Clockwork Orange existence admitted

Title

Clockwork Orange existence admitted

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

31 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:27

Description

Des Fahy reports on the Ministry of Defence admitting the existence of a black propaganda project called Clockwork Orange in Northern Ireland in the 1970’s and involvement of army officer Colin Wallace with it, alleged to have been working to destabilise the Government. With Commons speeches from Leader of the House Sir Geoffrey Howe; shadow Leader of the House Jack Cunningham; former Northern Ireland Secretary Merlyn Rees; Tory MP Jonathan Aitken. For Update programme.

Contributors

Merlyn Rees; Geoffrey Howe; Jack Cunningham; Des Fahy; Jonathan Aitken

Keywords

Politics; Government; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Conspiracy; UK; Propaganda; Espionage; Intelligence service; Army; Army personnel; Ministry of Defence; Colin Wallace; Update (radio programme)

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