela, and so it would make sense if Wijsmuller had one of its ships standing by at Sun Cay ready to receive the 2 new transmitters - which they would then take to Rotterdam for installation on board the mv Fredericia. The Wijsmuller ships were designed to meet the worst of weather conditions, but the little Mi Amigo had originally been designed for much calmer and protected waters.

All of this is a hypothesis for which we have no documentation. But neither does Paul Rusling when he claims that 2 new transmitters were loaded on board the Mi Amigo at Galveston. He got his information from us. However, what we have explained to you in detail as being a working hypothesis, Paul Rusling has stated as fact, and for him, that creates a total contradiction in his own fake story about the history of 'Radio Caroline'!

Here is the conundrum that Paul Rusling has created for himself. It is a trap into which he walked not realizing that he was about to box himself into a situation from which his lack of credibility would be exposed for all to read! The problem for Rusling is that he has clung on to the fraudulent story about 'Jimmy' who he relates to the father of Ian Cowper Ross. The only reason for that fake story is to try to convince everyone that 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline' were two separate and independent projects, when in fact they were two parts of the same project run by the same company: Project Atlanta Limited.

Here is the unanswered question that Paul Rusling created for himself: If 2 new transmitters were loaded on to the Mi Amigo as cargo during the closing days of 1963, who ordered and who paid for that cargo? Remember, the only appearance of any entity tied specifically to 'Radio Caroline' was not even registered until late February 1964, in Ireland, and that was Planet Productions Limited. But we are referring to an event that took place in December 1963!

The 2 new transmitters could not have been loaded as cargo on board the Mi Amigo without permission, so who gave that permission? The Mi Amigo was under charter to an entity with a contract to Project Atlanta Limited. So this was no 'secret cargo', and if it was not a secret, then why pretend that 'Atlanta' and 'Caroline' were two separate and rival ventures?

Why indeed?

What was the reason for bringing in a kid like Ian Cowper Ross, or for that matter a club DJ named Chris Moore? Ronan O'Rahilly was a different matter. He was the link to his father and the derelict Port at Greenore which came into play because of the last minute diversion from the Isle of Wight. That original location made more sense because the company that was commissioned to rig the antennas was located there, and its facility on the Isle of Wight was not far from Rotterdam where the 'Fredericia' was tied up at dockside.

However, at that time there were many people attached to the UK government keeping tabs on both Weaver and his ship called Mi Amigo. But it seems that at this stage they were unaware of the 'Fredericia' and its ties to Weaver's business associates. This is why Ronan O'Rahilly became a useful 'decoy duck', and why Ian Cowper Ross was hired to assist him with scripts in order to create a diversion away from the real story: "Don't look there - look over here"!

There were two parts to this one venture and both of them had only one operating company: Project Atlanta Limited. Rusling can't have it both ways.  He tries to cling on to the latter-day myth about 'Jimmy Ross' so that he could claim that there were two rival operations going on, and one of them was a secret. But clearly there never was a rivalry between the 'Radio Caroline' operation and the 'Radio Atlanta' operation. That is not to say that a lot of people were not being misled about what was really going on! They were, and to a limited extent this included Allan James Crawford.

Crawford became a pawn in a much larger game, but Crawford eventually learned some of the truth the hard way, and that was when the big movers and shakers moved on to his board of directors controlling Project Atlanta Limited! When that company was registered in August 1963, it had only a couple of people on its board, and it is true, Crawford had begun scrounging around for investors.

Then a blue-ribbon; gold-star bevy of people were added to that same board, including Jimmy Deterding, grandson of the founder of the Shell Oil conglomerate! These people were heavy-hitters in for big money. They were not in some game to make a few coins from spinning cover-records at sea benefiting an independent series of record labels controlled by Allan James Crawford!

Unless Crawford was totally thick, he had to know what was going on. The one person who did not get the 'plot', was Oliver Smedley. He seems to have been kept in the dark, and that led to him making some terrible decisions that led to the death of Reg Calvert.

Rusling pretends that while the 'Radio Atlanta' operation was managed by professionals, the 'Radio Caroline' operation was run by kids with pocketful's of cash! That is what Rusling wrote, because that is what Ian Cowper Ross had written in his absurd book called 'Rocking the Boat'.

That scenario is plainly ridiculous and it is not supported by any facts in evidence, and by incorporating our hypothesis about those 2 new Continental Electronics transmitters, Paul Alexander Rusling has, in effect, jammed himself up against the wall marked 'contradictions'!

There was only one project company, and that company was Project Atlanta Limited.

More tomorrow.

[This text was expanded in scope and details on 2/24/2021. Please let us know if you spot typographical errors and we will correct them as soon as they are brought to our attention.]

We begin by returning to Rusling's page 56, because that is where he ultimately shoots himself in the foot! How? By claiming that when the mv Mi Amigo left Galveston Island during the closing hours of 1963, the ship had two refurbished Continental Electronics transmitters on board, plus two new units from the same manufacturer!

By making that claim, Paul Rusling acknowledged the source of his new information:

We are his source!

This information began with us, and it originated as a result of an analysis of known facts, and a very controversial working hypothesis. There is no hard evidence that we know of at this moment to support our claim that the Mi Amigo carried 4 transmitters on board when it left Galveston Island: two used and two new.

The evidence is circumstantial. But remember, in many cases brought to trial the evidence is circumstantial. Seldom is someone "caught in the act" by the police who can swear by first-hand testimony that their evidence is 100% true. Usually someone swears to "the best of their knowledge" that something is true. That is where we are with this information. It offers the most likely explanation, and that was and still is our hypothesis, which is the same one that Rusling claimed as his own work. That is another dishonest claim made by Paul Alexander Rusling.

We began working backwards from what we knew for a fact from other reliable and proven sources. This resulted in a lot of email correspondence with many people in which we floated our hypothesis (no one had ever suggested it before we did), that there was a problem with the accepted storyline about the outfitting of the mv Fredericia which became the mv Caroline.

For instance, we knew that when the Fredericia arrived at Greenore, it was already equipped with two new Continental Electronics transmitters, and a generator to power them. We also knew that this ship spent as long in Rotterdam with Wijsmuller, as it did after it arrived at Greenore. We knew the dates and therefore the timelines involved.

We also knew that the Mi Amigo left Galveston Island for the Bahamas, and we were given this information while in Houston back in the 1970s. Only much later did we discover where in the Bahamas the ship went to before crossing the Atlantic for Spain.

The question in our minds was: How did two new Continental Electronics transmitters made in Dallas, Texas, get on board the mv Fredericia at Rotterdam, Holland? We also wanted to know how the two refurbished Continental Electronics transmitters got on board the Mi Amigo at Galveston. There was a timeline problem.

We had access to the Continental Electronics factory worksheet, and we knew that on December 11, 1963 the original transmitters were still at the factory in Dallas, and we knew that they were reinstalled on the Mi Amigo together with a new generator on December 21, 1963, and that the ship left the Port of Galveston on December 29, 1963. We also knew that after it arrived in Galveston during March 1963, it was stripped of all broadcasting equipment and some of it was recycled for use by other McLendon stations. So some of the equipment put back on board the Mi Amigo was new, and not the same as the equipment that had been taken off the ship.

We knew who supervised the work of unloading and reloading this equipment, because we knew that Bill Weaver of KILT in Houston was ultimately responsible for the entire project. So we made a lot of enquiries and came up with the name of Frank Maher. This part is not a secret because we wrote about that for the 'Pirate Radio Hall of Fame' long ago, and due to new information, we need to update it. (Click the link.)

When we tracked the Mi Amigo's journey to Europe, we did so through a variety of means and sources, including the destination to which the Mi Amigo was first headed, after leaving Galveston. We also knew the limited ability of the Mi Amigo to carry excess bulky cargo, as well as the sea weather conditions for December into January. It all left very little in the way of options for delivering two new transmitters to Rotterdam for installation on board the Fredericia. In the end we narrowed it down to one option only.

The waters of the Gulf of Mexico which surround Galveston Island, and which flow into the Caribbean Sea connecting to the Bahamian archipelago, offer a little more protection than the violent waves encountered from then onwards across the Atlantic Ocean on a voyage to Europe. But even so, this was no joy ride, and it has been widely reported that when the Mi Amigo did enter the Atlantic Ocean, it "almost sank" due to  Winter storms.

So we reasoned, if we were faced with this problem, what would we do? The answer seemed to be reinstalling the two refurbished transmitters on the Mi Amigo in their original locations, and then, before the factory released the two new transmitters, stripping anything fragile from their cabinets, and then delicately sealing and packing those parts for storage below the top deck. Carefully wrapped and sealed to protect against water damage, the two cabinets could be temporarily stored on the upper deck for the journey from Galveston to the Bahamas.

This seems to be the only logical answer to this situation given all of the other limitations on alternative explanations. Our scenario is that at Sun Cay in the Bahamas which was owned by Clint Murchison, he had an airstrip; a house and he also had a dock. So the Mi Amigo arrived at Sun Cay and transferred its top deck cargo with its stored parts below deck, onto a waiting Wijsmuller vessel. That ship then went on to Rotterdam, where another transfer was made to the Fredericia. The Mi Amigo went on to El Ferrol in Spain.

So that is what we came up with, and in general terms, that is also what Paul Alexander Rusling has in fact reprinted in his 'bible'. But for him, this acceptance of our hypothesis creates a major problem which he then tries to skip over. In doing so he hopes that his readers do not notice the anomaly in his own storyline.

Rusling wants to maintain the myth that 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline' were rival projects by rival backers, when in fact they were part of one project financed by the same people. But how could Rusling tell readers on the one hand that the 'Radio Caroline' transmitters had been carried on board the Mi Amigo, before either ship ever docked at Greenore, or for that matter, before anyone ever admitted to the existence of the 'Radio Caroline' project? If you carefully read all of the accounts given by Allan James Crawford about what he knew beforehand about the 'Radio Caroline' project, you will discover that it has been difficult to pin him down due to variations by him in responding to questions about his version of the story.

But of course Allan James Crawford was not running the show and neither was Jocelyn Stevens. As for Ronan O'Rahilly, he was a mere 'decoy duck': a 'useful fool' employed to serve the project by misleading the UK government; the press and the public. Behind it all was an impressive blue-ribbon panel of directors. Oliver Smedley was not in their league at all. He was another bit player added for decoration, who later on would go rogue and cause his own kind of havoc by killing Reg Calvert. Kitty Black is another person who had a lot to hide, because in this venture, no one was telling the truth, and everyone was operating with limited knowledge under a military-style "need-to-know".

