London 1961

19/4/2024

The year Ronan O'Rahilly arrived in London. It seems a long long time ago when you see these video clips.

Mervyn Hagger

19/4/2024 08:46:08 pm

Glad you put these videos up, because Ray Clark would have you believe that nothing happened between 1961 and 1964 other than a few people tried to start a radio station offshore and then glory be! = along came Ronan O'Rahilly and he alone showed everyone that he could make Britain sing and dance to the sound of a transistor radio. Aside from that, nothing happened during those years.

Wrong!

20/4/2024 10:08:44 am

Show me where Ray Clark has espoused the theory that nothing else happened during that period. I'll wait.......

This is your confessed objective, regardless of evidence one way or the other:

"Before launching a total blitz on RAY CLARK as nothing more than Malcolm Smith's puppet of puke"

Hardly objective is it?

In case you missed it, I got your 'review' of his book on Amazon taken down. They agreed that it broke just about every rule of their community standards. What's next? An investigation into Amazon because they do not permit harassment, bullying and libellous comments?

So you can't stand the truth?

21/4/2024 08:45:04 pm

Wait awhile longer because a truck load of truth is coming your way.

Your name is Wrong?

21/4/2024 08:46:24 pm

Why do anoraks live in dark corners and hide their names?

Anon

23/4/2024 08:00:51 am

"Wait awhile longer because a truck load of truth is coming your way."

What, in another 10 years?

"Why do anoraks.......hide their names?"

They know what you're like.

Mervyn Hagger

20/4/2024 08:04:23 am

Great video selection Mike! I have just watched all of them and all of them hit the nail on the head. Even the JFK visit which resulted in the Polaris nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland.

The Rachman video was also honest - the "West Indians" did indeed thank Peter Rachman who gave shelter to them when no one else would.

What is missing of course is the link from Mandy Rice-Davies to the husband of Kitty Black!

Also missing is an explanation as to how Ronan O'Rahilly could show up with no money and no job in that same same year of 1961 and simply raise thousands where others had failed to launch Radio Caroline.

But then the money did not come from Ian Ross' dad, and Ian Ross was directly tied by marriage into aristocracy and the great Beatles' money swindle of millions, and that is not mentioned either.

Ronan O'Rahilly went to work for Peter Rachman who owned the clubs that anoraks think that he owned - such as The Scene. The same MP who coined the term 'Rachmanism' also called out Ronan O'Rahilly as a front for gangsters and drug pushers to teens.

So much is missing from the basic knowledge of anoraks about very recent history, that it makes you wonder how these idiots vote, but when you look at how easy it has been for Malcolm Smith to fool them into backing a Crown-BBC tiny radio station and think that it is connected to 1964, well it is no wonder that not just Britiain is in a chaotic mess in 2024, but why the world is now tottering on the brink of a nuclear WWIII.

This is no joke.

The anoraks are a menace to both freedom and world peace and there are too many uneducated idiots like them wandering around just like members of any other religious cult. These bigots attack all who disagree with their faith in Ronan O'Rahilly, and faith is all they have, because there is absolutely no truth in anything that Ray Clark is publishing.

I used to think that Paul Rusling was bad, but he is just a petty crook for personal gain, but Ray Clark is a pawn in the hands of the Crown-BBC pushing the drug of misinformation that enslaving the anoraks.

Keep up the good work Mike, because as you are proving, the true story is already out there, but the problem is in getting anoraks to open their mind and see Ray Clark as nothing more than another Minister of (False) Propaganda, Lies and Deceit.

A sense of proportion, please

20/4/2024 10:39:21 am

You have stated yourself in no uncertain terms that Radio Caroline is a tiny, insignificant entity. How them are it's supporters 'a menace to both freedom and world peace'?

The 'anoraks' as you call them, are not the one's who are enslaved. They are free to work on the ship restoration, free to play music, free to enjoy themselves by indulging in a project which interests them.

Have you considered that you are the one who is enslaved by your own obsessions and hate?

I have to say that, with this post, you have taken things to a new level of nonsense.

Your worst nightmare

20/4/2024 08:08:49 pm

Caroline ✔️
Ross Revenge ✔️
Ray Clark✔️

James McGregor

21/4/2024 04:20:05 pm

Ray Clark says people are not sicker than 3 years ago and there will be no more benefits after 12 months being shot up with proven vaccines and unproven telegram books

Onwards and upwards link

20/4/2024 11:27:08 am

Caroline Community Radio has rebranded! Great to see a mix of younger and experienced presenters as Caroline Coastal goes from strength to strength 💪

J Carl Ross

20/4/2024 12:26:43 pm

Mr Hagger continually denies the existence of Mr Ross.

He is incorrect.

J Carl Ross > John Carl Ross > Jimmy Carl Ross. He was known to friends as Jimmy. Look it up. He existed.

Huh?

