Today, January 19, 2022, both the UK and USA are dozing under a deluge of non-important domestic issues while the stage is being set for a potential World War III of nuclear portions that involve possible showdowns with Russia and China.

Behind this geopolitical nightmare are lecturers who inhabit political science classrooms. These are the people who 'advise' political leaders. On a black comedy level, that cluster of 1964 movies called 'Dr Strangelove' (January); 'Seven Days in May' (February) and 'Fail Safe'' (October) came about in the wake of the April 1961 failed invasion of Cuba at the 'Bay of Pigs', and its predecessor the 1961 building of the Berlin Wall by the USSR, in which 'classroom' theorists argued for and against all out nuclear war to bring about a solution to the so-called 'East-West nuclear divide' of geopolitical dominance.

Today we could be witnessing another round in this same silly 'game' which seems to begin after lengthy pauses between sessions. There are two main issues before the classroom clowns who are playing this game, one involves Russia and Ukraine, and the other one involves China and Taiwan. But, if you are just following the order of news shown on television in both the UK and USA, you can easily become distracted by all kinds of domestic trivia that in the long run have no impact whatsoever on the lives of the average person.

What also becomes of interest is that the politicians who mouth the words of their speech-writers who are the spokesmen for the dominant side in the geopolitical classroom debates, is that scrutiny of past actions reveals that the politicians who appear to be saying one thing to the public, are planning on contingency plans to do the exact opposite in private discussions with their 'advisors' - the classroom clowns.

It therefore becomes very interesting to this investigation to follow the events that resulted in what we have termed a 'panic murder' of John F. Kennedy in the middle of the day, in broad daylight, and surrounded by crowds of onlookers, that took place in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. To kill such an important person in such a public manner, not by chance but by design, is illogical. In 2022, to be still asking questions about that event and who perpetrated it and why, seems to be a ridiculous state of affairs, and yet it is true.

Now, in 2022 there exists a mountain of books, articles, news clippings, radio and television documentary recordings that feature two ships: the motor vessels 'Mi Amigo' and 'Olga Patricia'. Both have legacies going back to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the early years of the Nineteen Sixties when the three movies mentioned earlier were being filmed and events tied to the murky assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

But, even though the Internet came along and was then tweaked by the creation of the World Wide Web which supposedly made the Atlantic Ocean that separates the UK and USA evaporate in its divisive importance, the peoples of both the UK and USA are still ignorant about the geopolitical motivations of the leaders of both nations, and they are even less aware of the string-pullers who motivate those leaders from their classroom environments.

So when the focus is drawn specifically to the subject of the radio stations that once operated on board the 'Mi Amigo' and 'Olga Patricia' in the years from 1964 to 1967, it results in half-baked observations based upon limited knowledge by people who want to tell others about those two ships from a now distant past. Yet, those two ships and their prior activities that began in the late Nineteen Fifties that stretched into that time and date in November 1963 when John F. Kennedy was murdered, are central to any understanding about the reason for the creation of 'Radio Caroline' in 1964.

Unfortunately, anoraks are not only the blind are not only the blind leading the way in telling the world about the history of offshore broadcasting, they are also part of the 2022 great-unwashed, who are oblivious to the situation currently facing humanity that can be compared to the Cold War years of the early Nineteen Sixties. If that is not the case, then where else is anyone trying to unravel in a forensic, and court room manner, the actual events that did result in the creation of 'Radio Caroline'.

This Blog and its related sites and publications seem to be alone in that task.

Off topic from our immediate and current theme, but in keeping with our main research and ongoing investigation, we now draw your attention to our revised entry on this Blog for 1/14/2022 

While citing 'And the World Listened' in relation to the non-broadcasting ship 'Ceto' (see link in the paragraph above), we came across what appears to be an out-of-sequence insertion of a paragraph into the time flow of the manuscript of this book. It appears on page 162 and it refers to the 'Caroline Kennedy Hoax' which is stated as fact, even though it is a hoax that first appeared in the Spring of 1965, which is long after the creation of 'Radio Caroline'.

