Prince Charles explains 'pebble theatre'.
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Don Pierson [right] explains how a young Prince Charles made a request to join the Radio London fan club. |
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Prince Charles explains 'pebble theatre'.
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Don Pierson [right] explains how a young Prince Charles made a request to join the Radio London fan club. |
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I hope to add additional information today, but I have just amended yesterday's blog with some very important key information. If you read it yesterday, please read it again and very carefully today.
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According to Alan Bednall, there was a "top secret" and "new corporate entity" behind the creation of Radio Caroline in 1964, but unfortunately, Nicholas Stanley did not take down the name of that "new corporate entity'! Caveat: today is 4/10/2020, or April 10, 2020 or 10/4/2020, depending whether you are writing in American English or British English, and that is where what some would deem to be tedious "hair-splitting" of this very complex matter, comes into play. If it is repetitious and infinitely precise to you, keep in mind that what I am writing is an account where foundations for evidence must be laid down, so that there are no leaps of information that raise more questions than they provide answers. But if the actual recorded words of what Alan Bednall is alleged to have used in his home in Barton, while talking to Nicholas Stanley are not closely examined under a 'media-microscope', then key and complex matters are totally passed over. They are not observed and therefore they are not seen to be examined and if not examined they are not understood. This in essence is the key to solving the Radio Caroline mystery about its point of origination. Because it is now obvious that for whatever his reason, the interview notes that Nicholas Stanley wrote down, but according to Alan Bednall's daughter were never shown to Alan Bednall, then we really don't know whether the notes that Nicholas Stanley took down represent what Alan Bednall told Nicholas Stanley, or whether they represent the abridged, redacted words of Alan Bednall. You may well ask, "why is that important?" Well, how do we know that Alan Bednall did not name and identify the ".... company manufacturing radio equipment." That company existed, it was not 'fictitious' as it says on page 276 of 'Radio Man'. How do we know that it existed and that it was not "fictitious" as it says on page 276? We know that this is NOT what Alan Bednall said. He never used the word "fictitious" and neither did he imply that the company did not exist. He may well have mentioned its name to Nicholas Stanley, but Nicholas Stanley did not write it down! Furthermore, we know from Alan Bednall's daughter Jane that Nicholas Stanley did not let Alan Bednall see his notes. We also know that Alan Bednall was a designer under contract to Pye. He was NOT a lawyer. Alan Bednall was NOT in the business of creating and registering new companies. Again, you may well ask: "Why does that matter?" It matters because it is the key to unlocking this mystery about who created Radio Caroline, and why did they create it? John Stanley (Nicholas' father) asked Alan Bednall ".... to create from scratch an entire new corporate entity ...." My focus yesterday should have been on the word 'entity' which I changed to 'identity', and which I have now self-corrected, because the words 'entity' and 'identity', while being related nouns, have slightly different definitions: ENTITY is "a thing with distinct and independent existence." IDENTITY is "the fact of being who or what a person or thing is." The difference in this particular context of the Nicholas Stanley interview, is that the ".... company manufacturing radio equipment" existed as an entity, but what John Stanley asked Alan Bednall ".... to create from scratch ...." was a new identity for the existing company. Now back to the text I wrote yesterday ... Whether Nicholas Stanley went to Alan Bednall's home in the village of Barton (just outside Cambridge), knowing full-well that he could never repeat in print what Alan Bednall was about to tell him, we don't know. What we do know for a fact is that whatever document Mark Frankland was shown in order to write 'Radio Man', he cannot have seen the original interview document that Nicholas Stanley created on 25/9/97, (25 September 1997), because the two versions of the story are so different. The one that appears in the book, contradicts known facts in evidence. Those known facts involve the identity of the equipment that was installed on the mv Caroline, ex-mv Fredericia. But more than this, if Alan Bednall did mention the name of the "new corporate entity", Nicholas Stanley did not take it down in writing, because it is not in his statement. If you refer back to the comments by Jane Bednall, Alan Bednall's daughter, it seems that Nicholas Stanley did not even show Alan Bednall what he had "taken down in writing" at his home! The IEE book 'Radio Man' purports to be more of a biography about the life of Nicholas' grandfather Charles Orr Stanley, than it does to pretend that it is a history of the Pye Group of Companies, or even a biography of Nicholas' father John Stanley. There is a registered UK charity that is attempting to recreate a history of the Pye Group of companies with a virtual 'museum' Online. But their research is slow going, and one reason being is that it is so time consuming and expensive to recreate that history. But there may be another reason why the virtual Pye Museum Trust (The Story of Pye: 1896 to 2020) at http://www.pyemuseum.org/pages/sitemenu/contact.php?LMCL=XhC_Xu is having their own difficulties in gathering and documenting information. It would appear that in the instance of the IEE book 'Radio Man' that it was decided by someone, that certain information should remain undocumented, or even misquoted and obfuscated. Such is the story of Radio Caroline (1964-1967). But why is that? While the childish and cultist true believers who seem to worship the ground that Ronan O'Rahilly once walked upon, also deny that he has had any practical connection to what they are doing today, they do not want the real story about Radio Caroline (1964-1967) to be revealed. We can all see why. Paul Rusling made that clear in his 'bible', which attempts to link Radio Caroline of 1964 with a totally unrelated tiny venture that calls itself 'Radio Caroline' today. Rusling has twisted stolen information into a 'square peg' which he then hammers by repetition into a 'round hole'. That is why 'The Trio' want nothing to do with Rusling's book, But are there more sinister interests that are still at large, who continue to demand the protection of anonymity? 