We will have a lot more to say about the true financial structure later on, including a video about 'Mister Big', who Jocelyn Stevens claimed did not exist! But it was because of the lies and misdirection that the mythology about a "Jimmy", was born. However, until recently we did not know who "Mister Big" was, and so Paul Alexander Rusling could not steal from us what we ourselves did not know at the time of his theft!

But now we do. So we can now explain why Paul Rusling not only stole intellectual property from us, but why he stole from every single buyer of his fake 'bible' in order to prop-up another myth that the original 'Radio Caroline' which began in 1964, continues on the airwaves today.

It does not.

It was killed-off by UK government legislation on August 14, 1967.

What is on the UK licensed airwaves today, is a totally new and unrelated venture called 'Radio Caroline'. It began in recent times with an auto mechanic who uses a fake personal identity and operates in the London area. He is the end-user beneficiary of the mythological tales which have been woven together in a so-called 'bible' sold by Paul Alexander Rusling.

But the people who paid money to support this fake story believing it to be true, are the real victims. We have recently been asked by a reader of this Blog why do we care what Rusling has written? The answer is very basic:

We take pride in telling the truth regarding this investigation which we have financed at cost to ourselves. Therefore we are also attempting to undo and negate some of the intellectual damage that Paul Alexander Rusling has caused by taking our paid-for research and then twisting it to support what amounts to a confidence trick on listeners today. That is why we care.

Our investigation continues here ....

In tomorrow's Blog, because the text in this montage of pages is too small to read comfortably, we will also add enlargements at appropriate moments, along with notes explaining the reason for our numbered references.

Turning to Rusling's page 55 we come to a number of topics all related to John F. Kennedy. We have previously commented on them in past editions of this Blog, and we noted that although JFK visited Ireland, O'Rahilly offers no comment about meeting him in person. But, according to Rusling and other hack writers, O'Rahilly draped his own life around JFK's ghost, which is a latter-day lie O'Rahilly loved to promote, and now Rusling repeats for pay in a vanity publication.

Beginning with the 'Kennedy Controversy', Paul Rusling admits that what he learned from us is that Ronan O'Rahilly lied. In doing so he also contradicts 'Wikipedia' which does not allow for "original research", and so it repeats rubbish already disproved - by us!

Fifty years after our first article appeared in the same newspaper (see 4), we exposed the entire O'Rahilly fraud about the origins of the name 'Caroline' for a radio station. We acknowledged (see 2), that this story had been revealed in a book, years before we published it. That book led us to connections with the New York Mafia (Cosa Nostra) and the record promotion side of the 'Radio Caroline' broadcast playlist business called 'payola' in the USA.

This American scandal involved the same person who was behind-the-scenes of activities that led to the downfall of the original 'rock and roll' disc jockey, Alan Freed. His reach extended to the United Kingdom via 'Radio Luxembourg' in 1956, as well as a string of movies featuring cameo performances by the original big names in rock 'n' roll. Freed's 'master', was a Jew, and therefore not eligible for membership in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. Consequently he ran his own operation in a form of parallel partnership with the Italians.

Now when it comes to the JFK assassination (see 1), and the book by Charles W (Bill) Weaver, which Rusling has not read, he has a big problem because this is another instance where he has lifted our research and claimed it as his own. However, at the time when he absconded with our work, we were still investigating Weaver's book.

We spent a lot of time researching the history of the mv Mi Amigo when it was at Galveston, Texas. During the course of our investigation, we personally met Bill Weaver after he had momentarily left broadcasting and begun an import business on the Texas border with Mexico. That is when we received his card (shown left).

We discovered that Bill Weaver had spent years working for Gordon McLendon in the capacity of being his manager of all of his radio projects, as well as station manager for McLendon's KILT in Houston, Texas. Therefore when it came time to pull the plug on 'Radio Nord' which was on board the 'Mi Amigo', and at that time known as 'Bon Jour', the order came down the line to Weaver and he was told to go to Sweden and take care of shutting down the station. He was also told to get rid of Jack Kotschak, who the Texan owners had come to distrust for many reasons.

As you can read in the letter shown to the right, the UK Crown was keeping tabs on the activities of Bill Weaver. when he came to London, England. This letter is just one example. The Crown knew when he was born; his passport number, and the name of the hotel he was staying at while the Magda Maria (ex-Bon Jour and pre-Mi Amigo), was anchored off Brightlingsea in October 1962.

Now according to Weaver's published book, its text indicates that his manuscript was finished by someone who had no real knowledge of offshore broadcasting. The book begins in a roman à clef manner where, although names have been changed, it is possible to figure out some of the identities of the real people who are being referred to.

But this book created another mystery for us, and in some ways it is similar to the one created by what seemed to be the contradictory text in the Pye book called 'Radio Man'. But then something happened to change everything.

We were contacted by Bill Weaver's daughter, and following several lengthy conversations with his daughter and her mother, we learned that indeed someone else did finish writing Bill's book. He had been confined to a hospital bed for the last days of his life, and that is where he died of cancer. However, last year, before the worldwide pandemic caused nation after nation to lock down its borders, mother, daughter and her husband had planned to be in Europe this year. They told us that they would be bringing Bill's original manuscripts with them and giving them to us to help in our research.

Well, of course there was no visit. But what did happen is that Bill's daughter found a box containing an even earlier version of his manuscript than the one she had already discovered and was planning to bring with her to Europe. So due to the pandemic she decided instead to scan everything and send it to us immediately as pdf files.

Not only did these earlier manuscripts support his allegations of CIA connectivity, but it shone a new light on the entire matter of both the purpose of the radio ship, and its mission. More than this, Bill Weaver's daughter also sent us a list of the character 'keys' which identified most of the people mentioned by their real names. Since this book deals with the Kennedy Assassination, these keys to identifying real people is enough to make readers wonder whether Bill Weaver left the telling of his story to the end of his natural life on purpose. When his book was published, it underwent a strange sequence of events which resulted in very few of them getting into general circulation.

However, because there were masked allegations that 'Radio Nord' was really a CIA spy ship, there were people on our end who dismissed that suggestion out of hand, because of the way in which the spying was alleged to have been carried out. One of the people we shared our research with was one of the original 'Radio Caroline' broadcast engineers who had previously worked at Marconi. He had been tempted to write his own book, but after he went to work for the UK Foreign Office and later the BBC, he was told that he had to sign the Official Secrets Act, and he did. Then Crown officials forbade him from publishing his own manuscript!

After reading the Weaver book, this person then went on a rant that its CIA proposition was ridiculous for technical reasons, while at the same time he was a great believer in the story that the ship used by 'Radio Northsea International', had been a Stasi spy ship run for the benefit of East Germany. Others who had worked on that same ship denounced that story which originated with journalist Paul Harris. He has emerged as yet another person who engaged in publishing a lot of totally false information about the offshore stations. One of his books purports to be the English translation of the Swedish book about 'Radio Nord'. We have learned that it is in fact a redacted work in which the text is not a literal translation.

Since all of this has taken place, we have now come into possession of a manual published in the 1950s which puts a twist on this story that no one else has considered before. It also shines a light upon a cameo comment made back in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly during a television program. O'Rahilly laughed off a related story and it is highly unlikely that O'Rahilly knew anything more than what he said, and which was in itself both unbelievable and ridiculous.

However, O'Rahilly did not know the details of what we now know and have assembled, which relates to both the advent of the Polaris submarines at Holy Loch, and the involvement of the Dallas-based LTV subsidiary company called Continental Electronics. At the beginning of the 1960s that company was engaged in a secret military project in northeast England which was tied to the U.S. nuclear submarines which were just over the English border in the waters of Scotland.

What sounds ridiculous in the first version, takes on an entirely different meaning in the second version. But when the dismissive comments of O'Rahilly are coupled to the British electronics manual that we have only recently obtained from a company with WWII interests in radar and sonar equipment, then that story turns from laughter to frowns of concern. Now add to that information, this bit of knowledge:

When the mv 'Mi Amigo' left Galveston Island during the closing hours of 1963, on board was an electronics engineer who had previously worked for both Gordon McLendon and a U.S. company making specialist electronics equipment designed for the intelligence services. When this information is coupled to the British manual referred to earlier, then the entire matter can be seen in a totally different light. It is no longer a story to be dismissed out of hand in the way that Paul Rusling has done in his book! (See 3 above.)

Frowns of concern turn to a host of questions.

Our revelations continue tomorrow.

(Editorial text revisions may be carried out following the first publication of today's Blog. If you notice typos, etc., please let us know.)

We discovered that Ian Cowper Ross was not alone in obscuring the background of 'Mister Big', because it was Jocelyn Stevens who told television viewers that he did not exist. We not only know that he did exist, but we also know why 'Mister Big' got involved.

It took us longer than we thought to put this basic information together, and we  now are in the process of compiling it into a short video - which we hope to have completed by Monday and on line, for you to see.

By the way, if you spot typos please let us know and we will correct them. One error we had to take care of was a domain redirection to this site, and that has now been taken care of. In this instance it was a variation on other domain names that we have registered and for some reason it had not been previously redirected. Thank you to the reader who brought this to our attention.

In the meantime, here is a short video made to entertain (more than inform), in which we promote what we do best ....

Update: Monday, more about 'Mister Big' in a short video ....

Paul Rusling did not invent the lies, he merely promoted them as part of his own vanity publication for personal profit.

Rusling's later sources in his 'bible' are many, but it is the first part of his book that we are primarily concerned with, although he also took and used other material from us without our permission. However the first part of his 'bible' is derived from source material that we were examining, and then sharing with him, and several other people, via our 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter.

The trouble began when Paul Rusling tried to use our research to support his own agenda relating to Malcolm Smith's new project. That involves a rusting hulk and a tiny licensed radio station operating in a corner of southeast England which had been given the name of 'Radio Caroline'.

Rusling conceived of an idea to link all uses of the name 'Radio Caroline' from 1964 onwards to a single fictitious thread, and thereby gain thousands of Pounds worth of free media coverage that would parrot the fake idea that 'Caroline continues'. All of this to aid Malcolm Smith's radio project.

In reality, 'Radio Caroline' was given the death sentence on August 14, 1967, and as a result, after a new law came into effect on that date, 'Radio Caroline' was given a death sentence, and what was left of 'Radio Caroline' finally uttered its last gasp in March of the following year. But for all intents and purposes, by then it was already dead as a viable project.

Much of Rusling's source material for the first part of his audaciously titled 'bible' resulted from our own research, and as yet (at that time), unresolved questions which had arisen about the book 'Radio Man'. It took us a long time to find those answers, but we did find them, although Rusling did not know what to do with this new information, and so he stuck to the original mythology as spun by Ian Cowper Ross and, Rusling then tried to assimilate fact into fiction.

