The BBC are a World service of bullscutterers, of secret agents and surveillance, that might come straight out its own spy drama Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The facts are that the BBC was involved with genuine spies and they operated behind the scenes at Broadcasting House.
The BBC's relationship with MI5 in the late 1970s and early 1980s was most intimate at the same time as millions of viewers were watching the adventures of George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and -Smiley's People.
Confidential papers reveal that the BBC allowed MI5 to investigate the backgrounds and political affiliations of thousands of its employees, including newsreaders, reporters and announcers.
The files confirm the BBC's secret links with Secret Services demonstrating that it was responsible for vetting 6,300 different BBC posts at one stage, almost a third of the total workforce at the time. They also confirm that the corporation held a blacklist of certain kinds, that could be a bar to appointment or promotion as is standard in any police state.
Documents exist which show that senior BBC personnel try to hide these links in the face of awkward questions from the almost extinct free press. The documents mention a "defensive strategy" of "categorical denial". One file states: "Keep head down and stonewall all questions."
The BBC always refuses to be drawn on its collaboration with the secret services.
An internal BBC memo confirms: "We supply personal details to the Security Service. If there is any adverse information known, we receive this information and also, where necessary, an assessment based upon the involvement of the individual. This is presented to us as advice;management then make the decision as to action."
The BBC personnel subjected to this second kind of scrutiny was termed as "counter-subversion vetting". Details of freelance television and radio staff also routinely passed on to the security services subjected to background checks by MI5. In many cases, the spouses of applicants also subjected to scrutiny.
A memo discovered, dated March 7 1985, stated: "Secrecy of the complete vetting operation is imposed upon us by the Security Service " During the first four months of 1983 for example, they investigated 619 different individuals.
Archived papers show that in 1968, Sir Hugh Greene the BBC's then director-general and John Arkell, the head of administration, evaded questions on the issue during an interview with a journalist. A memo from Mr Arkell, dated March 1 1968, to another senior colleague states: "You might like to get a bit of credit for the BBC next time you talk to MI5 by telling them that I stuck resolutely to the brief which you prepared for me in spite of very pointed and penetrating questions.
"I still denied that we had any vetting procedures."
The BBC will not comment.
Nevertheless the BBC continues with a policy of brutal censorship of feedback from citizens all over the world, where it beams its consistent culture of constant war, into its ex-colonies of now compliant client states, staffed by regimes organized before their departure. Their cultural warfare applies across the board to seemingly innocent matters, such as sport and humour even by its own 'commoners' (its not a democracy).
Below is a clip of a famous comedy series, much of the material was censored by the BBC, as it was suggested by some to be satire of the BBC itself and a parody of them as simply a subservient Ministry of Silly Walks, to conform with their regulation and control of British society and their ex-colonies including the US.
John Cleese the actor featured here, left the show after the third series, so he did not appear in the final six episodes that made up series four. It is believed that the rampant BBC censorship was too upsetting for him to continue in a creative manner.
BBC BRUTISH BULLSCUTTER COPERATION
Don't even give them a chance to launch their Bullscutter !
Oh, no. Brutish Bullscutter Coperation. Don't come fucking near me today. Dear Jaysus, you Kerry fucking recruits and gobshites all over the Irish media are their by-product. There are so many things I could say to express my deep mistrust and yes, anger of these new media Irish opinion makers. Their world service can be a titillating export but their rampant censorship of the restless native's replies stinks to high heaven, of arrogance, cultural imperialism and age old repression.
I don't vote right wing as far as I know, so maybe that also explains my antagonism to them. I don't believe the Brutish Bullscutter Coperation, which henceforth will be simply called the BBC, offer anything approximating legitimate alternatives for this country, indeed any country but thats their business. I disagree with their monarchy, class system of commoners, lords, inherited privilige and intolerance of diversity or alternatives.
Lest you think nationalism is blinding me, do not confuse my rants against Brutish Bullscutter with the many Scottish, English and Welsh friends I have known down through the years, most of whom are the salt of the Earth in my opinion and great people.
It goes against every fibre of my being and tradition to be rude to people but you have got to stand up for your identity these days or become a smiling zombie product of their pundits and seductive manipulating bullscutter.
Brutes are people too but we must take this tour d'arse with all of its insanity, as a relief from the bland sanitized, couldn't give a fuck mercenary BULLSCUTTER ! of our age.