'The Trio' believe that there are, and 'The Trio' also believe that they have found some of them! In fact, it does not take long to find some of them once the proper trail is identified, but it is the finding of that trail that does take time. If we revisit the true statement by Alan Bednall and notice what he did say, and avoid what he did not say, we discover that John Stanley told Alan Bednall ".... to create from scratch an entire new corporate entity ...." Note that Stanley does not tell Bednall to create a new company. That was not Bednall's job. He was a designer, and not a lawyer. John Stanley told Alan Bednall to create "from scratch and entire new corporate entity ..." John Stanley does not say that Bednall should incorporate a new company, but that he should give "a company manufacturing radio equipment" - "an entire new corporate entity". In less clumsy wordage it might have been better to use the substitute word "identity" instead. But 'The Trio' have tracked down a Pye company fitting this description, and more. To put together the other clues it is necessary to follow the lives of two key engineers who worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation and then retired. At least one of them retired in 1959, and he was the most senior of BBC engineers with an esteemed career in the UK that goes all the way back to the 1930s. Then this man went to work for Pye, and furthermore, he also went to work on offshore radio! That is a fact that is documented in a BBC publication by a former BBC colleague! Now we know from many sources that this same engineer also worked on the early stages of VRON (Radio Veronica) when it was associated with CNBC - Commercial Neutral Broadcasting Company. We also know that he became very involved with the former lightship that became the home of GBOK. We know that the GPO were not only following that venture, but that they raided it. However, it is where that raid took place and where that former lightship called 'Lady Dixon' ended up, that is most important, because it was at a wharf adjoining a disguised Pye company! When the GBOK project crashed it had a valuable contract for broadcasting time that had been entered into with the agent for Herbert W. Armstrong. This agent had ties to several CIA radio stations in various parts of the world, and to the placement of religious programs such as the 'Lutheran Hour' ("Bringing Christ to the Nations"), and "The Hour of Decision" by Billy Graham who started his reincarnation with "Crusades" at the close of WWII in London! But the GBOK project was the outgrowth of the smaller 'Voice of Slough' radio project which is where the Armstrong contract began. However, GBOK then elbowed out the smaller project and tried to get on the air under its own name. But it was poorly managed and run by a con man named Arnold Swanson who suddenly bolted from the UK, and was later arrested in Canada and charged with engaging in sex with underage girls. His heiress wife who had the money (not her husband), then divorced Swanson and he went to prison! GBOK was finished. The 'Voice of Slough' was then briefly revived by Swanson's former partner, but it fizzled out before later reemerging as part of the operation on Shivering Sands known as 'KING Radio'. Meanwhile Allan Crawford was not getting anywhere with his Radio Atlanta project that first came to life in 1962, but it was not until Pye, or rather John Stanley jumped in, that the remnants of GBOK were joined with Crawford's venture at 47 Dean Street, when things began to move. Crawford's original demise took place in 1962 when his prime investor pulled out due to a panic attack resulting from an unrelated affair concerning a venture using the name 'Radio Mercur', (which was not a part of the original venture by that name.) This is where John Stanley of Pye rode in to the rescue. But there is a lot more to this. Behind the financing of the Pye venture were people connected to Associated Newspapers ('Daily Mail') and a giant printing conglomerate that Jocelyn Stevens became involved with. The Radio Caroline project began around September-October 1963, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, helped to speed things up for Crawford. In the early part of 1964, before Planet Productions Ltd was formed during late February that year in Ireland (to sell Radio Caroline air time), the former BBC-GBOK engineer met with a Wijsmuller's representative and Harry Spencer who designed the masts for both the mv Caroline and mv Mi Amigo. The antennas themselves were designed by the second ex-BBC engineer and partner to the retired ex-BBC-GBOK engineer, and they all met at Allan Crawford's office and studio located at 47 Dean Street. Ronan O'Rahilly was also there, but Arthur Carrington, a decoy TV camera specialist, was not there.! So now you want to know names! Who were these ex-BBC men and where was this Pye company and what was its name and history. To learn the answers to those questions and many others, you will have to wait for the next episode tomorrow. But I guarantee that what you will learn is not in Rusling's book! I have just added [see masthead above] a compacted graphic of Paul Rusling's original 'Acknowledgement' section which someone in Scandinavia sent to a member of 'The Trio'. I have to use this term because the trolls out there want to focus on one person. That is what Paul Rusling did in the original flyer promoting his 'bible' that is dated 9-21-2019. Over on the 'Free Radio Forum', this item appeared about Rusling's 'bible': "Posted by Admin on 19/9/2019, 20:14:16:
So once again on 21/9/2019, their Admin reproduced the original list of credits before it was deleted and then that particular thread went on an on and on. (These dates using the English day/month version, are somewhat of a bewildering mess because new posts have been inserted after old posts, and they in turn have then been followed by more old posts.) As soon as Rusling's original flyer was brought to the attention of the person who he named, that person sent Paul Rusling an immediate demand to remove his name from his 'Acknowledgements'. It was that flyer that first brought Rusling's 'bible' to the attention of 'The Trio'. Then, denying that he was printing-on-demand, Rusling sent out advance printed pages featuring Oonagh Leigh, who Rusling claimed had validated the 'Jimmy' myth, and therefore validated Ronan O'Rahilly. Of course Oonagh Leigh did no such thing. She did give some information to Rusling which he then used, and due to his lack of research, that information is also wrong but it appears in his revised book. However, the 'Jimmy' myth began much later and was the work of Ian Cowper Ross. It is totally untrue! Clearly, unless you are picking up and preserving litter with the names of 'Radio Caroline' coupled with 'Ronan O'Rahilly' printed on it, you should ask (demand) that Paul Rusling refunds your money from his do-it-himself publishing operation. Mr Rusling has clearly taken your money under false pretenses. You will learn more here FREE of charge about the start of Radio Caroline in 1964, than you will in Rusling's 'bible', even though Rusling lifted (stole) a lot of his information from the 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter. An added bonus! You are reading and will continue to read some information that has NEVER been revealed before by anyone: until now! And to think, I am not asking you to join anything; support anything, or donate anything to learn all this. True I am working with a commercial publisher, but the completion date for that project is still in the future, but you have access to this information right now, free of charge! PYE AND ALAN BEDNALL ... These revelations will continue tomorrow.
A QUICK NOTE: "Bernie Holmes" is just one of many names that continually pop-up in the posts-for-approval box marked for the 'Comments' section of my blog. The person who is currently using this identity has used other pen names in the past; may well be using others right now, and probably will have many more in the future. This seems to be a hobby for this person who posts on various Internet Forums under that name. To me "Bernie Holmes" is somewhat akin to a Texas roach. You try to get rid of it as quickly as possible, because like roaches they breed and leave dirty stains behind them.