It was Ian Cowper Ross who began to fill in details of a mythical story that first appeared in his new book, and then on a supporting BBC-TV program. All of it originated from the mind of Ian Cowper Ross. This is what the cover of his book looks like:

Aside from the trouble that the book 'Radio Man' caused us (before we discovered what its text was concealing), it was 'Rocking the Boat' by Ian Cowper Ross that sent us off on a wild goose chase looking for the true details behind his work of fiction. But because his book is a novel, and because it was intended to mislead by misdirection, there is no true story to be uncovered!

However, Rusling swallowed Ian Cowper Ross' mythology, hook, line and sinker. In fact, it has been quite funny to read over the years various claims about the identity of 'Jimmy Ross' (who never existed.) Some linked him on 'Wikipedia' to Ross Fisheries, and some to the man behind Carphone Warehouse, which all goes to reinforcing the advice that students should never put their trust in anything that they read on Wikipedia!

The reason why 'Wikipedia' is unreliable as a source is demonstrated by the extract we have reproduced above, which is a part of its article about 'Radio Caroline'. If you are on 'Wikipedia' (see extract above) and click on (7) as a point of reference, you will discover that the page it references no longer exists.

If you track down its source via the Internet 'Wayback Machine', as we did, you first find that the people who ran the source site have packed it in, and second you find that what they wrote has nothing to do with Carl Ross! Worse still, if you click on (9) to discover the source of the silly claim that 'Radio Caroline' was named after Caroline Kennedy (which it was not), the source is none other than Malcolm Smith's own web site for his tiny radio venture that he calls 'Radio Caroline'. In other words you are led on another silly trot into nothingness.

'Wikipedia' as a source of information is an unreliable joke at its best, and a dangerous foil for the truth at its worst.

By the time that John Venmore-Rowland was commissioned to write his book about 'Radio Caroline' that was published in 1967, the station was already at death's door, and the author spent as few words as possible explaining where the money to start it had come from. His book also contains some basic errors concerning other matters.

Why it took Ian Cowper Ross until 1990 to publish his book called 'Rocking the Boat', remains somewhat of a mystery, except that it appears to have coincided with a need for Ian Cowper Ross to reinvent himself by using his loose association to 'Radio Caroline' in its early days via a connection to Jocelyn Stevens. However, since he was very much on the fringe of the story he had to rewrite events to make himself into one of the prime movers and shakers of the project.

Because of the connection between Christopher Moore (the club DJ), and Ronan O'Rahilly (who was at the time a stand-in gadfly acting as manager for another club), Ian Cowper Ross had to invent a role for himself by using his father's name. His father had been mentioned in the press as being C.E. Ross, and even then his name came up mainly due to his son seeking self-publicity during the very early days of 'Radio Caroline'.

It was in that scenario where Ian Cowper Ross took the name of a Jimmy who did exist, and applied to a Jimmy who did not exist. The Jimmy who did exist was Jimmy Deterding and he was on the board of directors of Project Atlanta Limited.

So Ian Cowper Ross applied the first name of Jimmy to his own father whose real name was not James, but Charles, in which case he would have been known as Charlie. But Jimmy Deterding's first name is James, and James Deterding was always referred to as Jimmy.

However, in his book, Ian Cowper Ross calls himself Paul Shaw, and he says that he has an older half-brother named Melville. Therefore Paul Shaw's father in this fictitious account has to be a Mr. Shaw who is only referred to as "Daddy" on page one, and not by Ian's father's real name of Charles Edward Ross.

Ian Cowper Ross does use the real location of Hindhead for his make believe family home, but it is not until page 3 that he identifies his first own fictitious name as 'Paul'. So now he is 'Paul Shaw', but we still don't know his father's first name because he keeps referring to his father as "Daddy".

This Paul Shaw then meets Johnny Meadows in a club where Meadows is a DJ. There is some indication that Johnny Meadows is supposed to be a cover name for Christopher Moore who then introduces Paul Shaw to an Irishman named Liam O'Mahoney who is supposed to be a cover name for Ronan O'Rahilly.

In this work of fiction, the three of them go to see Paul Shaw's father who the Irishman has never met before, and who is supposed to be senior in years to O'Mahoney. As unlikely as it seems, O'Mahoney begins to address the senior Mr Shaw with these words: "This is a fantastic set-up you have here, Jimmy. Absolutely fantastic." (See page 11.)

Ian Cowper Ross the author of this work of fiction, then says that O'Mahoney kept calling his father 'Jimmy'. But remember, we only know Paul Shaw's father as "Daddy", so he could be Jimmy Shaw, after all, this is a work of fiction.

To confuse things a little more, Ian Cowper Ross drops in real names of other people, even though he has renamed the motor vessel 'Fredericia' as the steam ship (page 56) 'Anastassia', and 'Radio Caroline' is known as 'Radio Camelot'.

This is where the story of 'Jimmy' bursts onto the scene in 1990, and to make matters worse, in various interviews, Ian Cowper Ross begins to tell everyone that this story is true. Not only that, but Ian Cowper Ross draws attention to the part where O'Mahoney (O'Rahilly), calls his father Jimmy, rather than Mr Ross or even Charles.

But of course this story is not true, it is fiction.

'Jimmy Ross' is a name never used by Ian Cowper Ross, it was dreamed up by the fools who started to write for 'Wikipedia' and then married fact with fiction. Ian Cowper Ross' book seems to have become the first in a deluge of latter-day books which then began to emerge from the printing presses. Each one claimed to be telling its readers the true story of 'Radio Caroline', but to date, not one of them has done so. Every new book in this genre seems to lift mythology cited by other books, and then embellish their texts with even more fiction.

The first make-believe story of 'Jimmy' was launched by the aristocratic mother-in-law of Ian Cowper Ross:

But to know how and why this book is the cause of so much mischief, it is necessary to know who Ian Cowper Ross is, and why he wrote this book in the way that he did. It was not just 'launched' with the string-pulling made possible by Lady Killean, it was also promoted by a BBC-TV program in which an older, and real-to-life Ian Cowper Ross, together with Christopher Moore, and accompanied by cameo appearances from both Jocelyn Stevens and Ronan O'Rahilly, all aimed at creating a totally fake history of 'Radio Caroline'. It seems as if together they put a ribbon around the 'Jimmy Ross' lie and then placed a huge bow on top of it for fools to admire.

The anoraks fell for this story and began to repeat it everywhere and anywhere and as often as the opportunity presented itself. Others commented upon their comments as if they were true, and soon the lie about 'Jimmy Ross' had been chiseled into the minds of a tribe of O'Rahilly worshipping clowns.

Thanks to Paul Alexander Rusling this lie has now been extended, because Rusling embarked upon his own mission to find another source to support the original lie. This is the Hitler doctrine of telling big lies to be believable, whereas small lies get brushed aside. Therefore it is necessary to explain both the original lie as told by Ian Cowper Ross, and that is what we have done in this edition of the Blog.

In fact, if Ian Cowper Ross had just launched his novel and left it at that, then it would stand or fall on its own merits as a story. But Ian Cowper Ross insisted on telling everyone during interviews that it is a true story!
 
It is not as if Rusling did not know that it was a lie, he did, but what he did not have access to is the information we now have about the motivation behind Ian Cowper Ross' original lie! To discover that information we had to know all about Ian Cowper Ross and his real father. So we investigated all of that and then discovered that his father as portrayed in Ian Cowper Ross' book 'Rocking the Boat', is not just fiction, but it is fiction that has been reinterpreted as fact, by Ian Cowper Ross!

It is ironic that for a long time we thought that the entire 'Jimmy' story was fiction, and so Rusling went out of his way to find another source that would agree with him that the "Jimmy Ross" story was not a fake. However, we knew the back-story about the life of Ian Cowper Ross, but we did not share that with Paul Rusling.

Quite recently we discovered that the missing pieces in the real story about the creation of 'Radio Caroline' in 1964, and that is one reason why we changed the focus of our research when we discovered that a real 'Jimmy' did exist. The real Jimmy is 'Mister Big' in this story, although Jocelyn Stevens said that there was no such person.

As described by Stevens, that is true. But in the true story about the creation of 'Radio Caroline', there is a real 'Mister Big' and his name is James Deterding who was always known as Jimmy who was hidden in plain sight. His name is on the letterhead of Project Atlanta Limited as one of its board of directors. It is also on the letterhead of the combined 'Radio Caroline'!

Ronald James, or R.J. Deterding is the grandson of Sir Henri Deterding, the man who built the Shell Oil conglomerate and then backed Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist agenda. Henri's grandson R. J., or Jimmy, nervously told a U.S. TV show audience that his grandfather had helped the British win World War I, and that as a result of Allied victory, he had been knighted for his services to the British Crown.

But Jimmy would rather excuse his grandfather's adoption of the Nazi cause by glossing over that 'unfortunate phase' in the life of the Shell Oil group of companies where it assisted Adolf Hitler. In one sense, Jimmy Deterding was lucky that his grandfather Sir Henri Deterding died before World War II began. But, even so, when he died he was given a full blown Nazi State funeral with all of the attending honors and glory that the Nazi State could bestow upon his corpse.

Jimmy Deterding had reasons for joining the board of Project Atlanta Limited, after it had been formed, and those reasons had nothing to do with broadcasting. They were affiliated with the same quest for offshore natural gas and oil that Shell was trying to discover. Jimmy Deterding had good reason to keep his head down and out of sight as much as possible. Just think what would have happened if the tabloids had learned of the Nazi and Irish connection to 'Radio Caroline'.

Ireland claimed to have sat out World War II as a neutral State. But if the tabloid press had dug a little deeper, then it is possible that both 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline' could have appeared on page one of a tabloid like the 'Daily Mirror'. It might have been seen by millions of readers draped with a swastika. This would have been a death blow, just as these offshore stations were beginning their offshore life!

There is more to this Nazi story relating to the birth of offshore broadcasting in the Nineteen Sixties than you might have ever imagined, but then why would you imagine such a thing? No one else has ever told you the truth. But we will continue to strip back more of the curtain of lies surrounding the 1964 birth of 'Radio Caroline'.

It will happen right here on this Blog!

Margaret, sister of the present Queen of the United Kingdom and etc., etc.

We now refer to the section marked "2" on Rusling's page 54. This information, like a lot of his data, came from us, and our paid research.

For a time, Paul Alexander Rusling was on our investigation mailing list, and so we shared our knowledge with him. But Rusling had a problem. He was trying write a book that would support the tiny licensed station which has come on the air with the name 'Radio Caroline'.

That tiny radio station has absolutely no connection to the twin stations which were killed off in 1967 by a new British law. This new tiny station is licensed by the British government.