However, this section of the book which includes pages 161 to 163, deals with events in 1955 and 1956, and so the paragraph referred to that appears on page 162, is out of sequence. It appears to be an anecdotal insertion, but it is totally bogus in its content because it is an invented anecdote that never happened in the manner and time described. Plainly put, it is false and it does not belong in this book which does contain some excellent original information about Captain Plugge.

The hardback version of this book by Keith Wallis with an introduction by Professor Sean Street, has become a major source of reference for many publications since it was first published in 2008. Most of the references are in relation to the pre-World War II broadcasting activities of Captain Leonard F. Plugge, and this includes a detailed section about the salvage yacht 'Ceto' that plainly states that it was not a broadcasting ship. Unfortunately the authors seem to have omitted references to the 1927-1928 pioneering BBC broadcasts offshore from the vessel 'Magician'!

Also missing is a detailed explanation regarding the reason why the 'Daily Mail' and 'His Master's Voice' records teamed-up to engage in this publicity stunt involving the salvage yacht 'Ceto'. The story beginning on page 66 refers to Leslie Mainland of the 'Daily Mail'. Who is he? It claims that Mainland consulted Valentine Smith, chief of publicity for the 'Daily Mail' which was part of group of newspapers that included the 'Evening News' and 'Sunday Dispatch' all controlled by Harold Harmsworth who was known as Lord Rothermere.

Then there is the connection with Gordon Fenwick of His Master's Voice records. In 1928, HMV records was a major label created by The Gramophone Company Limited controlled by the U.S. Victor Talking Machine Company which merged with the  Radio Corporation of America in 1929 to become RCA Victor. In 1931,  the Gramophone Company Limited which became a part of RCA Victor, merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to create a new conglomerate under the name of Electric and Musical Industries Limited (EMI).

So who was really pulling the strings to manipulate this publicity stunt?

If the press threads attached to the 'Daily Mail' are followed back in time, they become entangled with an aristocrat with a son who later became attached to Jocelyn Stevens and the beginnings of Radio Caroline in Nineteen Sixty Four.

But if we take another look at the publication year of this book by Keith Wallis, with an introduction by Professor Sean Street, we are now wandering around in that murky year of 1990 when a new UK Broadcasting Act turned the clocks back before 1876 when the 'Hovering Acts' were repealed. It was learning about the repeal of those Acts of Parliament that gave Allan Crawford the 'go ahead' with his plans for 'Radio Atlanta'. That same Act of 1990 also made it impossible for anyone to operate an unlicensed British offshore broadcasting station, including the venture which had adopted the name of 'Radio Caroline' and broadcast from a ship called 'Ross Revenge'!

In addition, the year 1990 cracked open the floodgates to a library of misinformation in books, magazines, newspaper articles as well as radio and television documentaries concerning the 1964 origins of 'Radio Caroline'. Who did these authors think that they were serving? Not students of broadcasting history, nor the fans of offshore radio who called themselves anoraks.

But as time has gone on, the number of books and articles has increased to the point that the absurd publications of Paul Rusling have appeared under the supporting endorsement of a man he calls "Sir Hans Knot"! 

​From yesterday's Blog:
"On June 26, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was in West Berlin where he made his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. He then took off to arrive in Dublin, Ireland, and after a short visit JFK took off over the Irish Sea for London, England where he met U.K. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who took him on June 29, 1963 down to his home in West Sussex for an informal visit."

What JFK was really up to in West Sussex on June 29, 1963, we don't really know, but we do know that it had something to do with a rift in trust between the sharing of nuclear secrets, and a generational reassessment by a young American of an old Englishman. Kennedy was a devious player on the world stage in that he pretended to be what he was not, you see. His nepotistic brother Robert was also playing that same game with the American public via the American press. Both Kennedy brothers pretended to be peace loving guys whose word could be trusted, but in fact both Kennedy brothers were as devious in their own way as the secretive administrators who hid behind the British Crown.

A few months later around Noon on November 22, 1963, JFK was visiting Dallas, Texas in an open top limousine. Just after the clocks that were visible on its city streets reflected a change from half past the hour,  JFK lost part of his head and he died, but today, in 2022, we still don't know why. Some suggest it was because of his brother Robert who worked in a subservient position to John, because to kill Bobby was not to kill the secret operation that Bobby was managing at a CIA base in South Miami, Florida.

