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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The fate of Radio Caroline was sealed the moment that Ronan O'Rahilly was hired as a 'decoy duck'. He probably was the biggest enemy that Radio Caroline ever had!
Clearly that statement will shock some; anger others, and mystify many, who, if they have ever heard of Ronan O'Rahilly, will automatically associate his name with Radio Caroline. But even today, the local and unrelated low-power licensed British station that calls itself Radio Caroline, but which is not related to the twin Radio Caroline stations of the Sixties, performs a backhanded slap at O'Rahilly by disassociating itself from him, while continuing to preach the myth that Ronan O'Rahilly started the original Radio Caroline. It all began with the need for a "decoy duck", as one MP called Ronan O'Rahilly, and he further described O'Rahilly as a 'front man' for Jocelyn Stevens. Peter Sellers referred to Jocelyn Stevens as the 'Duke of Caroline' in his home movie that he made with Princess Margaret in Stevens' "back yard". There was no confusion either, Sellers created a mock coat of arms for Stevens which had the silhouette of a radio ship perched at its apex. But what the general public, indeed, what academia and the broadcasting profession really know about the creation of Radio Caroline, is very little indeed. Ronan O'Rahilly was in his early twenties when he first arrived in London at the beginning of the Sixties. By his own admission volunteered in several interviews both in print and on air, O'Rahilly admits that he was not a successful pupil at school in Ireland. Ronan O'Rahilly did not fare well in the family building materials business, and so he ended up in London with very little money. He became a hanger-on and a 'gopher' for others, as in "go for this" and "go for that". He was primarily at the beck and call of other people while perpetually trying to attract attention to himself. Along the way his mesmerizing spirit attracted other young men who would play a big part in his life. One of the first was Christopher Moore, and he introduced Ian Cowper Ross, who had by his own accounts, introduced himself to Chris Moore. Ian Cowper Ross appears to have got a job for a short while in Jocelyn Stevens' advertising department which supported a number publications owned by Stevens, including 'Queen' magazine. Ian soon received an assignment to become a sort of script writer for Ronan O'Rahilly, because unscripted Ronan O'Rahilly was likely to say and do the wrong things, and that could have, and it did have unfortunate repercussions for both Jocelyn Stevens, and Radio Caroline. In fact, it was as if the number one enemy of Radio Caroline had been implanted in its very core point of origination, and the name of the enemy was Ronan O'Rahilly. So how could all this be true if the world was taught to believe that Ronan O'Rahilly had created Radio Caroline? Therein is the key to the mystery. Years later, George Lazenby was asked for his opinion of Ronan O'Rahilly after Lazenby turned down the opportunity to earn millions more as the star of future 'James Bond' movies. Lazenby did so upon advice he received from Ronan O'Rahilly. Said George Lazenby: ".... he started (Radio Caroline) and launched all these English pop groups, so I though he knew what he was talking about." https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2017/06/02/becoming-bond-george-lazenby-hulu/102313230/ Unfortunately for George Lazenby he swallowed the lies of Ronan O'Rahilly who did not create Radio Caroline and neither did he launch "all these English pop groups". He said that he did, and he repeated it often enough so that people began to believe him, and they did so because no one stepped forward with the truth. Now why was that? Just about all of the other major offshore radio stations followed very traditional methods of corporate management, including steps taken to avoid the tax man. True, the money behind Radio Caroline was a mystery, but so was its outward manifestation. There was no company behind its beginning that was registered as Radio Caroline. Its rival called Radio London, was fronted by a dummy company registered in the UK as Radlon (Sales) Limited, and it was not too difficult to trace it back to its parent company in the Bahama islands, and from there to the small East Texas town of Eastland. That is where the road also led if you traced back the original operating company behind Radio England and Britain Radio; while Radio Scotland and Radio 390 followed very traditional lines of