Rusling's problem is that the facts, the true facts in evidence, contradict his own petty thesis, and so he invented a totally misleading account as shown in his own words that appeared in illustration 54(2) on this Blog, yesterday.

First of all there was no connection whatsoever between John Sheffield and Charles Orr Stanley of the Pye Group of companies. Second, Charles Orr Stanley had absolutely no plans to operate a chain of radio stations, but it is true that from the end of World War II, C. O. Stanley had been the driving force behind the creation of licensed British sponsored radio and television stations, and in the early Nineteen Fifties his campaign did lead to a watered down version with the birth of ITA as a rival to BBC. It was not what C. O. Stanley had in mind.

Rather than licensing independent television station companies, the British government licensed a commercial monopoly. That was the Independent Television Authority (ITA), and it brokered off its airtime (ITA owned all of the transmitters), to a number of program and advertising franchises which did not compete geographically with each other.

Beginning around the year 2015, we were introduced to the part played by Charles Orr Stanley in the promotion of British commercial radio broadcasting. Our introduction came within a book called 'Radio Man'. In the years that followed, we and an associate, spent a lot of time trying to untangle the contradictory claims made in that book. We eventually found the answer, thanks to help from this associate who has asked us not to mention his name.

Earlier this year we wrote a detailed account of this saga that began in 2015, and it was recently published in a communications journal. Our article explained the true story behind the text that appeared in the book 'Radio Man'. But it is nothing like the fictitious nonsense published by Rusling in 54(2).  We will not reproduce our published text here, because we will save it for the book that will eventually emerge from this Blog.

However, as far as we know, neither Pye nor Charles Orr Stanley nor his son John Stanley, ever invested money in either 'Radio Atlanta', or 'Radio Caroline'. There is absolutely no connection that we know of that links John Sheffield and either of the two Stanleys. Rusling made this up.

All of that leads into 54(3), which appears to have been lifted from the fantasy novel called 'Rocking the Boat' that was written by Ian Cowper Ross as a part of his intention to deceive and mislead, just like Paul Alexander Rusling.

Tomorrow, this expose continues.

It there is one thing that Paul Alexander Rusling is attempting to excel in, it is becoming a star pupil in the school of deceitful propaganda with an agenda that obliterates fact and promotes fiction. "Hail! Hail! Obfuscated ignorance cloaked in the title 'The Radio Caroline bible'!"

Rusling does not mean to imply that his 'bible' is a mere collection of random writings, because one of his chief supporters has claimed that Rusling's book of lies should be in every home, just like the 'Christian Bible'. It is that kind of ridiculous thinking that opened the door for anoraks to hail the now dead Ronan O'Rahilly, who while he was alive, they promoted as a kind of religious 'Loving Awareness' messiah.

What kind of creed was 'L.A.'?

It was one promoting the endless playing of records paid for in the main by preachers of religion. But the anoraks don't want to talk about that, they just want to talk about something called 'free radio', whatever that is. It had nothing to do with making lives better, and after the legal death of the real 'Radio Caroline', it just meant that there were some loners sitting on a rusty tub in the North Sea playing records and scrounging for an income to stay alive. Even those trying to save starving cats do more good than that!

Therefore we are gradually demolishing Rusling's 'bible' by exposing its texts to comparisons with the facts in evidence. By the time we arrive at Rusling's pages 53 and 54 it is clear that he has stolen a lot of our research material, but it is also clear that he does not know how to deal with it. So in typical Rusling form he cobbled his fragments together as part of a continuing fictitious narrative. That is what Rusling had sold to gullible buyers of his 'bible'.

To further illustrate what we mean, we will now focus on more of his textual misinformation which appears upon pages 53 and 54:

1. Rusling prefaces the highlighted section with these words: "....The Princess Margaret .... was apparently one of the driving forces behind the 'escapade' which is how she described Radio Caroline to friends." Now where does Rusling get that idea from? He doesn't say, but he does try to link it to a  home movie that Peter Sellers filmed on the grounds of the large house that was occupied by Jocelyn Stevens and his wife.

However, when we claim that is was 'large', it was nothing like the enormous size of the structure that was occupied by Jimmy Deterding at Kelling Hall in Norfolk. That residence was the home of the real "Mister Big" who was behind the creation of both 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline'. It was not Jocelyn Stevens!

Naturally Paul Rusling gets the title of Peter Seller's film wrong!

It was not 'produced' at the Stevens' home. It was filmed there during the Autumn of 1964, and it was then shown by Princess Margaret to her sister Elizabeth during the first half of the following year.

This home movie was filmed to by Peter Sellers using his own camera. Peter Sellers then took his raw footage which was composed of several skits, some featuring Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon acting out rather silly episodes, and he then produced his finished film.

Peter Sellers gave his home movie the title of: 'I Say, I Say, I Say'. It begins with a hand-drawn title card illustrated by a coat of arms with a radio ship at the top! You can watch the opening and closing portions of his film right here, right now, should you chose to do so:

More tomorrow ....

On page 51 of Rusling's 'bible', he claimed that Jocelyn Stevens was the "founder of 'Queen' magazine", but on his very next page (52), Rusling states that: "Jocelyn's grandfather, Sir Edward Hulton had sold him an old long established fashion magazine called Queen, aimed at the aristocracy."

Aside from the words "old long established" being redundant, the fact of the matter is that "the aristocacy" were reading this magazine for information about members of the exclusive Society in which they were engaging.

Proof of the fact that Paul Rusling has absolutely no idea of the subject matter he is trying to educate others about, is shown above: This publication which began in 1861 during the reign of Queen Victoria, was titled: 'The Ladies’ Newspaper, The Queen and Court Chronicle'. This masthead is from an edition published in 1863, and it gives readers an idea of its primary focal point when defining the word 'Society' within the Nineteen Century reign of Queen Victoria.

This publication did not set out to blab about anyone who thought of themselves to be a cut above the rest, its focal point was The Queen and her Court, which referred to Queen Victoria. This was very prim and proper reporting! The contents of this publication have been described as "an illustrated weekly society magazine established by Samuel Beeton .... originally focused on the proceedings of high society and the British aristocracy."

​It was not until 1886 that this newspaper amended its name to reverse the order of its title so that it became 'The Queen, The Lady's Newspaper & Court Chronicle', by which time advertising filled its front page in common practice with many daily newspapers of that time.

By the time of the Christmas Edition for 1912, readers had to turn past the outer wrap-around cover; past the inner masthead of the publication which heralded nineteen pages of advertising, in order to reach the cover of the Christmas edition itself:

You may wonder why we are engaging in this exercise concerning the history of 'Queen' magazine as it became known under the ownership of Jocelyn Stevens. The reason is this:

Not only is Paul Rusling totally out of his depth at playing 'historian', but Ronan O'Rahilly has to be seen in his contextual appearance within the strata's of prejudicial; homophobic; sexist; class-managed British groupings as they were encountered during the early Nineteen Sixties.

Women were exploited; lesbians were male fantasies; male homosexuals did not exist except as effeminate stage characters, but never as sexual human beings, and the hoi polloi were classified by the color of their skin and by their accent as well as their choice of vocal expressions.  So to imply that young Ronan O'Rahilly could arrive from Southern Ireland and be accepted in London's financial circles as a credible person, is ridiculous. It is even sillier to suggest that this person could address a man senior in age to him, who he had never met before, by immediately calling Charles Edward Ross "Jimmy". Then, Rusling claims, Ronan O'Rahilly used a 'rabid' approach (with his strong Irish accent) to bamboozle this car salesman into funding 'Radio Caroline', which at that time did not exist.  This scenario which is promoted by Rusling is absurd. Rusling did not invent it, he merely picked it up and ran with it.

​In 1957, Jocelyn Stevens bought 'The Queen' as it was then known, from his maternal uncle Sir Edward George Warris Hulton who was its latest owner and publisher. Stevens then set about turning 'The Queen' into an alternative Society magazine. The British Newspaper Archive says this is what happened:

".... by the end of the 1950s, the title was shortened to Queen and the content recalibrated to appeal to a younger readership – a significant shift in tone from the paper’s origins. This was at the behest of editor Beatrix Miller, who had climbed through the ranks after beginning her career at the magazine as a secretary. Miller supposedly had a very specific image of ‘Caroline’, the ideal reader, and provided a copy of a new style guide to every contributing writer so that they had a clear idea of who they were writing for."

Jocelyn Stevens' motivation he said, was the failure of the Tory Establishment to pull-off the Suez invasion with the French and Israel. So he tuned into a rebel within the Establishment which was built around the Queen's sister Margaret. Jocelyn Stevens' step-brother was Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, who as a military man, provided assistance to Queen Elizabeth II.  Jocelyn Stevens step-sister was married to the former Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office and she was alsp a Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen Mother. So Jocelyn Stevens had a lot of connections within the British Establishment. He was not an outsider, he was one of "them", but he was also an insider causing trouble, just like his friend Princess Margaret.

The year before he bought 'The Queen' magazine, Jocelyn married Jane Armyne Sheffield, daughter of John Sheffield, the controlling voice at Norcros. Now what Rusling has tried to do is link John Sheffield to Jocelyn Stevens via Charles Edward Ross, who Rusling calls 'Jimmy', in order to create a mythological source of funding for 'Radio Caroline'.

But as we have explained, Charlie Ross, who his son Ian never talks about, except in the context of this fanciful story as amplified by Rusling, is the person Rusling identifies as 'Jimmy', and 'Jimmy' is central to Rusling's story. However, for obvious reasons Charles Edward Ross would not have been called 'Jimmy', he would have been known as Charlie.

The question is why would someone invent such a silly story? The answer seems to be that a quick explanation needed to be found in order to re-identify Jimmy in order to hide the real Jimmy who did exist. It became necessary to obscure from view this real person called Jimmy by blurring his true identity. This became necessary when Jimmy Deterding joined the board of Project Atlanta Limited, because it was from that company that 'Radio Caroline' emerged. But in the scheme of things at the time, it was decided to create a totally fictitious originating company behind the creation of 'Radio Caroline', and the tale-spinners got away with it, for a time. For a long time, until we came along!

The problem arose when journalists and government officials tried to figure out who was behind 'Radio Caroline', because no one had actually created a company beyond referencing a name. Consequently that company which didn't exist, began to cause headaches. Since Jimmy Deterding was on the board of directors of Project Atlanta which did exist and from which 'Radio Caroline' did emerge, a scheme was invented to stage a 'merger' of 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline'. But how could they merge one company with a non-existent company? They couldn't, so they did the next best thing and they got away with it. Until now.