John, who pretended not to be involved in a secret CIA operation, was in a position to appoint someone else in the event of Bobby's death. But if JFK died, then there was a good chance that the secret operational base in South Miami would also die. But who knew about that base and what it was doing? On November 22, 1963, just after 12:30 PM, JFK was dead, and although the secret CIA operatives in South Miami did not know it, their jobs were about to evaporate under a new President who had far grander ideas of aggression than merely terrorising Fidel Castro's island nation of Cuba.

The calendar moved on into December 1963 and suddenly the 'Olga Patricia' had become a surplus vessel, and so had the Mi Amigo. But while the 'Olga Patricia' was wrapped around the affairs of Manuel Airtime Buesa who no one really knew, the 'Mi Amigo' trailed back to the City of Assassination known as Dallas, Texas where three men - Murchison Jr; Thompson and McLendon were faced with a problem: quickly disposing of the 'Mi Amigo'. That ship had a history that led  to the CIA because of its ties to Sweden.

Meanwhile, back in June 1963, a young Irishman had been dispatched on a secret mission to try to lease the 'Mi Amigo', but he did not represent the amount of cash necessary to buy it. Now, in December 1963 it was necessary to get rid of the 'Mi Amigo' at any cost in order to transfer it into other hands where press investigators could be led in other directions, and away from the trio in Dallas, Texas.

Ronan O'Rahilly was from Ireland, and so was Charles Orr Stanley who wanted the 'Mi Amigo' as part of his grand plan. So in the closing hours of 1963 the 'Mi Amigo' set off on a trans-Atlantic journey in order to satisfy another secret plan that also involved the procurement of another ship called 'Fredericia', but those plans did not involve the Central Intelligence Agency.

More tomorrow ....

In 1991 Oliver Stone created a movie called 'JFK' which pointed a finger at some characters in New Orleans as the perpetrators behind the murder of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. 

In November 2021, Oliver Stone bounced back on to television screens with a documentary 'follow-up' called 'JFK Revisited'. He reasserted his theory that the 1963 murder had been hushed-up by the 'Warren Report'. To this end he has recently added new documentation regarding the so-called 'magic bullet' and the autopsy of the corpse of John F. Kennedy.

Oliver Stone has also dusted off his original paper trail leading to the people that he says had motivation for pulling their triggers to shoot bullets in the direction of John F. Kennedy. He also says, the primary person who benefited most from the death of John F. Kennedy, was Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson from Texas.

Accepting the new forensic information to be worthy of consideration, and from the standpoint of logic and as the next-in-line beneficiary of the death of John F. Kennedy, that person was obviously manifested as being Vice-President Johnson. Okay, we can accept that as well.

But what is not clear, and what has never been clear, is the motivation for killing President John F. Kennedy in broad daylight and surrounded by onlookers in the heart of the City of Dallas, Texas. That suggests a sort of 'panic' motivation to get the job done within a limited time frame, no matter how difficult the task. That kind of motivation has also been the subject of discussion regarding the potential assassinations of Fidel Castro and Adolph Hitler.

What it does not suggest in those two instances, is some sort of suicide assassination where the job to be done is more important that the one who is to perform that job, and will surrender their own life in doing it. A suicide assassin could easily have 'taken out' both Fidel Castrol and Adolph Hitler. But suicidal assassins do not belong in the recorded legacy of Western culture.

However, the time and location setting for this very public murder of JFK does suggest an event that has the earmarks of desperation where short of suicidal assassination, the killers had to get the job done without fail before a specified deadline. What was that deadline?

While there are a lot of theories about such a deadline and the motivation behind the death of JFK, there are not a lot of facts, but there are a few that need to be considered. One suggested motive was an expansion or curtailment of the Vietnam War.

Vietnam was an open-ended 'problem', first for France and then for the USA that had been dragging on for years, but Oliver Stone pointed to Vietnam as being the cause of the assassination of JFK. However, a closer examination of the principal target does support a Vietnam connection and a companion suggestion that President Kennedy was going to dismantle the CIA is contradicted by the facts that are in evidence.