corporate ownership. To some extent this was also true of the other offshore stations big and small. But what was 'Radio Caroline'? The ancestry of Radio Caroline actually stretches back to the last few years of World War II, and the coming together of vested interests sharing a common objective but employing different means of reaching their unified goal. That objective finally emerged from a very formal entity known as Project Atlanta Limited, and that is when its corporate structure vanished from view. Project Atlanta Limited has its own strange ancestry which ties part of it to the independent record business in the United Kingdom, and part of it to a series of failed ventures all trying to start an offshore broadcasting station. Those twin roots will be explained within the blogs to follow. But if Radio Caroline as a project had a real front man, then it was Jocelyn Stevens, and it was Jocelyn Stevens who guided 'Plan A' of the Radio Caroline project which eventually went through two more major stages. The first plan, which I have called 'A', lasted from March 27, 1964 to October 15, 1964. The first date is marked by the first test transmissions of the original Radio Caroline, and the second date is marked by the UK General Election results. While 'Plan A' had a legal objective to gain licenses for some 200 registered sponsored commercial radio stations; some in clusters registered by major companies, and some of them individualistic. One theme that glued them all together was the trade to which Jocelyn Stevens had attached himself: printing and publishing. But 'Plan B', which was the second phase, took off almost immediately following the UK General Election of October 15, 1964, and it placed Radio Caroline into the welcoming arms of the Jewish Mafia and its regional parent criminal organization called Cosa Nostra. Both of these organizations were entwined with the music and broadcasting business based in New York City. 'Plan B' was wrecked by Ronan O'Rahilly, and his wrecking ball began swinging almost immediately after October 15, 1964. One of the biggest blows that was launched by Ronan O'Rahilly on March 17, 1965, was when Ronan O'Rahilly decided to revive references to his grandfather and the Irish Republican Army (IRA). That was at a time when peace was about to break out on the island of Ireland. At least, all of the main players seem to think so. None of this had anything to do with offshore sponsored commercial broadcasting, but it had everything to do with the vanity and insanity of Ronan O'Rahilly! So after March 17, 1965, the attention began to swing back to London and a cauldron of people milling around 6 Chesterfield Gardens which had been renamed 'Caroline House'. However, while the control gradually passed back from New York to London, it was still being influenced by the Jewish Mafia in the person of Phillip Solomon who had his own music business dealings with the same people that Radio Caroline had been hooked up with. We know what happened next, or we all could know if the facts in evidence are accepted. Phillip Solomon took the twin ship stations and ran them to the point that they had to be removed from the sea due to lack of maintenance and therefore lack of insurance coverage. After all, until August 14, 1967 when the formal Radio Caroline 'Plan C' ended at midnight, everything was operated on a neo-businesslike manner. After August 14, 1967, the 'rump' of 'Plan C' was allowed to fizzle out on March 3, 1968. Now that we are back on track, I will begin by unraveling 'Part A' in more detail. After that we will move to 'Plans B & C' and then this material will be re-edited and reassembled as part of the ebook called 'Radio Noir'. The blog will of course then continue in parallel with more information. I suggest that you revisit my blog on 4/27 of this year, because I am now picking up from where I left off on that day by adding more details, but while I may also repeat some information, I will essentially be adding on to that blog which provides some biographical details that will not be repeated here. Therefore, if some names trigger questions, I suggest you go back to that blog for the answers. Later these blogs will all be re-edited and re-posted in ebook form to the link shown above. Right now that site is blank apart from the heading.
Personal attacks against me have risen since I began to expose the real person who was Ronan O'Rahilly, but there has not been a single rebuttal of the evidence presented. I am not surprised since it would be difficult to justify the fake story now that the real story has begun to be exposed.