Both 'Radio Atlanta' and 'Radio Caroline' had their own public relations firms, and they were entities hired for that purpose. So the two PR firms put out a joint press release to say that 'Radio Atlanta' would become 'Radio Caroline South', and the original 'Radio Caroline' would become 'Radio Caroline North'. The south ship would stay off Essex, and the north ship would sail for an anchorage off Ramsay, Isle of Man, but they would operate as before, only now they would share a common sales operation, but not a common ownership. That is where the deception began which led everyone on a wild goose chase to find the 'Radio Caroline' company that never existed!

That solution sounded good, but again, no one bothered to register this new joint sales operation as a British company, even though it was doing business in the United Kingdom. One reason is that there was no need to do so. There was no new sales operation in the United Kingdom. It was the original sales operation represented by Project Atlanta Limited, and it even used that company's 'Palairwave' telex address. A separate sales company was registered during February 1964 in the Republic of Ireland, but actual control of the two Caroline stations remained in London.

Another question could have arisen as to why was this charade necessary? Why didn't both ships go to their appointed locations to begin with? We will have a lot more to say about that in future editions because the answer is related to knowing more about Jimmy Deterding.

Jocelyn Stevens provided a sense of legitimacy to 'Radio Caroline' in a way that young Ronan O'Rahilly could never do. Here is a screenshot from the May 2, 1964 Granada TV show 'World in Action' that was filmed in Jocelyn Stevens' tiny advertising office. It shows Ian Cowper Ross; Jocelyn Stevens; Ronan O'Rahilly and Christopher Moore.

​When this was filmed before being shown on television in the May 2, 1964 Granada TV schedule by the Independent Television Authority, 'Radio Caroline' was already on the air, but 'Radio Atlanta' had not signed on. This is where the 'cover-story' about two separate projects was 'sold' to journalists, and that is when Jocelyn Stevens had to step up to provide an air of legitimacy that Ronan O'Rahilly could never conjure up.

O'Rahilly's job, with the help of Ross, was to tell the press about a fake 1-2-3 chain of events that began in a club with DJ Chris Moore, who introduced Ian Ross to Ronan O'Rahilly, so that Ian Ross could introduce Ronan O'Rahilly to Ian Ross' father named Charles, who O'Rahilly then called 'Jimmy'.

In this mythical tale, 'Jimmy Ross' then contacted either Jocelyn Stevens, or John Sheffield (it depends upon who is repeating this tale and when they repeated it as to who came second in line), and then the three of them funded 'Radio Caroline'. But on Granada TV, Jocelyn Stevens found it necessary to block further enquiries as to whether there was  a "Mister Big" behind the entire operation: Jocelyn Stevens claimed that "Mister Big" did not exist. 

Jocelyn Stevens also found it necessary to financially expose himself to the press as being the primary mover and shaker behind the venture. Not a 'Jimmy Ross'; nor John Sheffield, but Jocelyn Stevens, so the press never interviewed the bogus 'Jimmy Ross' or the very real John Sheffield in order to gain details about the story behind the story. It seems that the press investigative journalists were easy to dispose of, or they were instructed by their employers to leave this subject alone. As you will discover, this is not a story about a small amount of advertising from offshore radio stations, but something far more complex and potentially involving huge sums of money. The representative of that hidden story is Jimmy Deterding.

This story has remained hidden from view and obfuscated by vanity publishers such as Paul Alexander Rusling. But the time has now come to blow the lid off the real story about 'Radio Caroline', because it is not just a story about 'Radio Caroline', but a story that impacts the lives of millions of people alive today who have never heard of 'Radio Caroline'.

The licensed station called 'Radio Caroline' that is on the air now has absolutely no relationship to the offshore station that came on the air in 1964 and was legally terminated in 1967, never to return. Unfortunately 'The Radio Caroline bible' is telling its readers a totally fictitious tale while pretending to tell readers that they are being told a true account. The bottom line is that all those who are claiming some form of continuity are dealing in deceit in order to line their own pockets and bolster their own vanity.

This has to be stopped.
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Our unique and exclusive revelations will continue here on tomorrow's Blog.

Paul Rusling's ludicrous 'bible' sets forth a chain of events aimed at gullible believers, because it is a chain of events that just didn't happen. Paul did not make them up, he was merely the latest bagman in a line of bagmen (see the publishing motif above), and he merely repeated tales of previous mythology which he then stamped with his own imprimatur of make believe.

Rusling had one goal in mind, and that was, and still is (until he stops selling his 'bible'), to  promote his own vanity press publications in order to milk as much as he can from the pockets of an aging population of radio anoraks. Therefore, it is our duty as honest investigative journalists to once and for all time smash this chain of mythology, and try our best to prevent it from being perpetrated by someone else. Or, if someone is foolhardy and callous enough to try it, then at least potential buyers should be able to find this exposé, and after reading it, save themselves some money!

By the way, if you spot a typo in our texts, please let us know since this is a public service in the public interest which costs you nothing. We thank the person who told us about the previously missing 'r' in the word stockbroker. We made the correction.

Since this work is being read in the USA, we also need to point out that we use a lot of American English spelling, and because the U.S. Constitution forbids the U.S. government from imposing religious denominational terminology upon its citizens via legal documents, we avoid that kind of terminology. This includes identifying first names as "Christian names". Similarly, we do not refer to ships as "she", and neither do we claim that they have been "Christened" with a name. We find that kind of terminology to be both sexist and cultish. There is nothing inherently feminine or religious about a ship, and since all human beings are born the same way, it is clear that every one of them is born free from any form of religious pre-birth mind programing.

We added those notes because the person who drew our attention to the missing 'r', seemed to think that this work should comply with aspects of the Christian religion. We do not consciously do so. However, we do comply with a code of ethics that forbids spreading of lies and or using false pretenses to steal from gullible people. Those are two reasons why we make this exposé available to you - free of charge!

So with that out of the way, let us return to our analysis of pages 52 to 54 that appear in the 'bible' published by Paul Alexander Rusling:

This is where the story that appears in 'The Radio Caroline Bible' is revealed to be totally without foundation in fact, in other words it is totally untrue. However, by using the analogy of the 'Christian Bible', one of Mr. Rusling's supporters has told all persons interested in offshore radio that they need to buy a copy of Paul Rusling's book. But since his book contains a foundational story that is totally untrue and even dedicated to a lie, then the religious analogy in the cause of stimulating sales, would seem to backfire on promoters of the 'Christian Bible'. We would like to see the publisher of 'The Radio Caroline bible' offer an apology to all readers and offer his buyers a full refund.

On page 52, Mr Rusling has written: "..... Jocelyn Stevens and another friend of Charles Ross, John Sheffield, assembled a group of prospective shareholders."

The problem with that statement which is not founded in any factual reference, is that it implies that Jocelyn Stevens and Charles Ross were friends, and that together they were also friends with John Sheffield. But there is nothing to support that idea of friendship, or that the three of them "assembled a group of prospective shareholders."

That is plain fiction at its worst, because it is not a novel to entertain, but a volume claiming to be factual truth. It is not.

First of all, Jocelyn Stevens was a publisher moving within his own circle, and Charles Edward Ross was a car salesman moving within his own circle. John Sheffield was the boss of Charles Edward Ross, not his friend, although it is possible that the three of them came to know each other on friendly terms.

Second, the idea that these three "assembled a group of prospective shareholders" implies that they had some common commercial cause for which they needed to raise money, but unless that common cause was unrelated to 'Radio Caroline', they had no need to raise money from "prospective shareholders". That statement in itself implies that a company existed which was offering its shares for sale to "prospective shareholders" so that they could invest in 'Radio Caroline'.

What company was that?

There was NO such company as the one described.

There was no new company dedicated to the creation of 'Radio Caroline', because its backing company already existed. It was called Project Atlanta Limited and after its formation in August 1963, Jimmy Deterding joined a number of directors to form its blue-ribbon management board. Later, they would also be joined by a World War II hero who was identified by his senior rank in the Royal Air Force.

So what was the name of this company that didn't exist, which Paul Rusling invented?

He doesn't say.

Later he refers to an Irish sales company formed in February 1964, and he tried to marry by implication, one event which did not happen, to one that did! There was NO company called 'Radio Caroline' which sold shares to put that station on the air, because 'Radio Caroline' was a spin-off from Project Atlanta Limited.

But now that Rusling has introduced John Sheffield, we need to further consider what he says about him, because it is more of the same garbled fact, mixed with fiction.

Paul Rusling provides this slab of text because he wants readers to believe that he is well-versed when it comes to John Sheffield and Norcros and its relationship to Charles Edward Ross and Jensen Cars of Birmingham. In fact he has to invent a bogus connection that does not exist in reality. Note that he calls "Charlie" Ross, "Jimmy" Ross. This is inserted to create bogus links within his bogus story!

Charles Edward Ross lived on a former farm at Hindhead which had been sub-divided, and his employment was tied to London area sales for Jensen, the financially troubled Birmingham car company. The owners of that company did not like Sheffield, but for a time they were drawn to him because they were desperate for funding.

Sheffield's Norcros group of companies bought them out and kept them on as managers. A similar event had taken place with Continental Electronics when it was bought out by James Ling and it eventually became a part of his LTV group of aircraft-electronics companies. But Norcros was a tiny imitation by comparison. Unfortunately for Jensen Cars, their fortunes did not improve under Norcros and they were dumped by Norcros, eventually to be broken-up and to go out of business under the original owners.

As we have previously shown on this Blog, Charles Edward Ross seems to have had a drink-while-driving problem, and  that landed him in court. We also found a news clipping which implies that he died intestate, and that implies that he was broke! His son Ian never mentions his father, but he has a lot to say about the wealthy Establishment family that he married into.

The reason for pointing all this out in context of pages 52-53 of Rusling's book, is to show that what Rusling is claiming is sheer bunk. Rubbish. Nonsense. Tripe. Balderdash.

Forget this Rusling idea of a trio composed of Ross, Stevens and Sheffield, it did not happen. But, there was a relationship between Sheffield and Stevens, because Stevens did marry Sheffield's daughter, but the circle that Stevens moved in, was not the Sheffield circle and it certainly had nothing to do with Charles Edward Ross.

Tomorrow, we will show you part of the Stevens' social circle, and we will continue to extrapolate truth from nonsense on pages 52 to 54 of Rusling's work.

If you examine previous editions of this Blog, you will discover that we have previously reported a lot more about Charles Edward Ross and his youngest son Ian. But on today's Blog we will explode the mythological storyline (as repeatedly told), that puts Ian Cowper Ross together with Christopher Moore and Ronan O'Rahilly in the home of Charles and Phyllis at Hindhead. That is when and where they supposedly asked for money to start 'Radio Caroline'. But as we have also repeatedly shown, that just did not happen.