The reason for such persons posting comments to this blog, is not to add to any form of understanding of the subject under discussion, but to try to implant dirty stains on the work that will annoy readers. They represent the Rusling-Smith response to this blog wherein they attack me personally; or they try to link me to someone else; or they try to imply that 'The Trio' does not exist. None of that explains how and why I have been able to reveal information that Rusling and Smith wish to remain hidden, and which no other writer (outside of 'The Trio') has previously published. Clearly I have not personally researched the information on my blog, I am just reporting what I have been given access to by 'The Trio' who have previously made broadcasts; written features for the press, and written articles published by academic journals, some of which has been previously published in book form. The supporters of Rusling-Smith seem to think that they can both steal (plagiarize) work by 'The Trio' and then twist it to support their own confidence game which tries to create the myth that Radio Caroline did not die on August 14, 1967, but it did. Its 'corpse' (the two radio ships), hung around until March 3, 1968 when they were suddenly towed away because they lacked insurance and they had become a financial and legal liability for the Dutch company which had been servicing them. If you wish to comment on this blog I am very happy to receive and read your words about the content that you have read here, and I will post them Online. If on the other hand your aim is to post immature graffitti that has no connection to the subject matter and cannot possibly enlighten anyone, then it will be immediately deleted - before it ever appears on this site. Later today I intend to post another substantive account relating to Pye and Bednall as their activities related to the start of Radio Caroline (1964-1967). Today's blog actually picks up on my blog of 3/31/2020 - "Looking for 'key words' in boxes of words", and this paragraph: "If you will recall (or refer to yesterday's blog), this mystery began when Nicholas Stanley (who had commissioned the book for a 'mere' £92,355), could not explain the source of the information in that one paragraph on page 276. He was also extremely hazy, because this event had taken place years before. He was also unsure how the information had been obtained, but he thought that the source was an 'engineer' named Hill, but he did know where this 'Mr Hill' could be located, or even if he was still alive." Now look back to yesterday and this entry: "On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 1:21 PM, 'The Trio' received this follow-up message from their associate:
Now refresh your memory with these words by Harry McGhee which we reprinted on 4/2/2020 in "Wroughton has its secrets ..." Clearly, if this statement is true, and I have no reason to doubt its authenticity, then John Stanley had a 'compartmentalized' life! People in one 'compartment' like Harry McGee did not know that there even was another 'compartment' dealing with exactly the same issues! Now apart from top secret military projects where "need-to-know" is the order of the day, in case someone accidentally betrayed a secret, this kind of approach to business is highly unusual to say the least! Why was Harry McGhee "kept-out-of-the-loop" when he was apparently working on the same overall plan to introduce land-based; licensed; sponsored commercial radio, into the British Isles via the Isle of Man? Did Harry McGee even know about the link to the project created in 1959 by Geoffrey Hirst, MP and called Radio Yorkshire (Development) Company Ltd.? He certainly knew nothing about the plan being worked on by Alan Bednall and John Stanley! However, Nicholas Stanley knew, because this is what our associate found at Wroughton: It is the contract written in 1997 by Nicholas Stanley personally when he visited Alan Bednall at his home at the village of Barton, which is just outside of Cambridge where Pye had its head office back in 1964! Clearly Nicholas Stanley did not want us to know that he was personally responsible for the text that appears on page 276, because this is what the associate of 'The Trio' wrote on Friday, March 17, 2017 after he found Nicholas Stanley's 'Contact Report':
As you read the words to your right, remember the key words in that lone paragraph on page 276 of 'Radio Man': ... "a fictitious radio manufacturing company" ... "everything Pye made for Caroline was stamped with the logo of the nonexistent manufacturer." Again, those key words are: "fictitious"; "manufacturing"; "made" and "nonexistent manufacturer." Where are they in the original interview that was conducted personally by Nicholas Stanley? They are not there! Compare the texts for yourself: If we just took the text that appears on page 276 and removed those key words: "fictitious"; "manufacturing"; "made" and "nonexistent manufacturer", and then replaced them with words about an unnamed company that was not obviously controlled by the Pye Group, but that Pye both paid for, and supplied everything that Radio Caroline required, we end up with a totally different version of this story. In fact, that is exactly what took place, and 'The Trio' then came to learn the name of that obscure radio manufacturing company; its location and its association with the engineers that Pye employed to put the Radio Caroline project together! Furthermore, although that company did manufacture radio equipment, it was not the kind of radio equipment that you would associate with broadcasting, but since that company supplied everything but did not manufacture anything for Radio Caroline, it was relatively easy to keep things quiet. But even so, this operation was in itself somewhat blatant because it had already attracted the attention of the GPO who had raided the area it was located in while looking for an illegal (unlicenced) radio transmitter, albeit one that had not started broadcasting transmissions! Alan Bednall was the 'man in the middle' who stood between the flailing and subsequently failing attempts by Allan Crawford to get his record-related radio venture off the ground with the help of Oliver Smedley, and the well-connected Establishment world of Joceyln Stevens who represented a world of newspapers and printers who 'stage managed' by John Stanley to get Radio Caroline, and thus Radio Atlanta, on the air. Tomorrow I will continue with this theme by identifying the mystery company and revealing the engineering connections as well. It is a sad thing when so many hack writers who are so vain-glorious that they just want to see their own names in print, don't care what they write, or whose research they steal, and worst of all they twist the facts to compose their own fake recital. Paul Rusling has done this, but so did Nicholas Stanley. But while Rusling's intention is to boost a tiny and insignificant little radio station that calls itself "Radio Caroline", it seems that Nicholas Stanley felt that for political reasons the true story about Pye and its connections to the real Radio Caroline (1964-1967) still cannot be told. That is, until now. Don't forget, I will be condensing all of this and expanding its subject matter in a new book as well. I will let you know how this is progressing a little later on. [One paragraph of text modified by Copy Editor for readability on 4/9/2020.]
Today, you will need to go back in my blog to pick-up the beginning of this thread, since this one is all about our discovery at Wroughton, near Reading, England. I keep getting silly comments (which I delete) from people who are obviously on the receiving-end of this 'expose by review', and one of them today asked about "the many incarnations of Radio Caroline". Of course there have been NO "incarnations of Radio Caroline" and that is one of the main premises of my blog! This seems to point to the fact that those who are hostile to the true story about Radio Caroline being revealed for the very first time, appear to follow their 'leader' Paul Rusling who admits that he does not read history books or perform his own original research. This results in silly questions being raised by people don't read the blog. Those comments are deleted before being posted in the Comments section. I mention this because I am now asking readers of this blog to go back and pick-up the thread that began with the lecture at Burntisland in 2014, and that is not the easiest thing to do with a blog. However, the references are still available if you care to go back and look for them. I suppose that if I numbered each of the near-daily entries this would be a much easier task for readers to accomplish, and I may go back and perform that task. However, I am working on a book version of this blog and that will also help to provide easier referencing, but finishing that book is a task running parallel to this blog, albeit on a different and delayed time frame. Meanwhile, we once more turn our attention to this lone paragraph on page 276 of the book 'Radio Man'. I ask you to take note of the references to the planned start of Radio Caroline in 1964, by Charles Orr Stanley and his son John Stanley. This was not so much a plan set in motion by the Pye Group of companies, as you will soon discover, but a devious operation that was created by Charles Orr Stanley and John Stanley using facilities of the Pye Group of companies. There is a big difference, because the actual board of directors of the Pye Group of companies were not aware of what Charles Orr Stanley and John Stanley were planning. I have already confirmed this by reproducing the words of Harry McGee from a BBC Radio 3 broadcast script that was written some years ago. If you will recall, it is this one section within that single paragraph that caused all of the problems. More than this, it was the use of specific words within this section which contradicted known facts about the equipment on board the mv Caroline (ex-Fredericia). So once more, let us take a closer look at those words: "a fictitious radio manufacturing company", and "everything Pye made for Caroline was stamped with the logo of the nonexistent manufacturer." The key words under scrutiny are: "fictitious"; "manufacturing"; "made" and "nonexistent manufacturer." Keep them in mind as we recreate some of the steps (there were a lot more than these), that 'The Trio' with the help and assistance of one very important person. He undertook the physical legwork at Wroughton, as well as the physical search for an explanation. The Museum at Bradford, which is tied to the Science Museum in London, was given custody of the new Stanley Foundation collection. If you will recall it was assembled by Nicholas Stanley in memory of his father and grandfather. This new collection of original documents was gathered from copies held outside the main collection which had allegedly been destroyed by the Philips company, when that company absorbed Pye and destroyed its head office archives held in Cambridge, England. Nicholas Stanley also commissioned the 2002 book 'Radio Man' upon which his new Stanley Foundation spent £92,355 on research. The Stanley Foundation also employed journalist Mark Frankland as its author; Gordon Bussey to assist with technical guidance, and engaged with the prestigious IEE as publisher. [Caveat: What you are about to read are the email exchanges relating to information known or believed to be true at the time that they were written, and which subsequently became modified by additions, deletions and amendments. The 'bullets' are additions to indicate the various paragraphs in the emails, although they did not appear in the original emails.] On August 5, 2015 at 2:32 PM, the following email was sent on behalf of 'The Trio' to Rebecca Smith at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England.
