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The floodgate of totally false published newspaper articles, features, books and even a ridiculous motion picture, all began when Ian Cowper Ross started to ingratiate himself with his wealthy mother-in-law.
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In the IEE book 'Radio Man' (cited above - left), it cites text from page 276 about Pye: ".... they set up a fictitious radio manufacturing company complete with its own stationery, invoices and bank accounts. Everything Pye made for Caroline was stamped with the logo of the nonexistent manufacturer."
But that is not what the original text that came from an interview said, and that is why the text in the book does not make sense. It was deliberately changed to intentionally obscure the true story!
The original text quoted Alan Bednall, chief designer under contract to Charles Orr Stanley of Pye, who told his son John Stanley: ".... binding me to complete secrecy, your Father came to me one day and asked me to create from scratch an entire new corporate entity for a company manufacturing radio equipment."
Notice what Alan Bednall did not say!
Bednall did not say that the new corporate entity was "a company manufacturing radio equipment", because it was not! It was a new corporate entity for a company manufacturing radio equipment.
The company manufacturing radio equipment was LTV Continental Electronics of Dallas, Texas!
LTV are the cartel initials of Ling-Temco-Vought, ".... a large American conglomerate which existed from 1961 to 2001. At its peak, it was involved in aerospace, airlines, electronics, steel manufacturing, sporting goods, meat packing, car rentals, and pharmaceuticals, among other businesses."
The reason why the Pye Group of Companies entered into a partnership with the LTV Group of Companies, is because the M.V. Bon Jour (later called Magda Maria, and then Mi Amigo), was outfitted with LTV Continental Electronics transmitters which had been shipped from Dallas to New York where they were disassembled, and then shipped to Europe.
The motor vessel Fredericia (later renamed Caroline), was also outfitted with LTV Continental Transmitters in total secrecy. The UK government were taken by surprise when it dropped anchor off Essex and began test transmissions on Friday, March 27, 1964. The UK government had been misdirected towards the Mi Amigo (Radio Atlanta), which arrived at Greenore after the Fredericia. But the method used to export the Bon Jour (Mi Amigo) transmitters via New York which resulted in a lot of press publicity, and that triggered U.S. government attention due to export restrictions.
To overcome the export problem, LTV-Ling, Inc., merely transferred its own LTV Continental Transmitters via its own British co-partner company called PYE-Ling, Ltd, and all shipments were marked, according to Alan Bednall, with the logo of LTV-LING! This veil of total secrecy was unknown to Beatrix Miller, the editor of Jocelyn Stevens' 'Queen' magazine. She quit the day that the Radio Caroline transmitters were turned on for a company registered as 'Radio Caroline Limited' at 54-62 Regent Street in London. But, guess what? We revealed some of this back on 8/31/2021 and again on 9/2/2021 and it all appeared on this very same web site!
The motor vessel Fredericia (later renamed Caroline), was also outfitted with LTV Continental Transmitters in total secrecy. The UK government were taken by surprise when it dropped anchor off Essex and began test transmissions on Friday, March 27, 1964. The UK government had been misdirected towards the Mi Amigo (Radio Atlanta), which arrived at Greenore after the Fredericia. But the method used to export the Bon Jour (Mi Amigo) transmitters via New York which resulted in a lot of press publicity, and that triggered U.S. government attention due to export restrictions.
To overcome the export problem, LTV-Ling, Inc., merely transferred its own LTV Continental Transmitters via its own British co-partner company called PYE-Ling, Ltd, and all shipments were marked, according to Alan Bednall, with the logo of LTV-LING! This veil of total secrecy was unknown to Beatrix Miller, the editor of Jocelyn Stevens' 'Queen' magazine. She quit the day that the Radio Caroline transmitters were turned on for a company registered as 'Radio Caroline Limited' at 54-62 Regent Street in London. But, guess what? We revealed some of this back on 8/31/2021 and again on 9/2/2021 and it all appeared on this very same web site!
Beatrix Miller had years earlier coined the name 'Caroline' as the title for her 'Queen' magazine Style Sheet. It was also used as the professional name for Carolyn Caird, daughter of the owner of Cromwell Publishing Company Limited, publisher of 'Queen' magazine. Hector Caird sold both his company and magazine to Jocelyn Stevens.
Carolyn Caird was groomed as a professional model by Beatrix Miller, and she paved the way for Carolyn to stay in New York City at the same high fashion building that was home to actress Grace Kelly. There is also a strange interlocking story that links Prince Rainer whom Grace Kelly married, with 'periphery broadcasting'.