Since the latest dumping of nonsense on the public took place at the hands Paul Alexander Rusling (who did so to dupe his gullible audience into buying his vanity publication), we will use it as the example here. It is not as if Paul Alexander Rusling did not know better: he did.

In fact Paul Alexander Rusling paid two personal visits to our satellite library base in Falkirk, Scotland in order to discuss the history of 'Radio Caroline' - without explaining his ulterior motives in doing so. In protest, after being exposed, he sent us a string of emails in which he attempted to justify his actions.

Well now his escapade is blowing up in his face, because we will explain in detail that what Paul Alexander Rusling wrote, is sheer rubbish. We conclude from his own words to us, that he published his rubbish to swindle his gullible audience, and those buyers should now be demanding a refund having been sold a book under false pretenses!

In the Index to 'The Radio Caroline Bible', Rusling has listed two pages relating to "Ross, Charles", and this is what Paul Alexander Rusling has written:

 On page 51 in his second paragraph Rusling states that Charles Edward Ross: "had done well in the City of London; while never wearing the traditional bowler hat, nor being a member of the Establishment, he did mix with lots of stockbrokers and money people." But the facts show that Charles Edward Ross was not a stockbroker - but a car salesman for the Birmingham-based Jensen car company!

In his fourth paragraph on this same page, Rusling states that: "While Ross senior's Christian name was Charles, many of his close friends and colleagues knew him simply as 'Jimmy'." That sentence is just plain silly on several counts:

1) There is nothing that we know of that defines the religion of Charles Edward Ross. In the USA first names are referred to as 'first names'!

2) Rusling wrote that his first name "WAS" Charles. Is Rusling implying that Charles changed his first name? We know of nothing to support such an idea!

3) Rusling claims that for some hitherto inexplicable reason, a person named Charles is not called Charlie, but Jimmy by his friends!

However, we know and you also now know why it was necessary to invent a story about 'Jimmy': It was to redirect attention away from Jimmy Deterding, the grandson of the founder of Royal Dutch Shell and on the board of directors of Project Atlanta Limited.

Project Atlanta Limited was the company behind the creation of 'Radio Caroline', and Jimmy Deterding was on its board of directors in order to protect other financial interests that he had. They were connected to contemporary developments at Bacton, which at the time was located just down the coast from Jimmy Deterding's palatial Norfolk estate  near Holt.

There was only one primary operating company behind 'Radio Caroline' and that company was Project Atlanta Limited!

Rusling, on his page 51 continues in paragraph five with more nonsense: "The near rabid enthusiasm of Ian and Ronan encouraged Ross Senior to make a few phone calls that night. One was to his pal Jocelyn Stevens, the founder of Queen magazine, who was a wealthy and well-connected media baron."

While Ronan O'Rahilly could be equated with a rabid dog, there is nothing to suggest that car salesman Charles Edward Ross even knew Jocelyn Stevens.

Furthermore, Jocelyn Stevens was not "the founder of Queen magazine"!

Rusling tosses out words without giving thought to their definitive meanings.

Stevens bought 'Queen' magazine from a previous publisher, but the magazine itself began publication back in 1861 during the reign of Queen Victoria. Jocelyn Stevens was born in the year 1932, and by then, 'Queen' magazine had already published in many editions.

While Jocelyn Stevens did own a small group of publications, he was not a "media baron" which is defined as being a person of the caliber of a Hearst; Beaverbrook or Murdoch. Jocelyn Stevens had assembled a trade newspaper and a few specialty magazines under his control. His company did not even have the capacity to print what he was publishing!

This mythology, or cocoon of interlocking lies spun by Rusling, does not stop on his page 51, they continue in the same vein through to the end of his Chapter 4 on page 57, which brings in a variety of individuals, and they also need to be untangled from his garbled mess.

Tomorrow we will continue these revelations by exposing the insanity of the Caroline cult that has been fostered by Rusling's 'bible'.

We have already introduced you to James Deterding who was always called 'Jimmy' by his friends. We explained that he is the grandson of Sir Henri Deterding, founder of the Royal Dutch Shell group of companies, and that his grandfather was given a Nazi State funeral for his contribution to the Nazi Party under the leadership of Führer Adolf Hitler.

We will return to the story of Jimmy Deterding in future editions of this Blog. But now we want to tell you all about a man never called Jimmy, although the writers of fake stories about the creation of 'Radio Caroline' want you to believe that he was. They want you to believe this lie because it supports their bigger lie that this non-Jimmy was the man who made the birth of 'Radio Caroline' possible, even if he wasn't. We will prove that he wasn't called Jimmy, and that he was not the man who got the financing for 'Radio Caroline'.

Misdirection began early on in the mythological telling of a tale about 'Radio Caroline'.

It began shortly after 'Radio Caroline' came on the air in 1964 when it was suggested that it owed its financial birth to a man with the initials "C. E.".

The surname of that man is Ross.

It was then suggested that Mr. C. E. Ross had an association with the father-in-law of Jocelyn Stevens, and the name of that man is John Sheffield. We will tell you more about both Jocelyn Stevens and John Sheffield tomorrow.

However, before you get lost in this untangling of a deliberately tangled tale, we will remind you that the main character is a Mr. C. E. Ross. His initials represent the names Charles Edward. So we are talking about a Charles Edward Ross. Friends may have called him Charlie, or even Eddie. They would not have called him 'Jimmy' which is a nickname for someone named James, as in James Deterding.

​We mention all of this because Paul Alexander Rusling and a host of other vanity publishers, have all repeated the nonsense lie that Charles Edward Ross did not object to being called 'Jimmy' by a young Irishman who was less than half of the age of Mr. Ross, and who Mr. Ross had met for the very first time. This is one of the initial points of unbelievability in the mythology surrounding the creation of 'Radio Caroline'. We call them lies and their most recent promotion as lies has been at the hand of Paul Alexander Rusling.

In 1964, Charles Edward Ross lived in a leased house at Hindhead, which is a village centered ten and a half miles southwest of Guildford, and that is the county town of Surrey on its border with the county of Hampshire. The Surrey town of Haslemere is located two miles southeast of the village of Hindhead.

The house that Charles Edward Ross lived in was located on what had recently been a farm in Hindhead. The farm was auctioned off in the Nineteen Fifties and was situated in Reynards Wood, which is located off a small hill to the western side of a bend in Woolmer Road. Letters addressed to residents in the vicinity of Reynards Wood used Haslemere as their postal address.

The farm that was auctioned off by its owner, and the house that Charles Edward Ross lived in, had been built on part of that former agricultural property. The house was arrived at by a small private road blocked by a gated entrance which gained the name of 'Reynardswood'.

Charles Edward was married to Phyllis, a lady who came from Haslemere. Charles had been born in New Zealand, and his entrepreneurial parents owned a business. Charles and Phyllis had two sons; their youngest was named Ian Cowper Ross, with a middle name inserted to preserve connections with family roots in New Zealand.

Before relocation to Hindhead, Ian was born in London. He had been sent to the same public school at Repton previously attended by his older brother, although Ian, by his own admission, was not a successful pupil.

At age 18, on November 3, 1961, Ian found himself in Derby County Magistrates Court where he was pronounced "guilty of driving in a manner dangerous to the public". Ian had  caused an accident to occur at Willington, Derbyshire. He was fined £50 and disqualified from driving for a year.

In court, Ian faced the judge on crutches, which he explained was "the result of a broken leg he received in the accident". He also gained the nickname of 'Flipper' from his mangled foot that was barely saved from amputation. Many years later in California, in a partnership business, the name 'Flipper' was emblazoned in light above a roller disco, implying that Ian had come to both accept and even promote his nickname. 

Back in 1961, in court, Ian told the judge that he had been "to visit his old school at Repton" when the Jensen car he was driving, crashed head-on into a bus. It might be deemed needless to say, but Ian was driving on the wrong side of the road when he caused £4000 damage to the Jensen sports car which hit the bus. This was not his first road accident. He also managed to wreck a classic motorbike during another road excursion. Eighteen years old and for all intents and purposes unemployed, Ian got hold of the Jensen car from his father who was a director of a Birmingham-based factory that made Jensen cars, and for whom Charles Edward Ross acted as a salesman.

Ian, as the second son of Charles and Phyllis was not exactly an asset to his father or mother, other than being a fact of life as their biological offspring. But Ian grew up, he began to believe that he had some sort of entitlement to a life of riches that did not involve achievement via work. Over time Ian evolved a plan to marry into both the British Establishment, and into wealth, while having fun and frivolity at the expense of other people.

Ian's 'ticket' to the 'good life', was to be a young model who added sex and glamor to Ian's daydream, but which he planned to turn into a reality. This is where the germ of an idea that matured into a psuedo roman-a-clef story about the fake origins of 'Radio Caroline' sprang from.

We will tell you more tomorrow.

Mike Wilson has an interesting site called 'Conversation Central' - which is linked in this sentence, or you can reach it by the link above in our drop-down 'About' selection.

A lot of the issues that we are running into get bathed in philosophical; religious and political discussions when it comes to Planetary resources, and who 'owns' them. Of course no human being 'owns' anything because every human being will die.

It's the bit that comes before death and after birth that causes the problems.

This Planet has enough raw materials to take care of all of the needs of all of the human beings presently alive. But unfortunately, since time immemorial this Planet has been populated by some human beings who live by the slogan 'Might Make Right', or "what's mine is mine, and what's yours is also mine." That may be followed by the question of: "what are you going to do about it"?

The answer of course is not much, unless you think you have greater "might" than your opponent. Put into the context of nations, that means war.

So what is the answer?

The Planet has one solution: death. Kill off the human beings causing trouble to other human beings. Unfortunately the Planet is indiscriminate in its killing. It kills everyone.

Although this Planet has enough raw materials for everyone to live very well, the problem is the greed that comes from hoarding by some individuals at the expense of the majority.

Thinking about that gave rise to the idea of communism, but to make that work is to fail at trying to make that work. It won't work. Then there is the idea of some sort of elected democracy that imposes social behavior, again by force if necessary, on the masses. That is not exactly a peaceful way to live, either. The problem with capitalism is when it gets twisted into something else when one capitalist buys out, or sabotages another capitalist, and thus another reign of 'fat cats' is begun.

Might make right is not a fact to be endorsed. Might make fact is something to be resisted. But given the present structure of human life on this Planet, might make right was, and will remain the way that humanity lives on this Planet.

Everything else that is living on this Planet also lives by that creed: plants, animals, you name it. So the solution provided by this Planet is: 'Death to all'.

Death is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

Even the mightiest dictator and thug dies within the same time frame as everyone else, and no dictator, no thug, no matter how mighty, can take his/her ill-gained spoils beyond their own human life. Unfortunately, some try to do just that. Just look at those pyramids!