On August 6, 2015 at 10:48 AM, this reply was received from [name redacted] on behalf of the National Media Museum at Bradford, England.
On August 6, 2015 at 11:56 AM, this email was sent in response:
Then, when nothing more was heard from the National Media Museum for months, 'The Trio' resumed contact with the Museum, and that resulted in this email from Michael Terwey who represented senior management at the Museum. It is dated November 18, 2015 at 8:20 AM:
'The Trio' responded on November 18, 2015 at 12:26 PM:
Unfortunately nothing more transpired until 2017. On February 22, 2017, 'The Trio' received this notification from their associate:
On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 1:21 PM, 'The Trio' received this follow-up message from their associate:
Well, that's where I am ending today's blog, so if you want to know what was discovered, you need to come back tomorrow when I will show you and answer a lot of questions relating to it.
See you tomorrow. Oh, by the way, like everyone else who has had their life uprooted, upended and sent into a time warp, I obviously had to leave DC and move back to Texas. My uncle in Scotland (Texas) has (had?) a large antiques business with an apartment attached in a small town southeast of Dallas. He loaded me up with books and movies and of course my computer which he piled into the extended cab of my pick up. Now I am waiting to see when this Crisis ends, but in the meantime I am watching out for my uncle's business. I can't wait until we can all socially mix again, but thankfully where I am is big enough for access to major stores and I also have access to a lot of open spaces. In the meantime I have opened a Facebook page, so I might see you there as well. Today I updated the heading. I have also been sifting through the Wroughton timeline of correspondence and I should be able to add this to the blog tomorrow.
Yesterday I told you that Radio Caroline is really the descendant of GBOK, and not a spin-off from Radio Atlanta. You were told to follow the Atlanta ruse by a series of magicians who instead of using a pretty girl on their stage, they use a flamboyant and very young Irishman who could spin yarns and get people to believe him. His name is Ronan O'Rahilly. While Ronan O'Rahilly was indeed just a 'decoy duck' as one MP called him, he was very successful in his job that he was hired and paid to do. Millions believed him then, and to this day, gullible con men like Paul Rusling are trying to get you to believe this same fable. But the more you cling on to this idiotic illusion, the less likely it is that you will understand how and why Charles Orr Stanley and his son John Stanley fooled the world, and still lost! Now it is not as if Paul Rusling does not know what he is doing in selling his 'bible' to the true believers in the mythology that 'Caroline continues' on behalf of Malcolm Smith's tiny land-based community radio station, because he does. Rusling is in what amounts to a co-venture. He has written a book with one aim, and that is to link the past to the present in order to promote Malcolm Smith's enterprise, and in turn, Malcolm Smith is promoting Paul Rusling's self-published books; including his 'bible'. However, in order to cling on to the myths involving O'Rahilly, Paul Rusling had to cling on to the fake script that was invented by Ian Cowper Ross. 'The Trio' know all about Ian Cowper Ross because they hired a licensed private investigator to find out who he really is, and that began with discovering his true identity. There was one way to do this with certainty, and because 'The Trio' were working backwards in time, and so they followed a clue that Ian Cowper Ross gave to the world, but which the world has overlooked. By overlooking that clue, Ian Cowper Ross was able to write a work of fiction that had a vague footing in the real world. His book is called 'Rocking the boat' and it was published by Heinemann in 1990 with the backing of his aristocratic mother-in-law. In that book is the source of the 'latest version' of the Rusling tale of fiction concerning Ian Cowper Ross. It begins on Rusling's page 48 (softback edition) under this fictitious heading: "Ronan's own radio ship project", which is a lie, since back in the early Sixties when Radio Caroline began, it was not "Ronan's own radio ship project". What Rusling attributes to O'Rahilly, is really the GBOK operation merged with the Radio Atlanta operation into the Radio Caroline operation as created by Charles Orr Stanley and John Stanley of the Pye Group. To understand any of this it is necessary to purge the bilge that Rusling has laid out on his pages wherein he sets up a false premise and then follows it through. But it really was not until 1990 that it became necessary to put together the current mythology about Radio Caroline, because that is when the sea-faring days of offshore radio stations which adopted the name of 'Radio Caroline' had come and gone for the very last time. The person who invented this mythology in 1990 was Ian Cowper Ross, with a lot of financial help from his aristocratic and wealthy mother-in-law. I will come back to this lady and to Ian Cowper Ross' birth father a little later in great detail. But to keep this thread as understandable as possible, for now, I will avoid information that is not pertinent to current aspects of this thread. If you turn to Rusling's page 48 (softback edition), you will begin to find a story by Ronan O'Rahilly that continues until it reaches these words on page 50: "I didn't mind rubbing shoulders with the nobs, as they were giving me all the money for this." (sic) Ronan O'Rahilly is then quoted as saying: "Money always comes to other money, simply giving the impression of wealth was convincing enough...." Following on to the next page of Rusling's book on page 51 (softback edition), is this heading: 'The Ross Family'. It is here that Rusling begins to seriously dip into the 1990 work of fiction by Ian Cowper Ross called 'Rocking the boat'. In that recital beginning on page 9, Ronan O'Rahilly who is loosely disguised as 'Liam O'Mahoney', is introduced to Ian Cowper Ross, who is loosely disguised as 'Paul Shaw', by a club dj called 'Johnny Meadows', who is a loosely disguised version of Christopher Moore. 'Rocking the boat' is also very loosely based upon historical events (but they are disguised in such a way that fact has been drowned by fiction). Beginning on page 7 of that same book we read that: 'Meadows' [Moore] introduces 'Paul Shaw' [Ian Cowper Ross] to O'Mahoney' [O'Rahilly] at the "....Kenya Coffee Bar, the last stop on the KIng's Road for any self-respecting face [Mod], before Sloane Square and the Belgravia straights." 'Shaw' [Ross] is first greeted by 'O'Mahoney' [O'Rahilly] on page 9, with: "Hi. Howareya? What's happenin'? Howsitgoin'?" 