But when the high-class professional name of Caroline was hijacked, to the total dismay and surprise of Beatrix and Caroline, it resulted in Beatrix resigning from 'Queen' magazine, and Carolyn giving up her professional modeling career. Once Jocelyn Stevens revealed himself as the still hidden 'front' for Charles Orr Stanley and his son John, the sales operations were temporarily moved from Regent Street, to his offices on Fetter Lane.
Pye then arranged in the Liechtenstein offices of Dr. Peter Marxer, who still had control of the 'Radio Nord' ship, now home to 'Radio Atlanta' aboard the Mi Amigo, for the absorption of all advertising sales by Radio Caroline Ltd. The programming and actual sales management was delegated back from Radio Caroline Ltd, to Planet Productions (Eire) Ltd., and Project Atlanta Limited.
To complete this masquerade for both listeners and mainstream media about the new management of 'Radio Caroline', Ronan O'Rahilly and Allan Crawford were then touted as the joint owner. To complete this illusion, both ship station activities were moved to Chesterfield Gardens in Mayfair. According to the original interview transcript of Alan Bednall, not even the board of directors of the parent Pye companies knew that all of this was a part of the highly secret offshore broadcasting plan created by Charles Orr Stanley with assistance from his son John.
But on October 15, 1964, when it became known that the socialist Labour Party had won the UK General Election, Charles Orr Stanley "pulled the plug". He knew that his master plan which had begun back in 1959 was not going to work. After publication of the 'Pilkington Report', Stanley's idea had been to use a de facto independent radio station to reverse its findings. He distracted attention to Crawford's ambitions and then forced the merger of 'Radio Atlanta' into becoming 'Radio Caroline South'. He moved the vessel previously known as 'Fredericia' to become the home of 'Radio Caroline North'. This move assistd Stanley's original plans for upping the power of 'Radio Manx'.
After October 15, 1964, Charles Orr Stanley formally disassociated himself with 'Radio Caroline', although he ensured that the two stations continued to operate, despite the absence of their holding company. An alternative management solution was found. The new plan began almost immediately with help from a journalist who began his career in Falkirk, Scotland; a journalist from Harrow, England, and a journalist in New York City. By conspiring with the deep roots Jewish/Italian Mafia beginnings of rock 'n' roll music, and the record industry, master control of 'Radio Caroline' shifted to New York City.
In March 1965, Part Two of the 'Radio Caroline' fake cover story was trotted out. It begat the totally fictitious and idiotic myth about 6-year-old Caroline Kennedy, and how in a vicarious pedophile manner, 25-year-old Ronan O'Rahilly became enthralled by gyrations on her father's office carpet.
There is a Part Three to the fake cover story about 'Radio Caroline' before it all came to an end in the arms of organized crime accompanied by murder. It will all be revealed in this work that began in the Orwellian year of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. The title of this work, which will be published as a non-time-dated series of part works, is shown below:
The key to understanding what really took place between between January 1959 and March 1968, is by creating a timeline without gaps, and by tracking the movements of any and all 'key players' in this story. This means cross-referencing documentation showing points of origin and establishing authenticity. It includes extending foundational elements back in time to document steps taken that resulted in the secret creation of Radio Caroline.
It is by unmasking the element of secrecy which reveals that a story of limited interest about pop culture during the so-called 'Swinging Sixties', is in fact a bizarre geo-political story involving cuts in truth - the SWINGEING Sixties that attaches itself to the lives of millions of people alive today.
If the true events that took place yesterday remain unknown today, then all actions that are taken today which are based upon a false knowldge of yesterday, can only result in disasters tomorrow.
The problem with secrecy, is that it necessitates the invention of lies. But to unmask one lie by revealing one truth only leads to revealing that more lies exist that also need to be exposed, by additional revelations of truth. It is akin to pulling on a lose thread only to discover that the garment that it is attached to, has now disappeared into a jumble of wool. In this instance, that 'jumble' becomes an uncatagorized collection of dates, names and places lacking a subject matter to relate them to.
That is why the story of 'Radio Caroline' is composed of two versions:
One is true, and one is false.
The fake storyline follows the lives of Ronan O'Rahilly and Ian Cowper Ross, and to a lesser degree, Christopher Moore, but there are others. These people are part of 'The Palimpsest Hoax' intended to divert attention from the real story. It is the fake version which began to flood the marketplace after 1990 when Ian Cowper Ross and the BBC-TV began a publishing and broadcasting campaign of deception. Until then, the name of 'Radio Caroline' had become a matter of only dim recall, if that, to the majority of people. So it is now necessary to not only reveal what 'The Palimpsest Hoax' was concealing, but to unmask the people and their motives for creating it.