Tomorrow I hope to present you with an outline of real events that led up to the start of Radio Caroline on March 27, 1964. A previous image from the blog of 4/28/2020 titled Blood on his hands?, which was deemed to be too difficult to read, has now been updated: because it is one of the keys to understanding what happened when Labour won the October 15, 1964 UK General Election. Ronan O'Rahilly had been hired as a 'decoy duck'; a door man diverting attention away from people who were really behind Radio Caroline. But Ronan O'Rahilly - the irresponsible gadfly that he was; the man who almost got Simon Dee arrested for theft, and the man who did get George Drummond arrested for theft; plunged headlong into the bloodbath that was to become 'The Troubles' when he humiliated both Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and nearly caused a major international incident by embarrassing U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy; brother of the recently murdered President! Yes, this is the REAL about Ronan O'Rahilly and not the fake image that his troll-like fans have been worshipping! Now do you understand that sarcastic political speech that Johnnie Walker read at midnight on August 14, 1967, and which was written by Ronan O'Rahilly? In case you need to be reminded, listen to it again by clicking HERE to hear Johnnie Walker read Ronan O'Rahilly's script at 12 midnight on August 14, 1967. To listen to the entire this broadcast in context of the last transmissions before August 14, 1967, and the continuing transmissions into August 15, 1967, please click HERE!
Robin Leach merely invented the Caroline Kennedy myth to get a story for the 'National Enquirer' - but he was 'scooped' by a U.S. daily which then syndicated their expose to newspapers across the USA. But Ronan O'Rahilly used that myth for sinister purposes! I wonder how many tears would have been shed for Ronan O'Rahilly in Northern Ireland, had it been understood what kind of a self-centered and uncaring human being Ronan O'Rahilly really was? It had nothing to do with the issue of "Ireland for the Irish" - the British should never have occupied the island. But as the news report above shows, by 1962 there may have been a quiet, peaceful and political solution on the horizon. Ronan O'Rahilly merely helped to drench the years to come in bloodshed, and he did this while humiliating Prime Minster Harold Wilson in public. In so doing he created such a life-long enemy of Radio Caroline that even Tony Benn did not understand it. 'Radio-Noir' now begins here.
This is where my book begins its presentation as this blog transitions from a book review to presenting a new story-line in episodic format. A new web page will also be added very shortly where new material first presented here, will then be edited to become part of an e-book which in turn will become a printed book. Meanwhile, a academic project is to be launched under the name of 'YesterAir'. It was first announced back in 2015, and its style, presentation, authorship will remain totally separate in scope and in its target audience from 'Radio-Noir'. Some may wonder why the title "Dial 999 for Caroline!" seems to have been dropped by 'The Trio' - well, it hasn't! Click and you will see Part One of the video that was made using that title. However, that title projects the expectation of a British criminal story, which it is. But it is much more than that, it is also a story involving the intelligence agencies of both the UK and USA as well as the activities of the U.S. Cosa Nostra and the so-called 'Jewish Mafia'. In the USA "999" is unknown as the number to call for emergency services, because "911" is used instead. In other words this story has not shied away from its dark overtones, it has done just the opposite: it has expanded in scope, hence 'Radio-Noir'. No one has ever put this story together before! What has been published (and broadcast) so far about Radio Caroline, has mainly been fluff and puff; absolute nonsense pulled from thin air. In other words the public have been presented with rubbish; nonsense, and idiocy to benefit a handful of people trying to make money off the legacy of two names: Radio Caroline and Ronan O'Rahilly. However, Radio Caroline and "the dark side of life" is a more apt coupling, although Ronan O'Rahilly personally represented that "dark side of life" that no one wanted to talk about - because of fear! The amount of money being discussed here, is not the small amount money that is handed under the table in wads of folded notes to a receiver who poses a physical threat to the giver. This is about the digits flowing through electronic conduits that carry untaxed money to obscure bank accounts that are controlled by people with their own methods of enforcement to prevent defaults. That is what the "dark side" means. Let there be no doubt about what this blog is unraveling: it is one aspect of the dark side of life that has been accompanied by sex, drugs, booze and music. Lots and lots of music to drown out the mayhem and the misery. Welcome to part of that world fronted by a minor greeter and doorman named Ronan O'Rahilly. As I explained the other day, this investigation began back in 1966, or more specifically, it began on June 22, 1966 when a story was splashed across the pages of Daily Telegraph about the murder of Reg Calvert. He will killed by way of a gun barrel that was pointed at him by Oliver Smedley who then pulled a trigger. A member of 'The