'Shaw' [Ross] comments: "The uncoolness confused me, the nondescript clothing too. Later I leaned that he was so cool that clothing didn't count." .... "O'Mahoney had the power of a Svengali. His values were all upside down from mine. I was a bumkin in his presence." In real life, Ross was the product of a Public School education, which for U.S. readers means an expensive and very old private school to which only the wealthy and well-connected sent their children. Continuing on page 9 of 'Rocking the boat', Ross reverts to actual (true) place names for a description of his parents' home situated: ".... in the no man's land between Hindhead and Haselmere ...." In fact, the house was closer to Hindhead than Haselmere in Surrey, England. To approach the house it is necessary to enter a private driveway leading off the public road. The entire area was and is surrounded by trees known as Reynardswood. Once at their destination, the tale contained in this work of fiction continues on page 10 with 'O'Mahoney' commanding 'Shaw' on how to pitch a plan to his father: "That's the scene, baby! Remember - heavy heavy bread!' But this is where fiction became so ingrained in the telling of a bogus story, that a name entered the story-line and stuck! It is this same name which later required Ian Cowper Ross to explain it away by claiming that O'Rahilly was just an uncouth loudmouth who had such charm that he could get away with saying anything to anyone he just met, even when they were many more years his senior and well connected. That in itself takes quite a lot of gullibility to believe that it was possible in England during the dawn of the still stiff-upper-lip Sixties, where every person was supposed to "know their place" and behave according to their station in life. What we are asked to believe in that class-conscious England, is that this applied to everyone except Ronan O'Rahilly, who being of Irish ancestry would have caused many in the British Establishment of those days as being a first strike against acceptance into 'proper' Society. Yet these are the people of 'proper Society' in the British Establishment, that we are discussing. In the novel by Ian Cowper Ross which Paul Rusling is obviously relying upon, it is more than likely that Rusling's version comes second-hand, since Rusling does not read books, nor does he perform original research. In the early days of the 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter, the subject of Ian Cowper Ross' book was covered extensively when 'The Trio' tried to make sense of it. Rusling received, read and commented upon those newsletters in his emails! Because this book by Ian Cowper Ross is a work of fiction, and because Ross has used cover names for himself; Christopher Moore, and Ronan O'Rahilly; Ian Cowper Ross followed this same pattern by giving his own father a fictitious first name of 'Jimmy', but he did not give him a last name. Since Ian Cowper Ross renamed himself 'Paul Shaw' in his book, it is logical that his father became 'Mr Shaw', and therefore his first name being 'Jimmy', he then became 'Jimmy Shaw'. For many years there did not seem to be a known source of funding for Radio Caroline, while Radio Atlanta appeared to have a transparent accountancy. But the document that later appeared in the National Archives which was written as an investigative report for the BBC Director General back in 1964, had yet to be put into public circulation. Rusling makes a passing reference to this document on page 87 (softback edition), but again, he does comprehend its meaning and so his interpretation is ridiculous. It is because of the cloak of silence and misdirection that was deliberately created by Pye; that writers such as Ian Cowper Ross thought that by 1990 they had free reign to invent a story that would fill the gap. Suddenly the myth of 'Jimmy Ross' was born in the book 'Rocking the boat'. On page 15 the character of 'Jimmy Shaw' is addressed by 'Paul Shaw's' mother, who was not been given a first name: "Wherever are you going, Jim, in the middle of dinner?" Now 'Jimmy Shaw' has become 'Jim Shaw', husband of 'Paul Shaw's' mother! 'Jim Shaw' responded to his (unnamed) wife: "I just need to ring a few people up." She responded: "They'll probably be eating too, dear. Who were you thinking of?" 'Jim Shaw' responded: "Never mind who, .... just Jeremy Hammond and one or two others." This book acually uses semi-correct names such as 'Georgio Gomalsky' [Giorgio Gomelsky], and places such as the 'Crawdaddy Club' and the 'Flamingo'. But on page 31 we come to this description of 'Jeremy Hammond' by Ian Cowper Ross [as Paul Shaw]: "We were sitting around among the rubber plants and glossy magazines in Jeremy's office at J. W. Hammond and Partners, Advertising Agents. There were, in fact, no partners. Jeremy had a preference for autocracy." For what ever his reason we don't know, but 'Hammond Advertising' is another to disguise the publishing operations of Jocelyn Stevens. Prior to that event on page 31, readers are told on page 16 and continuing, that the meeting with 'Jim' or 'Jimmy Shaw' resulted in this information: "We got the money in cash. First there was a cheque for the full amount £210,000. John and Liam and I went to the bank. .... 'Yes, but' - thinking of my father, whose signature was scrawled offhandedly on the bottom of the cheque - 'won't people think it odd? I mean, drawing it all out at once in cash?' .... Suddenly there it was, stacked like packs of playing cards in the black case which Liam had provided for the convenience of the bank. .... Our first corporate investment turned out to be the complete refurbishment of my flat. We went straight there from the bank." So now we learn that 'Jim Shaw' who is supposed to be Charles Edward Ross in real life, wrote out a cheque for £210,000 and handed it to Liam O'Mahoney who is supposed to be Ronan O'Rahilly. The cheque came with no strings attached, and therefore it was promptly cashed and O'Rahilly began to squander the cash on many things unrelated to an offshore radio station project. This absurd tale has also been picked up and embellished on public forums such as Wikipedia, and from there the story has spread like wildfire. 'Wikipedia' maintains this entry under the heading of 'Radio Caroline': "Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl 'Jimmy' Ross of Ross Foods, and Jocelyn Stevens of 'Queen' magazine with which Radio Caroline shared its first office." That one paragraph in Wikipedia is proof-positive why Wikipedia is the most unreliable and misleading source of all information about everything! Yet this nonsense appears to come with references, but its references do not support the actual text! How did the fake story about 'Jim' or 'Jimmy Shaw who is supposedly Charles Edward Ross and father of Ian Cowper Ross, suddenly become "Carl 'Jimmy' Ross of Ross Foods"? The answer is guesswork. Since Ian Cowper Ross was unwilling to talk or write about his father, the anorak fans of Radio Caroline began filling in blanks. They surmised that since Jimmy Ross had money, he must be a prominent person, and so they began searching for anyone named 'Jimmy Ross'. Several names have popped-up, including a reference to a person connected to Car Phone Warehouse. There may be a dark side to explain why Ian Cowper Ross has been so reluctant to talk or write about his father, yet more than willing to identify his aristocratic, but eccentric and wealthy mother-in-law. That explanation will have to wait for another day or I will meander totally off the subject at hand which is the money trail. That brings us to the story of an imaginary suitcase full of cash. It supposedly resulted from a check (cheque) written not by Carl 'Jimmy' Ross, but by Charles Edward Ross, which implies that Ian Cowper Ross' father had the ability to write a check (cheque) to fund Radio Caroline, without recourse to other people. That being the case according to this myth, where did the other names listed by 'Wikipedia' fit into this story if one man could do it all alone? Again, the actual story emerged when 'The Trio' paid a private investigator to get to the bottom of this mystery. Since it was known when Ian Cowper Ross got married; where he got married; when he got married and who he married, a request was made for a copy of his marriage certificate. Because Ian Cowper Ross and his ventriloquist dummy Ronan O'Rahilly are responsible for inventing the lies, confusion and resulting fraud as perpetrated by Paul Rusling with the help and for the benefit of Malcolm Smith; it is fitting that everyone should see the hard evidence that reveals the identity of Ian Cowper Ross' father; his mother; his in-laws and his wife. Now we turn to Rusling's fable, which is actually part of a confidence trick to extract money by false pretenses. In the first instance Rusling stole most of his information about the creation of Radio Caroline from 'The Trio'. It was theft because 'The Trio' had paid for it in both time and with a lot of money of their own. Rusling stole the lot.