Because our key and proven findings about the true story behind the creation of Radio Caroline have now been published in both academic and broadcasting journals, we are now able to reproduce some of that material here. Later this year it will also begin to appear in the 'YesterKey' digest.
However we also offer these words of caution to anyone tempted to reproduce any part of our copyrighted published research as their own work, please take note: We take legal action to protect our work, whether it is the actual story now revealed, or 'The Palimpsest Hoax' exposing the fraudsters.
The fake BBC-TV storyline generated by Ian Cowper Ross is exposed on the link below:
It is by unmasking the element of secrecy which reveals that a story of limited interest about pop culture during the so-called 'Swinging Sixties', is in fact a bizarre geo-political story involving cuts in truth - the SWINGEING Sixties that attaches itself to the lives of millions of people alive today.
If the true events that took place yesterday remain unknown today, then all actions that are taken today which are based upon a false knowldge of yesterday, can only result in disasters tomorrow.
The problem with secrecy, is that it necessitates the invention of lies. But to unmask one lie by revealing one truth only leads to revealing that more lies exist that also need to be exposed, by additional revelations of truth. It is akin to pulling on a lose thread only to discover that the garment that it is attached to, has now disappeared into a jumble of wool. In this instance, that 'jumble' becomes an uncatagorized collection of dates, names and places lacking a subject matter to relate them to.
That is why the story of 'Radio Caroline' is composed of two versions:
One is true, and one is false.
The fake storyline follows the lives of Ronan O'Rahilly and Ian Cowper Ross, and to a lesser degree, Christopher Moore, but there are others. These people are part of 'The Palimpsest Hoax' intended to divert attention from the real story. It is the fake version which began to flood the marketplace after 1990 when Ian Cowper Ross and the BBC-TV began a publishing and broadcasting campaign of deception. Until then, the name of 'Radio Caroline' had become a matter of only dim recall, if that, to the majority of people. So it is now necessary to not only reveal what 'The Palimpsest Hoax' was concealing, but to unmask the people and their motives for creating it.
Because our key and proven findings about the true story behind the creation of Radio Caroline have now been published in both academic and broadcasting journals, we are now able to reproduce some of that material here. Later this year it will also begin to appear in the 'YesterKey' digest.
However we also offer these words of caution to anyone tempted to reproduce any part of our copyrighted published research as their own work, please take note: We take legal action to protect our work, whether it is the actual story now revealed, or 'The Palimpsest Hoax' exposing the fraudsters.
The fake BBC-TV storyline generated by Ian Cowper Ross is exposed on the link below:
Addendum
Since posting the information shown above, a question has been raised about the Pye-Ling die cast pin in relation to the creation of 'Radio Caroline'.
The current phase of this investigation began with a book called 'Radio Man' about the life of Charles Orr Stanley, his son John and the cartel known as the Pye Group of Companies. See page 16: 'The Day I Read page 276 My Knowledge of Radio History Imploded!' - https://museumofcommunication.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/News-94-Spring-2021-page-order.pdf
The current phase of this investigation began with a book called 'Radio Man' about the life of Charles Orr Stanley, his son John and the cartel known as the Pye Group of Companies. See page 16: 'The Day I Read page 276 My Knowledge of Radio History Imploded!' - https://museumofcommunication.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/News-94-Spring-2021-page-order.pdf
The Investigation
On March 17, 2017, in an email from Mervyn Hagger to co-investigator Chris Edwards, the following statement appears:
"I can't help wonder how to explain the obvious US CE equipment on the Fredericia ...."
As a part of our investigation, Chris Edwards reported in an email to Mervyn Hagger:
"Not long been back from Wroughton, managed to get through the 3 'Frankland' boxes,
and beginning to despair of finding anything, and then in almost last box looked in found
the attached."
Chris had found the "smoking gun"! The text in the IEE book 'Radio Man' had been deliberately scrambled to contradict itself.