Then there is education.

Might make right is there as well.

Now "social media giants" have got into that act: Say or write the wrong thing and your future messages will be killed-off before they even appear.

In the meantime, the Internet, as young as it is, still functions, and regardless of the trolls out there who don't appreciate their mythology being debunked, that is exactly what we intend to keep on doing!

If you have a comment, you know where to go: 'Conversation Central'.

It is not for a shortage of books, magazine articles, newspaper stories and both radio and television programs as well as movies, that questions about the real origins of Radio Caroline have remained hidden for so long.

All of the other primary offshore broadcasting stations of the Sixties were headed by operations with registered offices at identifiable addresses. But not Radio Caroline. In fact, it seemed to the interested observer that there was no managing company. 'Caroline Sales' existed in name only, but in 1964 it did not exist as a company, even though spokesmen claimed in the press that it did.

Radio Caroline had an impressive address, but as government inspectors from the British Board of Trade soon discovered, although there were a plethora of activities taking place at that address, none of them seemed to be running a business that was popularly known as 'Radio Caroline'.

However, Radio Caroline did have a parent company, and that was Project Atlanta Limited at 47 Dean Street; not at 6 Chesterfield Gardens which had been rebranded as 'Caroline House'.

But when Project Atlanta Limited was focused upon, it seemed to be the parent company of a short-lived station called 'Radio Atlanta' which soon became 'Radio Caroline South', and when it did, a press release indicated that it would continue to be run by Project Atlanta Limited. But as for the original 'Radio Caroline', well it had a separate public relations firm, but seemingly it lacked an actual company behind it.

At least, that is the way it appears in all those books and articles which focused upon an Irish gadfly who misdirected everyone with lies and deception. The company behind 'Radio Caroline' was Project Atlanta Limited, but the strength of that company was not in its chairman, nor its managing director. They were titles representing two men who were fronting for a blue-ribbon board of directors and one man in particular: Jimmy Deterding.

The mythmakers all claimed that Project Atlanta Limited ran out of money and so its managing director resigned and its chairman then ran-off to engage in a foolhardy exercise in trying to grab control of another offshore station called 'Radio City'. That venture created more misinformation and misdirection when the owner of 'Radio City' was shot dead in his home by the chairman of Project Atlanta Limited.

Meanwhile, other offshore broadcasting ventures attracted a lot of attention of their own, and three of the noisiest came from Texas and were promoted by Don Pierson. But he had no knowledge about the origins of 'Radio Caroline', he only knew what the news media was pumping out, and this caused him to make a lot of errors in judgment with those three stations.

At the time, one man named Jocelyn Stevens who was well connected within British Establishment circles, seemed to be the person that the young Irish gadfly was fronting for. But Jocelyn Stevens was not 'Mister Big', who Jocelyn Stevens went on television to claim that such a person did not exist. But he did exist, very quietly within his vast Norfolk estate. His name is Jimmy Deterding and he is the grandson of Sir Henri Deterding who founded the Shell consortium of companies.

It had been known since at least the days of World War II when Sir Winston Churchill imported a team of Texans to explore for, and then pump out oil from onshore wells in England, that those wells went into fields that extended offshore. Vast amounts of natural gas were also discovered and then pumped from onshore wells in Holland, and again, it was known that those fields also extended out into the North Sea.

But even as the Sixties dawned, the technology to retrieve natural gas and oil from the North Sea was in its infancy, and again all eyes drifted across the Atlantic Ocean to Texas to see what could be achieved. Jimmy Deterding lived 'just down the road' from Bacton in Norfolk where the story of North Sea natural gas and oil exploration would come alive.

​However, in those days the interest in retrieving those resources was not only outpacing technology, but it was also outpacing laws which could guarantee ownership. Everyone knew that vast sums of money would be involved in the initial exploration phases alone, and that knowledge translated into a potential Wild West type of environment. The stakes were as high or higher than those previously driven to claim gold, or just land itself.

But this land was under the water, and since it was beyond the territorial waters of various nations bordering the North Sea, it raised questions about legal ownership, and they were questions that at first could not be answered. It was not so much a question about rival prospectors, but about rival governments. What would they do?

So while all eyes were on the Irishman and disc jockeys, the big story involving billions of Dollars worth of potential profits, was being discussed in Houston, Texas, and in subsidiary offices within London. None of them had anything to do with offshore radio or television broadcasting.

Jimmy Deterding was their man on the spot, because 'Radio Caroline', like REM Island, served more than one purpose. To listeners and viewers they were broadcasting stations, but to the people behind the scenes, the Caroline ship and REM Island were means to test the legal waters of their intended claims to ownership of North Sea natural gas and oil fields.

No one has ever explained any of this before, but you are now reading it free of charge as a public service in the public interest. Yes, at least one book will follow in the wake of this Blog that will put this entire story together in context of both the times and the people who lived through the Sixties, and who were 'there' at the birth of this enormous offshore industry in the North Sea.

Some object to the way in which we are repeating our storyline and delivering it to you in "dribs and drabs" (to quote our detractors) - even though those complaining are getting the true story - at last and free of charge!

This research has cost a LOT of money, and guess who has paid for it? The answer is the team that is providing the true story to you - free of charge!

It has taken us a long time to find the common denominator in this story, and that common denominator is the discovery and exploitation of North Sea natural gas and oil. It is not just a British story, in fact, the story begins with Texas, and while it has links to drilling in the British Isles during World War II, the story was revived after WWII inside Holland, and this brings us to the story of the Dutch offshore radio and television stations on REM Island.

But again, just like the misdirection deliberately sown to mislead everyone about the true origins of 'Radio Caroline', the real story behind REM Island is not to be found by following the people behind the broadcasting ventures on REM Island, but the people who created REM Island itself!

We will be unveiling that hitherto unknown story as this Blog progresses.

As you may have noticed, we have changed part of the banner above to reflect the new direction in which our research has taken us.

It took decades to locate the true core of this investigation, and it turns out to be the same subject matter that is once again bubbling away in the news media under the heading of 'Climate Change' (and a variety of related titles.) But 'Saving the Planet' is not a topic that we will be engaging in, although, the underlying subject matter of that topic, is the same subject that is at the core of this research. Or narrowed down to our focal point: it is all about aspects of natural gas and the petroleum products derived from oil.

What seems to be overlooked in all of the anti-oil rhetoric, is that without oil our present civilized world would vanish overnight. So much of our daily life is dominated by oil and its derivatives, from the clothes we wear to the machines used to make them, and a lot of essential items that we use on a daily basis without giving a moment's thought to how they came to be. Without oil the human race would hurtle backwards in time to a very primitive existence where life spans would contract considerably.

In this regard, our marrying of offshore broadcasting (radio and television) to the topic of oil is because of their locations on the high seas. But to date, not enough attention has been paid to what was directly beneath those offshore stations.

Although governments reacted to the presence of those stations, only one of them demanded immediate physical capture, and that was the radio and television facility on REM Island located off the coast of Holland. (We are aware that in a few instances, ships had been boarded primarily due to nautical registration problems. REM Island was in a different category.)

In war it is often claimed that "amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics", and with regards to this investigation, it means that it is one thing to figure out the way in which you intend to do something, but if you lack the means to do it, you will fail. In World War II, this issue became acutely focused upon the need for Adolf Hitler's Armed Forces to capture oil fields in order for his military campaigns to succeed. He had the means to start a series of interlocking invasions of other nations, but he lacked the means to keep his armies moving ahead because they soon ran out of fuel. That is what happened to him in several instances, including his campaigns in North Africa and Eastern Europe. No matter how good the strategy of his generals was, without fuel, his planes and his tanks simply could not move, and neither could his men be transported to battle lines.

When it comes to the subject of offshore broadcasting in the North Sea, the issue is not about the records that rival DJs were playing on their turntables. We know that their 'strategy' was to capture the ears of as many listeners as possible in order to aim advertising messages at them. The real question is: why were the stations there in the first place?

It is this issue of misunderstood motivation that has convinced a lot of amateurs to imitate scenes in the movie 'Life of Brian'. That is where some go off brandishing a gourd and others a sandal, in order for followers to worship their Master. Translated into terms relating to offshore broadcasting, it refers to the people who claim that "Caroline continues" into 2021, when in reality, it died on August 14, 1967, never to return.

The sham imitators have all missed the entire reason why Radio Caroline was created in the first place: it was to test the reaction to its presence by the British government. Would the Government challenge its logistical location in the North Sea? It became obvious that it was one thing for a ship to drop anchor, but it was another thing for a tower to pile drive its legs into the sea floor. In the first instance an anchor was moveable, but in the second instance legs were fixed in place.

Radio stations were set up on old World War II towers off the British coast. The Government reacted by making sure that they were subject to existing British laws which required all British broadcasting stations to be licensed by the British Government. In one instance that required re-drawing the coastline to incorporate a location that had been outside government jurisdiction. In another instance they blew up an old fort to make sure that it could not be used for unlicensed broadcasting.

With regards to the sidebar issue of Rough Tower, that was a structure that the British Government had put in place as part of a WWII defense chain. Had its squatting primary occupant proceeded with any of his seemingly never-ending claims to both expanding that location and promising to use it for some enterprise that would directly challenge the sovereignty of British laws, then Rough Tower would have been physically taken over by the British Armed Forces and probably destroyed. As it was, at low enough cost to the British Government, sufficient counter warnings in private were addressed to the primary occupant and they were enough to deter him and any investors he attracted from attempting to put any of his various plans into operation.

What is totally overlooked by all of the amateur writers about Radio Caroline, is the fact that there was only one primary operating company behind both of its two floating ship stations, and that was Project Atlanta Limited. On the board of that company sat James Deterding who was always known as Jimmy to his friends.

Jimmy Deterding sat on the board of directors of Project Atlanta Limited in a very quiet manner, because he had no desire to attract attention to himself or his family. His grandfather Henri who had ordered the construction of the Norfolk mansion in which Jimmy lived, had attracted more than his share of family publicity.

Sir Henri Deterding who we will be telling you more about in future editions of this Blog, was the man who created Royal Dutch Shell. He was loved by Adolf Hitler because of Sir Henri's logistical support for Nazi ambitions, and consequently Sir Henri Deterding received a full Nazi State funeral ceremony upon his death.

Jimmy Deterding lived on his enormous estate near the village of Holt, which is a stone's throw from Bacton in Norfolk. That is where the coastline of southeastern England bulges out into the North Sea. It was offshore from that location where exploration to find 'British' natural gas and then petroleum fields began in the Sixties, with resources supplied by Texans, and it occurred approximately within the same time frame that plans for 'Radio Caroline' were being drawn up.

