To The 1994 Ulster Nation Article Re Searchlight
To David Kerr’s Letter To Housmans Bookshop
Dear Sir: Not only were Kerr and Riley placed in a position to be murdered, the same had happened a decade ago. "Far Right Spooks Move In" written by the former CPGB member Chris Horrie was published by SEARCHLIGHT in January 1986. The article was an attack upon the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), which contained veiled in- citement against EIR: A former member of the organisation that we spoke to warned us that the organisation "kills" and a U.K. private security firm [more about this later] which has strong links to British intelligence, has given a similar warning. On 4 April IZVESTIA published an article which contained "effusive praise for a British publication called SEARCHLIGHT... that in January 1986...first floated the line that La Rouche's [EIR] associates are killers." Within a matter of weeks the terrorist group Action Direct in Paris fire-bombed the EIR office causing injuries and deaths. The KGB had sub-contracted the terrorist operation to Action Direct. One cannot without further investigation(s) link all of the aforementioned together. A mutuality of interests may have been the case, until proven otherwise. The U.K. security firm was Control Risks. Prior to Riley's visit to the EIR HQ in August 1985 in Wiesbaden the firm had merely said that it could provide him with armed security protection if he so desired. He did not, and departed from the EIR HQ unharmed, as expected, as apposed to the C.P. induced fears disseminated to Riley from Horrie. (With regard to the aforementioned, Riley is willing to swear an oath an affidavit at any time) One last point, the editor of SEARCHLIGHT was always "sensitive" about anything being published about SEARCHLIGHT and the murky, perhaps KGB-linked, Soviet connection. Indeed, when the magazine VOLYA hinted at this area SEARCHLIGHT threatened legal action. One could never, could one, accuse SEARCHLIGHT of such actions. It was merely a case of SEARCHLIGHT being given information about WW II fascists - the fact that some of this 'information' was KGB disinformation hardly affects the role of SEARCHLIGHT. We can obviously, however, see that at least three articles - the mid 1980's one with attendant disastrous results - placed people in danger. Perhaps, until pointed out, SEARCHLIGHT did not realise the possible results of what they published, or perhaps they did not give a toss, because it was all part of fighting their ideological, and the Soviet Union's, enemies.
Click Here For A Scan Of The Original
Return To Site Index