Trio' became intrigued. How could a major British daily newspaper that represented the Tory Establishment in power, get a story so wrong about that event and then cause it be published? This question resulted in a phone call to the reporter who admitted that he had no prior background knowledge concerning the story. He had written his article because it had been assigned to him by his editor. In order to satisfy his boss, the reporter went into to a favorite watering hole on Fleet Street where these folk once congregated at lunch time. Over a pint of beer he asked a friend who worked for a ITA television program franchise to fill him in on the details, and from their conversation the story then appeared in print. It seemed to this member of 'The Trio' that the background story to the sudden development of commercial radio stations from off the British coastline should be told properly, and since he was a member of the National Union of Journalists and held other press credentials, that he should write it without delay. The end result was a half-page feature that was published on June 27, 1967 in a regional daily newspaper. A year later, in fact, two days after the majority of these offshore stations had closed down, this same member of 'The Trio' wrote a letter on August 16, 1967 to Don Pierson in Texas. It asked for details behind the Texas creation of Radio London; Radio England and Britain Radio. No reply was forthcoming - at that time. Years later, when the author of the letter was in Texas on May 22, 1983, Don Pierson personally gave this letter writer his financial and legal documents relating to those stations. They had been sitting in boxes stored in the rest room (toilet) of a Pullman rail car which sat upon rails and served as a guest house in Don Pierson's back garden. The main contents of that box answered the request for information, but they also led to a story that had been kept from the British public. So when Steve England of 'Tapetrix' began selling the story of 'Swinging Radio England', he was actually peddling fantasy and not fact. When this was brought to the attention of Steve England he admitted - on a second version of his tape-for-sale, why the true story was only now emerging for the first time. No one in Britain knew much about Don Pierson, and prior to some of the Pierson documents being shared with others, no one knew the name of Burton Kanter of Chicago. But even when some of these documents were then shown to a colleague of Ray Anderson who then reprinted them without permission, none of his readers bothered to ask questions about Burton Kanter. No one asked who was behind 'The World Tomorrow' broadcasts, or how they got on to the airwaves of the offshore stations. In fact, hardly anyone asked questions but a lot of people kept churning out books and broadcasts to the gullible masses who had been former listeners to the offshore stations. They were interested in reminiscent tales that were often made up or embellished by former disc jockeys and minor bit players who knew nothing but wanted appear to be important (in their own eyes). The money side, the real side, remained a secret and until now, and there has been no bigger secret than the dark side of the story, the sinister story of Radio Caroline. Even with the death of Ronan O'Rahilly, his local priest at his memorial service was handed a script full of nonsense that pretended to chart the life work of this gadfly Irishman. The press duly reported that nonsense as fact. Of course the brainwashed adoring fans of Ronan O'Rahilly are aghast that anyone should dare to suggest that this man was merely a 'decoy duck', which is how a contemporaneous Member of Parliament had once described him to the press. But as time went on, this decoy duck became ever more the charlatan and con man who behaved like an evangelist who was spreading baloney to sustain his own personal lifestyle. So I don't expect, and 'The Trio' don't expect, that the cult-like trolls will accept these revelations about the true and sinister story behind Radio Caroline. The plodding academic version has been published in episodic articles for many years, but few have read them. Such is the fate of academia. It runs parallel to the legal world where new evidence can only be presented after a tedious foundational chain has been presented, and it has to be to the satisfaction of the judge who is presiding over the court room trial of that evidence. Wikipedia has taken the strange step of excluding original research, which means that nonsense published as fact is accepted by Wikipedia and remains unchallenged. Some of the material on Wikipedia about Radio Caroline is unbelievably ridiculous and without foundation in fact. The academic side of this project by 'The Trio' is still in progress, and it will appear as a series of works called 'YesterAir'; but this account called 'Radio-Noir' is for everyone who wants a quicker fix in "bam-bam-bam" style that is more likely to trigger an emotional response of shock and horror. Of course trolls will simply ignore it all because their minds have never been open, and I do not expect to open them now - in whatever manner the facts are laid before them. If you are ready, I will now begin an account of how and why Radio Caroline began with a test broadcast on March 27, 1964 from off the coast of Essex, England. This is 'Radio-Noir' - examining the dark side under a media-microscope! |
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