On April 9, 2017, at 16:21, Mervyn Hagger wrote to the daughter of the deceased Alan Bednall:
"Dear Jane, I have concluded that Nicholas Stanley misled our team as much as he seems
to have used and abused your father. Why, I am not sure - at the moment - unless it is to
protect someone still living who could cause the Stanley family problems. One way in which
this may be possible is if there was some sort of legal settlement involving Nicholas Stanley
personally, and that allowed him to set up the Stanley Foundation. A legal clause might have
included a gag order forbidding him from revealing the true story. My team has spent a
personal fortune and many, many years investigating all of this. We have not solicited or
taken money from anyone and at the moment we have not authorized any full telling of what
we have discovered. However, it seems that your statements point to confirmation of what we
have experienced."
This what Jan Bednall told Mervyn Hagger:
"My father had been very pleased to be interviewed by Mr Stanley but was very disappointed
that he was never given any feedback after the interview and never shown any publication.
He also spoke of being disappointed that Mr Stanley never gave back all the drawings and
designs he gave him. So I believe that the information you want is probably with Mr Stanley."
Mervyn replied to Jane:
"When I personally asked Nicholas Stanley about the source of information for the paragraph
on page 276 of 'Radio Man', he said that it was so long ago and he seemed to recall that it
came from a radio engineer named Hill, but he could tell me no more. Months went by and
after a lot more research, Chris Edwards discovered your father's original statement - which
is totally different from the text in the book. But I also find it peculiar that after your father
told Nicholas that it was one of the most exciting events in his life, and after he went into
great detail about the 'mystery' company, he did not provide its name."
Or did he?
Mervyn Hagger added:
"Since the information in the book is separated out from his main text, so that the paragraph
on page 276 is not attributed to your father (but other information is), and because that
paragraph tells a totally different story to the one your father told Nicholas, and yet it is
obvious that it is the only source of the paragraph on page 276, it points to Nicholas Stanley
not only misdirecting the authors he hired, but also in failing to take down your father's
identification of the company name. Also, because the statement by your father must have
been typed up - probably from an audio recording made by Nicholas - then Nicholas must
have edited your father's statement in order to eliminate the name of the 'mystery' company."
The question then is why would he do this?
Mervyn's emails to Jane added:
"Nicholas received a lot of cash to publish his book after hiring his reputable authors - who
he obviously deceived! The entity which gave Nicholas the cash to set up his Stanley
Foundation may have stipulated conditions. One of them may have been that no mention
was to be made of the company name, and that the information must all relate to Pye and
John and Charles Stanley."
It should have included these words:
Possibly the U.K. Official Secrets Act since the story of Pye has Cold War military connections
to sonar and the U.S. Polaris nuclear submarines based at Holy Loch in Scotland and a
Continental Electronics radio station at Anthorn in Northern England.
It did include these words:
"Right now we are searching back numbers of trade magazines for the period between
late 1962 and early 1963 when the events relating to your father and Radio Caroline
probably took place. It would be many months more before Caroline came on the air
towards the end of March 1964. I will keep you posted, and please let me know if you can
think of any place where we might find the logo and letterhead spoken of by your father."
"I can't help wonder how to explain the obvious US CE equipment on the Fredericia ...."
As a part of our investigation, Chris Edwards reported in an email to Mervyn Hagger:
"Not long been back from Wroughton, managed to get through the 3 'Frankland' boxes,
and beginning to despair of finding anything, and then in almost last box looked in found
the attached."
Chris had found the "smoking gun"! The text in the IEE book 'Radio Man' had been deliberately scrambled to contradict itself.
On April 9, 2017, at 16:21, Mervyn Hagger wrote to the daughter of the deceased Alan Bednall:
"Dear Jane, I have concluded that Nicholas Stanley misled our team as much as he seems
to have used and abused your father. Why, I am not sure - at the moment - unless it is to
protect someone still living who could cause the Stanley family problems. One way in which
this may be possible is if there was some sort of legal settlement involving Nicholas Stanley
personally, and that allowed him to set up the Stanley Foundation. A legal clause might have
included a gag order forbidding him from revealing the true story. My team has spent a
personal fortune and many, many years investigating all of this. We have not solicited or
taken money from anyone and at the moment we have not authorized any full telling of what
we have discovered. However, it seems that your statements point to confirmation of what we
have experienced."
This what Jan Bednall told Mervyn Hagger:
"My father had been very pleased to be interviewed by Mr Stanley but was very disappointed
that he was never given any feedback after the interview and never shown any publication.
He also spoke of being disappointed that Mr Stanley never gave back all the drawings and
designs he gave him. So I believe that the information you want is probably with Mr Stanley."