The operation off Bacton began in earnest from a rig that emanated from the same drawings which created REM island, and the first 'British' offshore exploration platform bore a remarkable resemblance to half of that earlier offshore broadcasting structure which was located off the coastline of Holland.

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There are so many sham commentators "out there" who have attacked this research, but the more we expose their lies, deceit and fraud, the quieter they have become. Now they are, at least for the moment, totally silent!

They name-call in abusive and childish ways, but when it comes to the facts in evidence as shown here, they have nothing to say.
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To be precise, the story begins with John D. Rockefeller and the revelation of Ida Tarbell, because the 'Plot' involves the story of oil. But, we are skipping ahead in this Blog version of our narrative and bypassing the invention, development and competition by broadcasters, even though that theme is a part of the underlying story behind the 1964 creation of 'Radio Caroline'.

However, this part of the story, which forms the basis of the 'Plot', begins much earlier than 1964, because it is actually a parallel story to the adventures of Captain Plugge and the development of pre-World War II commercial broadcasting in English from the European continent. But today we are not focusing upon Captain Plugge, but on Sir Henri Deterding, or to be more precise, his grandson.

Sir Henri built Kelling Hall just "down the road" from Bacton where the entire UK natural gas and offshore oil bonanza began off the coast of Norfolk. When Sir Henry died his son took over Kelling Hall, and then he died, and his son, Henri's grandson, moved in.

Now this is where the story really comes together, because in the Ian Cowper Ross wild-goose chase westward to Hindhead, which is just outside Haslemere, where he had anoraks all looking for "Jimmy", who was not there; they should have been directing their attention eastward to Norfolk. That is where they would have found the kind of person and the kind of place that Ian Cowper Ross described in his roman-a-clef 'Rocking the Boat'. But, none of this had to do with Ian's Dad who is named Charles, but it has everything to do with James Deterding who was always called Jimmy!

Oh, the games people play!

Trace back Jimmy Deterding's working life and all of the puzzle pieces suddenly fall into place.  You will you run into a profusion of printing and publishing businesses along with ITA independent television contractors. Indeed, the 'Mister Big' that Joceyln Stevens said did not exist, did exist! Oh yes he did, but he was not in Eastern Europe (as Jocelyn correctly stated on Granada TV), because 'Mister Big' was in Norfolk at Kelling Hall!

But those pieces of the puzzle that begin to fit together also include: Pye; 'Queen' magazine; Kitty Black; 'Radio Nord'; 'Radio Caroline'; REM island and even the original strain of Nazis - not those fake kids running around today - but the real SS Nazi members from the days of Auschwitz and the invasion of Poland. You know, that invasion that was really a joint venture with the Soviet Union, but which Neville Chamberlain blamed upon Hitler alone. Chamberlain and then Churchill went on a rant for causing Britain to declare war on Germany. You know, that 1939 act of madness which resulted in the death and maiming of so many British young men who went off to fight the Chamberlain-Churchill senseless war.

Senseless?

Yes, senseless, we want you to be incensed at the use of that word!

Our justification?

Simply this:  Nazi Germany did not have enough fuel for its tanks and planes to wage any major war and so they did a deal with Sir Henri Deterding and then Joe Stalin (before Hitler double-crossed him), because the name of the Hitler's war game was to lay his hands on enough petroleum products to make his lebensraum possible.

Well that is the game that Sir Henri Deterding was playing for Adolf Hitler, and it was the same reason that Jimmy Deterding came on to the board of directors of Project Atlanta Limited. The connection was the mv Fredericia anchored just off the coast of southeastern England with Simon Dee on board. The idea was to see how the British government would react in those halcyon days of the Wild West style rush to discover offshore natural gas and oil.

Back in the early Sixties offshore law and order did not exist. It was like the Wild West where "might make right" and first stakes count. There was no finer example of that kind of behavior than in the Lone Star State where Houston was becoming the commercial oil capital of the Western Word, and Fort Worth summed it all up in its motto: "Where the West Begins".

Now that you know who 'Jimmy' is, don't try to couple the bogus account of Ian Cowper Ross to Ronan O'Rahilly and Jimmy Deterding. That would merely become another work of fiction. It is why Ronan O'Rahilly was separated from Allan Crawford's Project Atlanta Limited and then assigned to the control of Jocelyn Stevens, after Jimmy Deterding joined the existing board of directors.

But there was only one working company: Project Atlanta Limited, and while Allan James Crawford may have been squeezed out, that company still called the shots! It never ran out of money, because it was drenched in money!

Ronan O'Rahilly knew little of the true story, but since Ian Cowper Ross seems to have been working under Jocelyn Stevens, there is reason to believe that Jocelyn Stevens was the person who set the myth-making-mind of Ian Cowper Ross in action.

Sorry Paul Rusling and all of the other plagiarists who stole our earlier research, you had no idea then what 'Radio Caroline' was all about, and until we began to reveal all here, you still didn't know. Your absurd books are proof of that!

I guess it's time for all swindled readers to demand their money back from these bogus authors, and for them to keep in mind the fact that you are getting the true story right here, right now: free of charge!

We spent decades, off and on, in the search to find the core to the story of offshore broadcasting. We do mean radio and television, because it is the television part of this story that ultimately unraveled "The 'Plot".

Oh yes, there was a 'Plot', and until we began to reveal it - within the context of  offshore broadcasting - no one else had revealed this 'Plot' to the public. In fact, our detractors have scoffed at us and claimed that there was no greater 'Plot' that no one knew about until now. Our critics are in for a rude awakening!

These folk have also mocked us by claiming that "no one is interested" - while they support activities peddling the old lies and distortions for financial gain. You are reading about it here, free of charge, contrary to the filching; twisting and vanity-prone ambitions of those who have previously befriended us. These people have stolen intellectual research from us in order to satisfy their own goal of promoting their own self-importance to gullible followers. By publishing it here, first, we are date-stamping our copyright claim.

While our detractors repeatedly scoffed at our research ambitions, in so doing they validated our claims to publishing unique information that directly contradicts the lies and misinformation published by others! This includes anoraks writing as both male and female (whether the same people under bogus names we don't know), who have decried our expose of the trio of conmen that includes Ronan O'Rahilly; Ian Cowper Ross and Christopher Moore.

We have been called "sick" for telling the truth about these people!

For decades we plodded down the same paths as everyone else until one day Steve England produced for sale a cassette recording about 'Swinging Radio England'. We played that tape to Don Pierson in his home and asked for his comments during an audio interview that we conducted. Then that interview became part of several broadcasts we made, and which you can still hear on Mixcloud at: https://www.mixcloud.com/mervyn-hagger/4fws-march-10-1985-rebuttal-of-the-tapetrix-radio-england-story-about-don-pierson/

Don Pierson then gave us his collection of financial and legal documents relating to his creation of 'Radio London'; 'Radio England' and 'Britain Radio'.

When Steve England heard our rebuttal broadcasts featuring the voice of Don Pierson, Steve England issued a second edition of his commercial cassette which acknowledged that when he made his recording, he did not know what Don Pierson had revealed. Don Pierson proved that Johnnie Walker and others had lied about Don Pierson, and even ridiculed him. They did not knowing that their words would one day be heard by, and then responded to, by Don Pierson himself!

Again, it was the vanity issue that jerked the rug from underneath Johnnie Walker who had mocked Don Pierson in Steve England's commercial recording!

Then came discovery that all was not true with the accounts given by Ronan O'Rahilly under the pen of Ian Cowper Ross - which were both published and then broadcast by many licensed UK stations, including those operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. All of that came to a head when we read page 276 of the IEE book 'Radio Man'.

That book about the life of Charles Orr Stanley and his son John who both managed the Pye Group of companies, caused us to embark upon a new round of discovery in 2014, after a scheduled speech at the Communications Museum at Burntisland in Scotland. But it then took many more years for us to finally uncover the real 'key' that unlocks the door to the mystery about the 1964 creation of 'Radio Caroline', and why in 1967 it was given a death sentence.

While Tony Benn has been vilified in the press and in a movie as being the person who set out to kill-off offshore radio, enquiring minds should have been looking into what his American-born wife and British Crown civil servants were actually saying and doing, because to them, Tony Benn was merely their puppet on strings.

Now that our further research has been published elsewhere within the last few days, and in so doing has firmly established the legal requirements for our own copyright claims, we can begin to identify the real core of this story in greater detail.

We alluded to the 'Plot' yesterday, but in future editions we will amplify it here, prior to releasing it in commercial book format. You of course are reading this free of charge - as a public service in the public interest of further education and enlightenment - about a yesterday that really did happen!

Forget the trio of 'useful idiots' who spread fanciful silly stories to the media which they picked-up and presented as 'news'. It is not Ronan O'Rahilly, Ian Cowper Ross and Christopher Moore who are keys to understanding how and why Radio Caroline came on the air in 1964, the person you should know about is this man: James Deterding.

Who is James Deterding? He is the grandson of the man looking down on him from a portrait hanging on his wall.

His name is Sir Henri Deterding.

In 1913, Henri Deterding  commissioned the building of Kelling Hall in Norfolk. Originally it occupied 1,600 acres, and Kelling Hall became home of Henri's son, and then his  grandson James.

His grandfather was the primary mover and shaker behind the creation of Royal Dutch Shell, and after becoming an ardent supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, Henri helped to fuel those German tanks that raced across occupied Nazi Europe, and those German planes that bombed the British Isles.

The story of oil is not only the story behind the militaristic rise of the Nazi Party, but it is also the backbone to the story about World War II.

James Deterding climbed onto the board of directors of Project Atlanta Limited after it had been formed, and contrary to all of the nonsense spun by people like Paul Rusling in his 'Radio Caroline Bible', it was from Project Atlanta Limited that both Radio Atlanta and Radio Caroline were born.

But why was James Deterding on the board of directors that controlled two 'pirate' radio stations?

To find the answer to that question you have to find the story behind the rush to exploit North Sea oil and natural gas. All of the other issues are sidebar issues. This is why we were stopped dead in our tracks back in 2014 after reading the book 'Radio Man' concerning the involvement in Radio Caroline by Charles Orr Stanley and his son John, both of whom managed the Pye Group of companies.

We also researched Jocelyn Stevens and all of his printing and publishing associates, but the key to the entire offshore broadcasting story of the Nineteen Sixties was the search for and development of North Sea oil and natural gas. Now we are talking about real money; serious money; big money relating to substances that make modern life possible.

Oil doesn't just fuel engines, it also has derivates that allow for the manufacture of many products used by humanity in everyday life. See our previous Blog entry at:  ​https://www.yesternoir.org/caroline-brooks-blog/in-the-beginning-there-was-oil