Let us review the timelines involved, and yes, there is more than one, and yes, they do overlap each other. This means that certain events involving the same characters take place in the same time period, but not within the same designated space of that time period. Events can be kept separate, and the left hand need not know what the right hand is doing. The military refers to this secretive process as a 'need to know', and what a captured operative does not know, that operative cannot disclose to an enemy, even under torture to the extreme end resulting in death. What you don't know, you don't know.

The timeline that we need to reconsider can be split into three main lines for the purpose of this evaluation, but others strands can, and probably should be added. But here we are dealing with basics and not necessarily with the fine details of the story.

We begin with a story of a strange individual who emerged as a U.S. serviceman who worked in Japan at a U.S. air base attached to the flights of the U-2 spy planes. His name is Lee Harvey Oswald who returned to the USA and by September 1959 he was departing from New Orleans on board a ship bound for Le Havre in France, which then set off across the English Channel. At Southampton, England, Lee Harvey Oswald disembarked on October 9, 1959, and the same day, with only $700 in his pocket, he somehow arrived in Helsinki, Finland.

There are a few guesses at to how he accomplished this, but no solid facts, and the investigating U.S. authorities officially reported that they were not sure how he got to Finland and then checked into an expensive hotel with only $700 to his name. But we do know that he was allowed into the USSR and then sent to the City of Minsk in the State of Belarus. Oswald then began work in Minsk as a lathe operator at the Gorizont Electronics Factory,

In March 1961, Oswald, who was 21, met Marina Prusakova who was 19 and six weeks later they were married. A daughter named June was born on February 15, 1962, and then on June 1, 1962, the three of them were given documents and $435.71 to emigrate back to the USA. This time Oswald took a more direct route than the one that took Lee Harvey Oswald to the USSR. In July 1962 he took up residence in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex of Texas.

Oliver Stone  points to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a plan to ramp-up the military war in Vietnam and related countries in South-east Asia. Stone says that the Kennedy brothers were opposed to that idea after they became disillusioned by the CIA after its failed attempt in 1961 to invade the island of Cuba. That plan was inherited by JFK from his predecessor in the Office of President, General Dwight Eisenhower. 

According to the latest output from Oliver Stone, and the mythology in which he has now mixed the latest forensic research into the 'magic bullet' and bogus autopsy, the peace-loving U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his nepotistic brother Robert F. Kennedy, who served his president as U.S. Attorney General, the CIA had to be destroyed.

But is that true?

What the public from that era remembers, is that after the 1961 'Bay of Pigs' fiasco, there came a showdown in 1962 with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and that showdown almost ended in a nuclear World War III.

But while that was taking place in the news headlines, these two conniving individuals (John and Robert), were engaging in a highly secret operation with ominous overtones regarding the the geopolitical future of the USA. Just after the failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy hung the CIA out to dry in public, in private, he was meeting with the CIA Director John McCone and these two created a spin-off of the CIA that was not located in Langley, Virginia, but in South Miami, Florida.

Nosey news reporters were told at the front gate facilities, that the University of South Miami had leased part of its campus once occupied by a helium balloon facility, to a private research company. In reality it was the front entrance to an operation controlling a huge private air force, a fleet of ships, and an army of men who for the most part were based outside of U.S. borders. Day-to-day money transfers were 'washed' via a bank in Miami, but management of this operation called 'Special Group' was vested in the chairmanship of Robert F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C.

Inside the 'Special Group' was an even more secretive operation called 'Special Group (Augmented) or 'SGA'. Its members were charged with overthrowing Castro's government, which in the press, President Kennedy claimed that he would not attempt to do. Using plausible denial, he left the control of the SGA in the hands of his brother RFK who was supported by John McCone (CIA Director); McGeorge Bundy (National Security Adviser); Alexis Johnson (State Department); Roswell Gilpatric (Defence Department); General Lyman Lemnitzer (Joint Chiefs of Staff) and General Maxwell Taylor. Also in attendance when necessary, were Dean Rusk (Secretary of State) and Robert S. McNamara (Secretary of Defence).