But if we go to Rusling's page 51 (softback edition), and read under the heading: 'The Ross Family' we read a slab of text that has been lifted and amended that came from the 1990 book by Ian Ross called 'Rocking the boat'. There is no other possible source because the story is a fable which Rusling has tried to embellish by adding the person of Oonagh Leigh who Rusling identifies as Oonagh Huggard. This is what Rusling has written: "While Ross senior's Christian name was Charles, (sic) many of his close friends and colleagues knew him simply as 'Jimmy'." Rusling also wrote: ".... Ian took Chris and Ronan to meet his father at the family home near Haslemere .... Ian Ross's (sic) father was a New Zealander (sic) who had done well in the City of London ...." None of this is true! In addition to spending time to research the real and documented names of the Ross family and the spouse and in-laws of his wife, 'The Trio' also embarked upon an extensive hunt for the true background of both Ian Cowper Ross; his father; his paternal grandfather in New Zealand and his wife's aristocratic ties to the Establishment in her own right and via her sister who also married into aristocracy. This marriage by her sister opens up an entire story-line that will make readers gasp when they understand the total extent of this gigantic and fraudulent cover-up, because one strand of it will rewrite everything that you think that you know about the music of the early Nineteen Sixties. But again, in order to maintain a semblance of a continuous thread, that will have to wait for a future edition of my blog. That entry by 'Wikipedia' also brought in the name of John Sheffield who headed the Norcross Group of companies, and it also mentioned Jocelyn Stevens of 'Queen' magazine. Stevens had married the daughter of John Sheffield. But in order to place everything in its proper order and to resume the trail that we began following on page 276 of the book 'Radio Man', some of this information will have to be slotted-in at the appropriate time. But rest assured, it will be covered in great detail. The reason I called my blog a 'Media-Microscope' is because this story will blow the lid off modern media in the UK and USA. This is not simply a story about a one-time pop station called Radio Caroline. This is a story about national and international politics and money and mind-manipulation that has led to wars resulting in millions of deaths. This is a gigantic cover-up where it is impossible to only reveal a little bit of the true story. So join me tomorrow and I will do my best to continue on our quest of discovery, and the storage boxes at Wroughton reveal what was found! Yesterday I reported upon the comments of Pye executive Harry McGhee*. He was referring back in time to start of Manx Radio in 1964, and Harry wanted to impress everyone that he knew what he was talking about. *A correction was made on 10/2/2020 because the original source as cited misspelled the name of McGhee by leaving out the 'h'. Some texts may still contain this error which has been corrected here. Unfortunately for the BBC Radio 3 audience of 1974, and for Harry McGee, it seems that Harry was being used, because he did not have a clue about what was really taking place! But Harry wanted to impress the BBC audience and so how told them that he "worked with Mr John Stanley very closely." Maybe he did, but it must have been during that portion of the day when Mr John Stanley was not talking to other people who were working at cross-purposes to Harry McGee! The time period we are talking about is when Radio Caroline first came on the air from its new anchorage off the Isle of Man. Clearly, Mr. McGhee thought that he knew what was going on, but it seems that he did not. Harry McGhee did know about the Pye Plan to bring land-based, licensed commercial radio stations to British audiences. But his claim seems to clash with this claim that appears on page 276 of the book called 'Radio Man': According to this report, John Stanley and his father Charles Orr Stanley were not only working on Manx Radio, they were also working on Radio Caroline! The Stanleys became involved with Radio Caroline via GBOK, an offshore radio station which had planned to use a former lightship called 'Lady Dixon' that was docked at Sheerness, next to a Pye owned company which fronted the quayside. How this happened is another story which I will explain a little later. When GBOK floundered due to a number of circumstances, including the revelation that caused its owner to flee the UK after it was discovered that he was a con man living off his wife's inheritance. His demise in another country soon followed when he was charged and sentenced to prison for having underage sex. Naturally his wife divorced him. However, GBOK had come with a number of assets, including a lucrative broadcasting contract with the Radio Church of God, Inc., which had a world headquarters and college in Pasadena, California, and a British headquarters that was just opening another college campus between Watford and St Albans. A further GBOK asset came in the form of two retired BBC engineers who had already become employed by Pye. So with Allan Crawford floundering on Dean Street in Soho where his record company had been working on creating an offshore station, his small operation came up with enough money to send Ronan O'Rahilly to Houston in June 1963 with a request. Crawford wanted to lease the mv Mi Amigo by proving that the Royal Navy would not seize it. However, that same ship had been anchored off Brightlingsea, Essex in 1962, and there had been noises made by Trinity House to sue its owners of the ship who were represented in London by Bill Weaver. So for a number of reasons, the Mi Amigo (at that time known as Magda Maria), was taken to Galveston Island, Texas, and Bill Weaver returned to Houston, Texas, where he was also the manager of McLendon's KILT. When O'Rahilly showed up Weaver looked at the documents that had been sent with him, but his answer remained firm: find another ship as a guinea pig and if it survives a Royal Navy challenge, we will lease you the Mi Amigo. This forced Crawford into the arms of Pye, and so the Radio Caroline project was born. How Pye put the financing for Radio Caroline together and how Jocelyn Stevens got involved, I will explain in a future edition. Suffice to say that Paul Rusling does not have a clue. In fact, everyone who has bought his book should demand a refund, because they have been swindled. Right now I am following the 'Radio Man' thread and the top secret project that Pye had embarked upon to create Radio Caroline out of the ashes of GBOK by forming an alliance with Allan Crawford to use his studio facilities. But whereas Crawford saw a stand-alone life for his station to promote his independent record releases via offshore; Pye saw this project as a short term political pressure point that would last only as long as the Tories remained in office. The goal was to get the Conservative government to license land-based, sponsored commercial radio. However, as Harry McGee correctly stated, Pye had no desire to run these radio stations, for that it had another partner - the newspaper owners! In other words while Allan Crawford wanted to create an outlet for his records to stimulate sales, Pye was going to use Radio Caroline to whip-up a daytime demand from housewives for an alternative, with commercials, to the fare offered by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Pye also knew that if word got out that it was behind this attempt to pressure the Tory government into enacting legislation that would suit the financial bottom-line of newspaper owners and the Pye Group which wanted to build their land-based stations; then Pye would find itself in a very dangerous financial position. It was a gamble that the Stanleys were willing to take because without some sort of boost to their financial future, there would be rough times ahead for the Pye Group. In the end the Pye Group lost this gamble and its 'empire' was gobbled-up by competitors such as the Philips company. The real danger that faced Charles and John Stanley was that the Pye Group of companies were part of the framework forming the franchise system that operated commercial television stations under license from the British Independent Television Authority (ITA). They were also suppliers to both the British Defence Establishment and the British Broadcasting Corporation, and manufacturers of many industrial products, as well as licensed manufacturers supplying the British retail market with many consumer products including television sets; radio sets; record players and records. They were in danger of losing everything if anyone discovered what Charles and John Stanley were gambling with. There was also a certain amount of gall involved with the machinations of Charles and John Stanley, because they were using the arrival of Radio Caroline off the Isle of Man as a battering ram. The purpose of Radio Caroline (North) was to enable the Stanleys to lodge complaints