Mervyn replied to Jane:
"When I personally asked Nicholas Stanley about the source of information for the paragraph
on page 276 of 'Radio Man', he said that it was so long ago and he seemed to recall that it
came from a radio engineer named Hill, but he could tell me no more. Months went by and
after a lot more research, Chris Edwards discovered your father's original statement - which
is totally different from the text in the book. But I also find it peculiar that after your father
told Nicholas that it was one of the most exciting events in his life, and after he went into
great detail about the 'mystery' company, he did not provide its name."
Or did he?
Mervyn Hagger added:
"Since the information in the book is separated out from his main text, so that the paragraph
on page 276 is not attributed to your father (but other information is), and because that
paragraph tells a totally different story to the one your father told Nicholas, and yet it is
obvious that it is the only source of the paragraph on page 276, it points to Nicholas Stanley
not only misdirecting the authors he hired, but also in failing to take down your father's
identification of the company name. Also, because the statement by your father must have
been typed up - probably from an audio recording made by Nicholas - then Nicholas must
have edited your father's statement in order to eliminate the name of the 'mystery' company."
The question then is why would he do this?
Mervyn's emails to Jane added:
"Nicholas received a lot of cash to publish his book after hiring his reputable authors - who
he obviously deceived! The entity which gave Nicholas the cash to set up his Stanley
Foundation may have stipulated conditions. One of them may have been that no mention
was to be made of the company name, and that the information must all relate to Pye and
John and Charles Stanley."
It should have included these words:
Possibly the U.K. Official Secrets Act since the story of Pye has Cold War military connections
to sonar and the U.S. Polaris nuclear submarines based at Holy Loch in Scotland and a
Continental Electronics radio station at Anthorn in Northern England.
It did include these words:
"Right now we are searching back numbers of trade magazines for the period between
late 1962 and early 1963 when the events relating to your father and Radio Caroline
probably took place. It would be many months more before Caroline came on the air
towards the end of March 1964. I will keep you posted, and please let me know if you can
think of any place where we might find the logo and letterhead spoken of by your father."
Our investigation and lines of enquiry pre-date all others!
The Pye History Trust tribute page about Pye-Ling Ltd is to be found at:
https://www.pye-story.org/companies/research-section/ It shows this dateline; October 4, 2021. It is not an original Pye companies' web page (Pye went out of business before the advent of Internet web pages) and their tribute comes with this disclaimer.
This site is the work of several ex-Pye employees, some of whom are members of the Pye History Trust (registered charity number 1162310), the Pye Foundation (registered charity number 267851) and some are Volunteers at the Cambridge Museum of Technology.
In 1966 the original Pye cartel ran into financial trouble and began to disintegrate while becoming absorbed by Phillips. By 1957 they had acquired a majority shareholding. Over the following years, Philips gradually absorbed Pye's companies into their own group, or they sold them or closed them down. By the 1980s, many of the remaining Pye businesses were trading under the Philips brand or grouped under Cambridge Electronic Industries.
Pye-Ling Ltd disappeared into LTV-Ling Inc., and then LTV disappeared!
Pye-Ling Ltd disappeared into LTV-Ling Inc., and then LTV disappeared!
The Story
The first 'key' to unlock this story reveals that LTV in Dallas bought Continental Electronics, and that Continental Electonics transmitters emerged from the pre-WWII pioneering work in Mexico by William Branch. He put WBAP on the air in Fort Worth, Texas. The second 'key' unlocks the relationship between LTV and Pye.
Pye-Ling Ltd became a new combo name for SEVERAL merged Pye companies - but NONE of them were named Pye and they were all described as part of an instrument and scientific group. But since one company had a previous life under another name making audio recording and playback equipment, it also served as a cover for the part it played in the creation of 'Radio Caroline'.
The general classification for this group was vibrating equipment and broadly speaking, this covered both loudspeakers and sonar. It was this company within the Pye-Ling group that was based for a time at the former HM docklands at Sheerness, and that is where the GBOK lightship had been tied up at the wharf outside a Pye warehouse!
Th owner of GBOK was conman Arnold Swanson, and the GBOK lightship did not have any transmitter on board. Swanson was a vacuum cleaner salesman and radio advertising time seller in California who fled a jail sentence because of a radio advertising swindle. He married a shipping heiress with two daughters. She divorced him when she caught him in bed with both of her underage girls. More swindles followed and he eventually went to prison. The entire GBOK episode was a scam from beginning to end, but it roped in a lot of unsuspecting victims of Swanson's deceit.
Alfred Thomas had been a top radio engineer who retired from the BBC and then went work for Pye. Thomas hired ex-BBC senior engineer John Gilman, and ex-Marconi junior employee George Saunders.