The year was 1962 and while Bobby Kennedy kept his head down and his brother just made angry scathing attacks on the CIA in public, one reporter in Miami began wondering about the ownership of various ships that were being tied-up in South Florida waters. One of those vessels was a ship that was under the control of Manuel Airtime Buesa, and he had been a key person in the original landings on the island of Cuba at the 'Bay of Pigs'. President Kennedy succeeded in bribing Fidel Castro for the release of Airtime, as he was often referred to. In fact, President Kennedy welcomed back 'BAM' as he was also known by the reversal of his initials, at a very public ceremony in a very public sports stadium. JFK handled the military colors of Airtime's invading force and promised him that 'BAM's military flag would one day very soon, fly over Havana, Cuba!

Airtime then became involved in one of those strange vessels that docked in a U.S. Air Force pen at South Miami. Its name is 'Olga Patricia'. To cover the real purpose behind the assignment of this vessel when it appeared on Galveston island where it was outfitted with helium cylinders, the press was told that they would inflate high altitude balloons from its decks. This was duly reported by the press. The balloons would be released while the 'Olga Patricia' was in international waters, and samples would be collected by the instruments attached to the balloons. They were looking for signs of nuclear fallout.

However, this CIA ship was not conducting atmospheric research, even though it was launching balloons from its deck. Attached to those balloons were several types of propaganda from toys to literature, and they were released at a certain altitude where they would then descend upon the island of Cuba to be retrieved by ordinary citizens.

In March 1963, during the time that the 'Olga Patricia' was making its home at the Port of Galveston, a vessel named 'Mi Amigo', ex-'Magda Maria'; ex-'Bon Jour' also arrived. The press, being competitive and regionalized in the years before the dawn of the Internet's World Wide Web, managed to assert that the 'Mi Amigo' had been a radio ship attached to the CIA. But further reports noted that its ownership was vested in a trio based in Dallas, Texas. One of these people was a big name connected to Texas oil and engineering. His name is Clint Murchison Jr., and he was an associate of a man who headed a company fulfilling government building contracts. The name of that millionaire is Robert F. Thompson, and both of them were pals on a social level with Gordon McLendon, who with his father, owned movie theatres and broadcasting stations.

McLendon had one other 'asset', he was pals with fellow Texan David Atlee Phillips who was born in nearby Fort Worth. Phillips was a CIA master of 'dirty tricks' and in 1954 he masterminded a plan that led to the overthrow of the government of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz. Phillips engineered the fall of Arbenz with a 'pirate' radio station that broadcast a form of make-believe political theater which claimed that a real rebel army was marching on the capital. To give it a limited fear factor, Phillips had an aircraft drop a bomb or two in the vicinity of the presidential palace. Arbenz fled.

Phillips either learned his craft from McLendon, or McLendon learned his craft from Phillips, because the first thing that McLendon did when he got into sports broadcasting, was to learn how to create fake play-by-play commentary while he was actually sitting in the basement of a hotel in a suburb of Dallas. McLendon was assisted by a person relaying telegraphed information from the actual game, and by special effects personal sitting next to McLendon. From this McLendon was able to build a formidable sports network, long before he turned his attention to pop music.

As time went by McLendon's talents were called upon by CIA operatives running Radio Free Europe, and then, with the help of Murchison and Thompson, they equipped the 'Mi Amigo' as a radio station called 'Nord', and anchored it off Stockholm in the Baltic Sea. Its broadcasts were heard not only in Sweden, but in the captive Baltic States behind the 'Iron Curtain' of the USSR. When the Swedish government made it impossible to continue, in the second half of 1962, the ship was offered for sale to Allan Crawford, an Australian music publisher in England who hoped to use it to 'plug' his own independent record label and artists. That plan failed to take-off and so the ship was taken to Galveston where it was stripped of its broadcasting equipment upon instructions from Bill Weaver, the national manager for McLendon's radio stations.

On June 26, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was in West Berlin where he made his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. He then took off to arrive in Dublin, Ireland, and after a short visit JFK took off over the Irish Sea for London, England where he met U.K. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who took him on June 29, 1963 down to his home in West Sussex for an informal visit.

