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Since the mid-1970s, a variety of conspiracy theories have emerged centring on British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976, winning four general elections. These range from Wilson having been a Soviet agent (a claim which MI5 investigated and found to be false), to Wilson being the victim of treasonous plots by conservative-leaning elements in MI5, claims which Wilson himself made. ==Background== Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn is said to have told Alec MacDonald, who set up safe houses where Golitsyn could live, that Wilson was a KGB operative and that former Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell had been assassinated by the KGB to have the pro-US Gaitskell replaced as party leader by Harold Wilson.〔Leigh, p. 80.〕 ''Guardian'' journalist David Leigh, however, claims that Golitsyn was guessing. Christopher Andrew, the official historian for Britain's MI5,〔(War and Intelligence Conference )〕 has described Golitsyn as an "unreliable conspiracy theorist".〔Christopher Andrew, (Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries and Deadly Games By Tennent H Bagley Reviewed by Christopher Andrew ), ''The Sunday Times'', 24 June 2007〕 In his controversial memoir ''Spycatcher'' (1987), former MI5 officer Peter Wright stated that the head of the CIA's Counterintelligence Division, James Angleton, told him that Wilson was a Soviet agent when Wilson was elected Prime Minister in 1964. Wright said that Angleton said he had heard this from a source (whom he did not name but who was probably Golitsyn). According to Wright, Angleton offered to provide further information on the condition that MI5 guaranteed to keep these allegations from "political circles",〔Wright, p. 364.〕 but the management of MI5 declined to accept restrictions on the use of the information and Angleton told them nothing more. At the end of the 1960s, Wright wrote, MI5 received information from two Czechoslovakian defectors, Josef Frolík and František August, who had fled to the West, alleging the Labour Party had "almost certainly" been penetrated by the Soviets. The two named a list of Labour MPs and trade unionists as Soviet agents.〔 MI5 maintained a permanent file on Wilson, repeatedly investigating him over the course of several decades before officially concluding that Wilson had had no relationship with the KGB; nor had it ever found evidence of Soviet penetration of the Labour Party.〔Michael Evans, "Wilson cleared of KGB threat in MI5 inquiry", ''The Times'', 4 May 1987.〕 Wilson claimed he was a staunch anti-communist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Wilson conspiracy theories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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