Thomas worked on the Mi Amigo at Greenore with ex-CIA man Milan Leggett - who even appears in the Grenada TV 'World in Action' program.
Allan Crawford served as a diversion to attract the attention of the Crown-GPO. The GPO knew nothing about Radio Caroline Ltd (neither do anoraks!) Jocelyn Stevens revealed his involvement a short time after'Radio Caroline' began its test transmissions on March 27, 1964.
The LTV transmitters and a generator were installed on the mv Fredericia at Rotterdam. The ship was then going to be taken to the Isle of Wight for Harry Spencer to install the radio mast. But a tip-off to the GPO about the proto-radioshipTHV Satellite which Allan Crawford had moored there, resulted in fear that the GPO would pounce on the Fredericia. So a last minute switch was made to send the ship to Greenore.
Charles Orr Stanley who built the Pye cartel was an Irishman with companies on BOTH sides of the Irish border.
Ronan O'Rahilly came to London in 1961 and worked for Rachman and his colleague who started 'The Scene' club. It was not owned or created by Ronan O'Rahilly, he was a mere bagman for London pill-pushing crooks.
Pye pulled out of the 'Radio Caroline' venture after October 15, 1964, and that is when the New York Jewish/Italian Mafia took over 'Radio Caroline'. For a time it was managed by Morris Levy in New York until he ran into extensive legal trouble, and then his partner Phillip Solomon took over until March 1968.
Then it was all over, and 'Radio Caroline' was gone for ever.
Anything calling itself 'Radio Caroline' after 1968, was, and still is, a joke using a name to fool anoraks into donating money.
Pye-Ling Ltd became a new combo name for SEVERAL merged Pye companies - but NONE of them were named Pye and they were all described as part of an instrument and scientific group. But since one company had a previous life under another name making audio recording and playback equipment, it also served as a cover for the part it played in the creation of 'Radio Caroline'.
The general classification for this group was vibrating equipment and broadly speaking, this covered both loudspeakers and sonar. It was this company within the Pye-Ling group that was based for a time at the former HM docklands at Sheerness, and that is where the GBOK lightship had been tied up at the wharf outside a Pye warehouse!
Th owner of GBOK was conman Arnold Swanson, and the GBOK lightship did not have any transmitter on board. Swanson was a vacuum cleaner salesman and radio advertising time seller in California who fled a jail sentence because of a radio advertising swindle. He married a shipping heiress with two daughters. She divorced him when she caught him in bed with both of her underage girls. More swindles followed and he eventually went to prison. The entire GBOK episode was a scam from beginning to end, but it roped in a lot of unsuspecting victims of Swanson's deceit.
Alfred Thomas had been a top radio engineer who retired from the BBC and then went work for Pye. Thomas hired ex-BBC senior engineer John Gilman, and ex-Marconi junior employee George Saunders.
Thomas worked on the Mi Amigo at Greenore with ex-CIA man Milan Leggett - who even appears in the Grenada TV 'World in Action' program.
Allan Crawford served as a diversion to attract the attention of the Crown-GPO. The GPO knew nothing about Radio Caroline Ltd (neither do anoraks!) Jocelyn Stevens revealed his involvement a short time after'Radio Caroline' began its test transmissions on March 27, 1964.
The LTV transmitters and a generator were installed on the mv Fredericia at Rotterdam. The ship was then going to be taken to the Isle of Wight for Harry Spencer to install the radio mast. But a tip-off to the GPO about the proto-radioshipTHV Satellite which Allan Crawford had moored there, resulted in fear that the GPO would pounce on the Fredericia. So a last minute switch was made to send the ship to Greenore.
Charles Orr Stanley who built the Pye cartel was an Irishman with companies on BOTH sides of the Irish border.
Ronan O'Rahilly came to London in 1961 and worked for Rachman and his colleague who started 'The Scene' club. It was not owned or created by Ronan O'Rahilly, he was a mere bagman for London pill-pushing crooks.
Pye pulled out of the 'Radio Caroline' venture after October 15, 1964, and that is when the New York Jewish/Italian Mafia took over 'Radio Caroline'. For a time it was managed by Morris Levy in New York until he ran into extensive legal trouble, and then his partner Phillip Solomon took over until March 1968.
Then it was all over, and 'Radio Caroline' was gone for ever.
Anything calling itself 'Radio Caroline' after 1968, was, and still is, a joke using a name to fool anoraks into donating money.
[More to follow.]