Meanwhile, in June 1963 while JFK was in Ireland and then in England, a young Irishman named Ronan O'Rahilly who later claimed to be a huge fan of the U.S. President, was not following him in Ireland or in England, but on his way to Houston, Texas. His flight went from London to Idlewild Airport in New York State, and then by another flight to Texas for a journey taking over 15 hours.

The reason why O'Rahilly had to fly from London to New York on the first part of his journey, is that there were no regular direct flights at that time from London to Houston. But it was on the first part of this journey that Ronan O'Rahilly later tied to reading a newspaper or a magazine (the source kept changing with the telling of the story), in which President Kennedy's 5 years-old daughter Caroline was photographed with her younger brother John Jr., in the Oval Office of the White House.

But this fluid story also related to a fictitious scene in which Caroline was shown crawling under the President's desk, and although much later she did indeed crawl under that desk in another photographic sequence, it was John Jr., who was shown on that occasion as the one doing the exploring. However, this apocryphal tale of reminiscence was invented for telling to journalists in 1965, as a means of explaining how Radio Caroline got its name.

The event recalled by O'Rahilly was a phantom, an invention. It never happened. The origin of that story began with a British journalist working in New York in 1965 who successfully used it to persuade the murdered brother of Robert F. Kennedy into playing along with a tabloid publicity stunt.

So while the still living President John F. Kennedy was in Ireland chatting away to his kith and kin, and then informally chatting away with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan about the nuclear missile deterrent that Kennedy's predecessor President General Eisenhower had promised the United Kingdom; Ronan O'Rahilly was visiting a stripped down radio ship docked on the island of Galveston, south of Houston, Texas where he bought a pair of cowboy boots.

Then came the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and it was followed shortly afterwards on November 24, 1963, by the murder of his accused trigger-man Lee Harvey Oswald. That happened while he was in police custody; surrounded by news reporters and captured 'live' for an awestruck television audience to witness for themselves.

Tomorrow we will explain how these factions all come together in a sea of lies and mayhem.

The only 'swinging' in the real Sixties that took place, involved the strangulation of truth and the murder of the President of the United States of America.

The reason is simple: Ronan O'Rahilly never knew the person that Radio Caroline was named after, and he began to invent a totally fictitious tale.

The problem is that so did Ian Cowper Ross.

Christopher Moore just played along with the mythology.

So who knew the real answer?

Jocelyn Stevens.

How did he know?

Well, thereby hangs the entire backstory about 'The Queen' magazine.

In his original version of his 'Bible', Rusling also made up a tale about how Stevens came to own 'The Queen' magazine. Then, after we began to explain who Rusling is and how he got a lot of new information which he tried to graft on to the fictious rubbish spun by O'Rahilly and Ross, he modified his fake tale somewhat, but he still had no idea of what the backstory is, and without knowing that, then he could not understand why Ronan O'Rahilly made up his tale about flying to the northeast of the USA, when he in fact flew to the southeast in June 1963. That is also a date that O'Rahilly never talked about and Rusling tried to work it into his narrative.

Just one problem. Mervyn Hagger is the sole source of information relating to the flight taken by O'Rahilly to Houston, Texas. How did Hagger know? Because Hagger went to live in Texas and he met the people who met with Ronan O'Rahilly!

But then there is the 'Jimmy' story spun by Ian Cowper Ross for his novel. That myth does not square with the O'Rahilly myths, and yet it involves both O'Rahilly and Christopher Moore who then began to promote the Caroline Kennedy myth in the USA during the latter half of 1965.

Such a lot of lies and none of them are compatible!

Meanwhile, the only person who knew the truth was Jocelyn Stevens and he was not talking!

So how did we manage to uncover the true story when everyone else failed?

Well we discovered the origin of the Caroline Kennedy myth by following the career of a journalist from Scotland who was working in London. We also followed the career trail of Beatrix Miller who invented a Style Sheet named after a person named Carolyn who Jocelyn Stevens renamed Caroline.

So who was this person named Carolyn, and how did we manage to track her down?

We followed the trail of her grandfather and father and then we followed his daughter named Carolyn.

Do we have a picture of Carolyn?

Yes, we do!