in the British press against Radio Caroline (North)! Their game was simply this: the British government would not allow Pye to operate a full-power commercial radio station from the Isle of Man to cover both the British Isles and parts of the European continent. As if that was not enough, they were also working for the commercial radio interests of Tory MP Geoffrey Hirst. Back in 1953 Hirst had been a very vocal advocate of both sponsored commercial television and radio in the UK. In 1959 he registered a company called 'Radio Yorkshire (Development) Company Ltd.', with its center of operations at Shipley, Yorkshire. That station was also demanding a licence and it was also in the broadcast coverage area of Radio Caroline (North). Radio Yorkshire (Development) Company Ltd., was linked to both Associated Newspapers (whose biggest property is the 'Daily Mail'), and links that connected it to both the beginnings of the Local Radio Association and the local management of Manx Radio on the Isle of Man. Rusling does not understand any of this and he cannot make that connection to the formation of Radio Yorkshire in Scarborough which was forced to change its name to Radio 270 following complaints from Radio Yorkshire (Development) Company Ltd., in Shipley. After a lot of information was sent his way about this connection he cannot claim that he did not know about it, but on the other hand, he has done nothing to help investigate these links. So we come back to Harry McGee and it is clear that Charles and John Stanley were running a very complex campaign in which they played all sides against the middle, and Harry McGee was unaware of it. That brings us back to page 276 of 'Radio Man'. Specifically it is the meaning of that contradictory paragraph on page 276 and its original source that needs to be explained. Where did that information come from? Fortunately this entire saga of discovery was documented by emails, and with the eventual discovery of the source information, I can now reveal that story to you. One question that remains unanswered is the reason why Nicholas Stanley engaged in continuing this deception, long after the events, but tomorrow, I will reveal all! In 2002, the book 'Radio Man' cost £92,355 to produce in the name of the prestigious Institute for Electrical Engineers (IEE), as a means of documenting a recreated history of Charles Orr Stanley; his son John Stanley, and their management of the Pye Group of Companies based in Cambridge, England. This book of 357 pages was published upon instructions of Nicholas Stanley. He created the Stanley Foundation for this purpose and it cost £92,355 to produce. That, is a lot of money, and it is especially true since that book does not tell the truth, it covers-up the truth. Nicholas is the son of John Stanley, and the grandson of Charles Orr, and it was Nicholas who hired Mark Frankland, academically accredited journalist for the 'Observer' newspaper and published author; with Gordon Busey, as a consulting technical writer. On page 276, and in one paragraph [above left], details of a conspiracy to evade the aims of the Conservative British government were set in motion by Nicholas Stanley's grandfather Charles, and his father John. Nicholas' book claims that they did this in order to introduce commercial radio from a broadcasting ship outside of UK territorial waters. That station was called Radio Caroline. According to this same paragraph, that event implies that the beginning of Radio Caroline paralleled the establishment of the "first legal commercial radio station" on the Isle of Man called Manx Radio. However, the history of Manx Radio includes the aborted attempt to begin broadcasting on the Isle of Man with a station called 'Radio Manx', and the two ventures are not the same, although there is an overlapping history of events concerning both operations. But this paragraph also contains a series of words which are extremely confusing because they are known to contradict facts in evidence: According to this excerpt [shown right] and taken from the same text in that paragraph, it was the two Stanleys led by Charles Orr and supported by his son John, who were "determined" that Radio Caroline "should succeed". But why? What was their motive? The plethora of books that have been published to date on this subject generally ignore the claims made about Pye, even though 'Radio Man' was published in 2002, and books by Adrian Johns (2012); Ray Clark (2014); Brian Lister (2017) and Paul Rusling (2019) were all published after this date. But that list is not a complete list by any means, there are many others such as the book by Keith Skues (2009 and later) which have also appeared since 'Radio Man'. Yet none of the authors became troubled by the text on page 276 in that lone paragraph. Maybe these authors did not know about this prestigious publisher called the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE), who stated on the cover of this book that it was published as part of their 'History of Technology Series 30', or maybe this did but they did not know what to make of their book. Rusling seems to fall into this category because while he 'lifted' unaccredited illustrations and information from 'Radio Man', his references are a such a scrambled mess that he does not refer to the book itself. On the other hand, because Rusling was on the mailing list of the 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter, it was easier for him to 'lift' his information from that source. He certainly did not bother to go back and perform his own research, and thus he avoided the problem that arose for 'The Trio' during 2014 at Burntisland. So how does Paul Rusling overcome this problem? The answer is that he reverted to quoting books with publication dates earlier than 2002 when 'Radio Man' was published. The first book he cites is the 1967 commissioned book that was written by John Venmore-Rowland who wrote other books that same year about aspects of life in the county of Suffolk, England. That book is based upon a Brief originally written on behalf of the latter management of the Radio Caroline financial interests, in a vain attempt to sway Members of Parliament into not voting for the Marine Offences Bill which became law in 1967. To do this, the interests of Pye are omitted and replaced by the introduction of Arthur Carrington who was a TV studio camera manager; but technical claims were attributed to him that rightfully belonged to the Pye Group of companies, and which are documented with a supporting photograph and illustration (pages 259-260) in the 'Radio Man' book, which at the time, had not been published. The second book that Rusling reverted to using was Ian Ross' book 'Rocking the Boat' that was published in 1990 by Heinemann in London. The story behind that book also holds many secrets and 'The Trio' had to hire a private detective to discover what they were! I will come to that story a little later on because it is also a part of the very complicated story which has never been even hinted at before (not even by Rusling!), that blows the lid off so many myths about the creation of Radio Caroline in 1964. But it is Ross' book which invents a tale about his father, and who he says Ronan O'Rahilly called 'Jimmy'. It is that tale which further allows for the invention of a series of false links that lead to Jocelyn Stevens via John Sheffield. In his book, Ian Ross writes a story that is a work of total fiction more than it is a work of roman-a-clef, because that formula is supposed to be a recital of actual events that have been slightly concealed, but which are discernible as to their actual validity. Not so with the Ian Ross book. It is fiction very loosely based upon the advent of Radio Caroline which Ian Ross calls 'Radio Camelot' in an attempt to introduce the O'Rahilly mythology about his love for all things Kennedy. In other words it is a hoax. While that pile of nonsense is enough to confuse everyone, Rusling also dipped into a third source from the 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter and again he refuses to do any research so he lifts illustrations from the newsletter (without accreditation), while avoiding the original source which is 'Inside the National Enquirer' by George Bernard published in 1977 by Ashley Books in the USA. Now if you flip open to page 112 of Rusling's rubbish, you read that "George Bernard was a Brit", except that he was a U.S. citizen and had no connection to the U.K., apart from a link via his partner. But that is also another major story, which although Rusling has again taken without permission a lot of material from the 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter, he has scrambled that data so badly that if you accept what he has written, you miss the entire story! Rusling does the same thing with his mention of Garner Ted Armstrong on page 83. Rusling has no idea of how any of the key components of the story fit together. Rusling is a "smash-and-grab" thief who thinks that he can steal intellectual property at whim, and get