It was taken in 1965 at Carolyn's garden gate, but unfortunately it is pixelated because it appeared in a newspaper that was scanned and so it lost some of its clarity. Now we are trying to find a good picture of her. 

Is she still alive?

No, she died a few decades ago and she was not that old.

So faced with a lot of questions, Ronan O'Rahilly, not having any real answers, began making stuff up about a 5 years old girl whose father had just been murdered in Dallas, Texas, around the time that the Radio Caroline project was first dreamed up.

Can we prove all of this to court room standards?

You bet!

(Otherwise we would not be telling you this much!)

Now tell all this to OEM; Paul Rusling and his "Sir Hans Knot"; Mike Leonard and all of the many fiction writers such as Keith Skues and of Ray Clark who interviewed the number two liar - Ian Cowper Ross.

We will of course erase all abusive emails from anoraks who are worried that they have been conned by Ronan O'Rahilly and Ian Cowper Ross.

​You have!

​Years ago, before anyone else thought of doing it, a guy by the name of Mike Leonard published a huge encyclopedia of information about offshore broadcasting. For its time it was very good, but then, Mike became careless. He published a second and much, much thinner volume and it was not very good. So Mike's next move was to go 'cyber' and create a 'museum', but some of its information and some of its 'artifacts' are bogus - such as his dedication to perpetuating the myth of the salvage yacht called 'CETO' ....

REVISED TEXT: 1/18/2022 - Please note that the text that follows in this section differs from our original publication of this Blog entry. It has been amended due to an overlooked but unrelated segment in a book referenced below, which in turn has now raised further questions about a sequential chain of bogus information that has been inserted into the timeline of British offshore broadcasting. (An explanation will follow in an updated edition of this Blog.)

There is a BIG problem with Mike Leonard's Internet page, and it is the same one that was promoted by Paul Rusling's "Sir Hans Knot" on his own web page: The CETO was not a radio ship!

So why the big fuss over highlighting something that never was?

Offshore radio enthusiasts are fond of doing that. Readers begin to wonder whether they worship the ships rather attempt to distort broadcasting history, which they most certainly do. In this instance they should have taken note of the text on pages 66-68 headed 'Ships and Stunts' which is part of this book:

However, while this book by Keith Wallis (with the help and endorsement of Professor Sean Street) attempts to document the life and times of Captain Leonard F. Plugge as "a pioneer of commercial radio", when it gets 'off topic', that is, away from the life of Captain Leonard F. Plugge, it also falls victim to a fairly recent attempt (in terms of published 'history' of events), to an overlooked aspect of the passage into UK law of the 1990 Broadcasting Act. The relationship of that Act of the UK Parliament to the subject matter under investigation by this and our companion Blog will be addressed separately.

But the anoraks, the really loony anoraks who seem to worship the idea that a transmitter can be placed on board a ship to broadcast - so long as it is not a BBC broadcast from a BBC radio ship, well they have created this mythology about the salvage yacht CETO, chartered by the 'Daily Mail' as an inshore publicity stunt, in order to obliterate what really happened in 1927, a year before this 'Daily Mail' publicity stunt was ever dreamed of. Yet the brand new British Broadcasting Corporation under the management of John Reith did use a vessel to begin offshore broadcasting in 1927, and then they repeated this achievement in 1928, in the months before the 'Daily Mail' tried to copy the BBC! But there is more! In 1949 the BBC working with Pye, successfully commenced television transmissions from another ship, and as you now know, the censored story of Pye is central to the true story of offshore radio - the story that the anoraks do not want you to know! This is what Mike Leonard has put online - see the image above and then read the text again below:

So, as dutifully noted by Mike Leonard in lockstep with Rusling's "Sir Hans Knot", here is the pitiful excuse why the 'Daily Mail' could not do what the BBC did - or did they? In other words, any radio historian will discover that the 'Daily Mail' rode on the back of the infant BBC to gain publicity. The CETO was not their only neo-BBC cloned idea. In other words, this was never intended to defy the GPO or impact the BBC, it was just a publicity stunt using loudspeakers blasting at the shoreline from within spitting distance (so to speak) of the shoreline!

The bottom line is that anoraks are FRAUDSTERS!

For some silly and totally misleading reason, the average empty-headed and noisy anorak seems to think that recorded music became the driving force behind the creation of 'Radio Caroline'. It was not. But equal, if not of more importance than the real reasons for the completed stage of 1964 broadcasting from an anchored ship, was the reason or rather, the originating force behind the need to go offshore. The power to censor, that is to control, was, and still is, in the hands of the British Crown, a corporation sole. But carrying out the mandates of the British Crown was the General Post Office. To understand how all this came about in the year 1660, you should read our article about the so-called 'Interregnum'. It is not for fools and those who worship the nonsense stories spread by Ronan O'Rahilly, but for those who want real answers. Click here.

As previously reported in this and in our companion Blog, British offshore broadcasting began in 1927 with the BBC, just after it had been licensed as a Crown corporation to take over from the original commercial BBC operation which held an exclusive right to broadcast within the United Kingdom.

The authority granted to the original commercial BBC came from the British Crown through its Post Office. Its power of monopoly over all forms of mass communications can be traced back to 1660, and the dubious establishment of a new monarchy which came into existence following an Act of Oblivion that forbade political discussion of anything that happened prior to that date. The proceeding years were dubbed the 'Interregnum', and they pretended to make the claim that the moment King Charles was executed in 1649, his son who was later dubbed 'King Charles II' (he was never crowned in Scotland), continued the monarchy.

That was not just an untruth, it was a physical impossibility with any foundation in fact.

After the reign of Charles II came an equally murky period when the next king in line was pushed off his throne and had to flee when the invading Dutch Army of William and Mary (whose exploits are still recalled in Northern Ireland by referring to this invader as 'King Billy'), stormed ashore. Calling it a "Glorious" or "Bloodless Revolution" is also a lie. This Dutch Army of King Billy killed its foes to conquer the British Isles. But then, English kids were taught in school that the year 1066 was the last time that a successful invasion had taken place. Of course the Scots don't believe that because they were constantly invaded by the English and their foreign friends.

But history is full of political lies and British history is one big lie.

When it comes to broadcasting history, we only have to look at the output of people like Keith Skues; Ray Clark and Paul Rusling to realize that the lies and deceit continue to this day.

In fact, the entire history of the British monarchy after 1649 is one of concealment, lies, distortions and censorship. This is the aura surrounding the birth of the original British Broadcasting Company Ltd which was followed by the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is also the story behind the story about the creation of British offshore broadcasting which was inaugurated by the 'second' BBC.

For details of the totally corrupted history of the so-called United Kingdom, please read our academic article that is Online and free to read at this location: click here.

On April 2, 1927, the new British Broadcasting Corporation chartered by the British Crown, commenced its first 'live' commentary that was transmitted from offshore (not on land), using a transmitter installed on board the vessel 'Magician'.

This was the first year of broadcasting for the new BBC which had taken over the facilities of the original British Broadcasting Company Limited (formed on October 18, 1922), and registered on December 15, 1922 which then operated under a Crown license until December 31, 1926. The original BBC company was finally liquidated on December 12, 1929.

The vessel used by the BBC was a launch, and not a sea-going ship, because its voyage consisted of following the Oxford and Cambridge university rowers down the Thames River. On board were announcers Oliver 'Gully' Nickalls and Sir John Squire.

Power for the transmitter was supplied from a generator and batteries that were supervised by a radio engineer. The transmission was made to shore by shortwave, where they were then received and retransmitted over BBC land-based stations to listeners.

This 1927 broadcast from offshore was repeated the following year, and in the Nineteen Fifties, the PYE Group of companies headed by Charles Orr Stanley continued in this British offshore radio tradition using another vessel.

​Later still, the PYE Group used their knowledge coupled with a radio engineer who was employed by PYE after his retirement from the BBC, to begin the commercial operation which on March 27, 1964 was publicly identified  as 'Radio Caroline'.

What does a 6-9 years old remember today about events that took place between 1964-1967 without doing any research, and primarily assisted by his 'Pinky'? Or so he claims! In his 'Pinky' he trusts, and all others he disdains (after stealing from them!) But guess what? He finds fools out there who buy his self-published books. No wonder this world is in such a mess.