away with it. But he not only steals from sources which paid to gather the information, but he then swindles his readers with such drivel that they are left more confused than ever before after reading my words. So how does Rusling dig himself out of the pit that he has created? He resorts to quoting Oonagh Leigh who he only names as Oonagh Huggard. Oonagh is Rusling's substitute for Ronan O'Rahilly who did not have access to. But Oonagh was only able to spin from memory a very vague tale that is unsupported by the facts, about how Ronan O'Rahilly supposedly got involved with offshore radio. Rusling also reverts to the 'Jimmy Ross' myth invented by Ian Ross in 1990, and this is how Paul Rusling tries to con his readers by relating a story that is based upon nothing more than the scrambled lack of reasoned thoughts coming out of his head: Page 54: "Several other high net worth individuals invested what they thought of as 'racing money' for this 'bit of a punt' as John Sheffield called it to the many investors he advised. Among these was the Stanley family who were already investors in Radio Atlanta and who had plans for their own Pye company to set up over a hundred local radio stations. The intent was that the radio ships would force the government to negate the need for offshore radio by licensing local commercial stations." Not one word of what Rusling has fleeced his paid readers to read is true! That is fraud because Rusling knew that what he was selling to his readers was a lie! Paul Rusling was on the mailing list of the 'Caroline Investigation' newsletter that attempted to hold a symposium along academic lines. Rusling does not study and he has turned his nose up at academia! Not only that, but the Stanleys had nothing to do with John Sheffield and Rusling's claims that the Stanleys invested in Radio Atlanta is also untrue. Rusling did his best in his absurd 'bible' to resurrect the 'Jimmy Ross' myth, but 'Jimmy Ross' did not exist. It was not the Stanleys who were investing in Allan Crawford's 'Radio Atlanta', they were the people behind Radio Caroline., because the Stanleys were the people who were "determined that (Radio Caroline) should succeed." ('Radio Man', page 276.) Rusling lied, but 'Radio Man' does not tell the truth either! I can prove it! You will have to be patient because I am going to treat this proof as if I am presenting it to a court of law and not on a blog! In a court of law a judge will require that evidence that is introduced into a case must be preceded by a 'foundation' of factual evidence. You cannot leap-frog over evidentiary facts, they must follow in order on a linked chain, and all links must be documented. I am going to do my very best to follow those standards. This may slow things down, but I am not writing a novel. So let us take a closer look at those words: "a fictitious radio manufacturing company" and that "everything Pye made for Caroline was stamped with the logo of the nonexistent manufacturer." The key words being "fictitious"; "manufacturing"; "made" and "nonexistent manufacturer." The problem that immediately arises for all of the many people who had been on board the mv Fredericia (ex-Caroline) is that all of the main transmitting and broadcasting equipment that was loaded on board that ship came from the United States of America. None of it was made by a Pye related company, and all of the logos on the main equipment represented a genuine company! Before we look behind those misleading words on page 276 of 'Radio Man' and discover the real story, it is necessary to deal with a sidebar issue raised by Scottg. It is upon reflection, a very interesting interjection, because it is proof that the Pye operation was conducted on a military 'need to know' basis. In other words there were two Pye groups involved, and at least one of them was not aware that the other one existed! Here's why: Scottg raised the question about an old BBC radio program and its transcript. I won't reproduce all of it, just the relevant points. It was transmitted as the first episode of three in a BBC Radio 'Study on 3' series. It aired on April 5, 1974, and it was presented by John Dunkley. One of his guests on the first program in a series of three, was about the introduction of commercial radio in the UK. That guest was Harry McGhee* and he had been an employee of the Pye Group. *Correct spelling. Original is incorrect - the 'h' is missing. I will let you read the transcript and then I will comment on it: This interview featured several people, and Harry McGhee was one of the guests on the show. In this section of the interview, Dunkley begins by laying down a timeline which starts in the year 1964, after Manx Radio has come on the air. So the question is: When did Manx Radio first come on the air? It was on June 29, 1964, which was 94 days after the first test transmission by Radio Caroline off the coast of Essex on March 27, 1964. The radio ship mv Caroline then moved to a location off the Isle of Man on July 6, 1964, which was 7 days after Manx Radio first came on the air. Therefore since Harry McGee is referring to a time when Manx Radio is on the air, it has to be after June 29, 1964. It is clear that Dunkley knew nothing about the claims later revealed in the book 'Radio Man', and it seems that although McGhee considered himself to be very close to John Stanley, he had no idea that both John Stanley and his father were working on both Manx Radio and Radio Caroline! Some of the recital by McGhee is similar to the paragraph on page 276 of 'Radio Man', but again, McGhee had limited knowledge about the actual involvement of Richard Meyer and how he tied into the Pye Plan to get licenses for radio stations all over the British Isles. The reason why I am showing you the rest of McGhee's comments is in order to let him set the stage for what he thought that Charles and John Stanley were doing. In the press at the time, Pye began to complain loudly to the British (Tory) Government that they were allowing a 'pirate' station called Radio Caroline to destroy Manx Radio due to inequality of power being used by both stations. Clearly, to do this, Charles and John Stanley could not reveal that they had put Radio Caroline on the air, and clearly, to prevent 'leaks', very few people were aware of their masterplan. McGhee seems to have also been out of the 'loop'! The Pye Plan was quite audacious! It was certainly devious! How many people in government guessed what the Stanleys were up to is another matter, but as you will see, and as Rusling noted in one of his stolen items of research, the Director General of the BBC came to know a lot of details, but even the BBC could not figure out the funding structure (and neither it seems can Paul Rusling!), because Pye had intentionally planted fake information in the Irish media about a future project that might involve Pye off the southeastern coastline of England. Nothing was reported about Pye being involved with getting Radio Caroline on the air beginning with its first test broadcast on March 27, 1964. Now this part that McGhee is relating is true: Pye did not want to set up their own radio stations, even though they did build a demonstration station called 'Radio Cambridge'. The fact is that because of the deliberate scheme to deceive that had been set in motion by Pye, or rather, by Charles and John Stanley personally, and because Ronan O'Rahilly was hired at a much lower level to perpetuate one part of that deception, very few people knew what was really going on. But there was another wrinkle. As previously explained, there were four 'lives' or parts to the life of the original Radio Caroline operation, and the first part lasted only until the General Election results came in on October 15, 1964, after which time the Pye involvement was over. But the break was not sudden, but gradual due to the people that Pye had introduced to run Radio Caroline from the start. Again, Rusling fails to grasp any of this. Labour had won the General Election of 1964, and rather than trying to introduce commercial radio in competition to the BBC, there was talk that the new Labour Government under Harold Wilson would be severely cutting back on the ITA commercial operations. However, none of this explains why 'Radio Man' included that one paragraph on page 276, because even at a first reading, it does not make sense, and it does not make sense because it clashes with known and proven facts established by many people. So why was it included? It seems that this was part of the plan to continue the confusion rather than explain the truth, and I will begin to unravel that devious element in Nicholas Stanley's book, tomorrow. See you then. [UPDATED BY EDITING TO INCLUDE AMENDMENTS, DELETIONS AND ADDITIONS: 4/3/2020 and another on 10/2/2020 adding 'h' to the name McGhee. The original is incorrect.] Due to circumstances beyond my control I have run out of time for today. I will return to explain the deep and dark secret behind that paragraph on page 276 tomorrow.
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