21/4/2024 08:42:20 pm

Ray Clark has based his entire work of rubbish on the fiction of Ian Ross who spun a tale about a man named 'Jimmy', but he never claimed that the make believe was surnamed Ross. On BBC-TV, after his novel came out, he began to imply that his novel is a true story, and later, he told Ray Clark that parts of it were true.

But the facts show that Ronan O'Rahilly worked for Peter Rachman and that he had nothing to do with money raising for Radio Caroline, and Ian Ross was at the time working off a court fine for causing a road accident. He had nothing to do with the real story.

The fact is that Ray Clark and all of his idiot minions still don't know the true story behind Radio Caroline and you will have to wait until the book '999 for Caroline' appears.

Mervyn Hagger

21/4/2024 10:37:03 pm

Well now, you tipped your hand, didn't you?

We know that you are not Ray Clark and we also know that you have not read his latest book or you would not be dragging up that stupid story from Wikipedia that even Ray Clark laughed off.

You need to read what Mike has written and look at his videos - especially the anti-Irish one, because Ronan happened to be a broke young Irishman when he showed up in 1961, and the only job he could get was working for Peter Rachman.

You see, everything I am hinting at I have proof for, and some people like Mike have seen some of it. He will tell you I am not joking, but you, well you are a just a joke that even Ray Clark would laugh at for not having read his latest drivel.

Mervyn Hagger

21/4/2024 08:14:29 am

A question:

How is it that very clever people show up on the 1% TV program and yet, very clever people buy into the myth that human beings can be in two places at once?

The alibi methodology is used in court rooms - but not when it comes to history. I don't mean variations in the same story, but totally different stories. Both can't be true and courts rule on guilt often based on alibi. But not historians and not certainly not anoraks.

Mike has posted an old BBC-TV Panorama program that shows people in England during 1961 looking down on the Irish as scum. Yet anoraks believe that a broke Irish kid named Ronan O'Rahilly can arrive in London in 1961 and get millionaires to secretly cough up money to finance Radio Caroline.

Of course no such thing happened. Instead, O'Rahilly went to work for Peter Rachman who ran clubs such as 'The Scene' which pushed drugs to kids. All that O'Rahilly did was to act as a bagman along with his minder Jimmy Houlihan.

Ronan O'Rahilly got a job in Krayland, home of the London gangs in the middle of the Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davies affair with John Profumo which involved clubs such as the 'Flamingo'.

Ronan O'Rahilly was out of a job when Peter Rachman died in December 1962 and that is when he worked for the crook who took over Rachman's clubs, and that is also when he first met Allan Crawford - and BOTH Ronan O'Rahilly and Allan Crawford agree on this chronology.

But along comes Ray Clark who pushes three versions of the same stupid story about a 'Jimmy Ross' who never existed. If you read Ian Ross' original story you will discover that 'Jimmy's' last name was NOT Ross. That switcherooo came on the BBC-TV show of 1990 when Ian Ross began to tell everyone that his novel was a true story and that is when 'Jimmy' became Jimmy Ross. Wikipedia anoraks went further and linked 'Jimmy Ross' who never existed, to Ross Frozen Foods. In his first edition, Ray Clark linked Jimmy Ross to Buxted Chicken.

So why are anoraks such stupid people?

Why isn't there one anorak who has the smarts to get on to the 1% Club show on TV? I am not that smart, but I know that human beings can't be in two places at once and I know where Ronan O'Rahilly was from 1961 into 1963. He was in the world of the broke, the scum of London's underworld who were beating people up and stealing their money.

As Richard D on Panorama also pointed out, Ronan O'Rahilly was Irish and the bigoted Londoners of 1961 did not like the Irish any more than they liked 'Coloured' people. Jews had to pretend to be Christians, or keep their religious views out of sight.

Anoraks are really stupid people and Ray Clark is just another petty con man doing the bidding of another fraud named Malcolm Smith who the Crown are using to shut the anoraks up by raising money for an old tub and a tiny licensed radio station.

Our heritage

21/4/2024 11:36:52 pm

The old tub, as you put it is a vessel of significant importance in both the fishing and broadcasting worlds. As you well know it is on the National Historic Ships Register. Why should it not be saved? Do you not care about the preservation of history, or is it,, as I suspect, just the Ross Revenge that you want destroyed?

In Answer to "Anna Philactic"

21/4/2024 12:26:33 pm

"Ray is a broadcasting legend, well respected and a very amenable, modest and kindly character.

You will note that he makes reference to the fact that the full history of Caroline may never be known, in the meantime keep your accusations, character assassinations, conspiracy theories and personal attacks to yourself."

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Oh dear, Ray is either doing a Malcolm Smith and using a fake name, or another anorak is defending his god.

What hangs Ray Clark is not an admission that he is not sure of how Radio Caroline began, but that he has now published 3 editions of his book based upon the 1990 fiction of Ian Cowper Ross.

Ray Clark is only a legend in the sense that he is an arrogant fool in claiming that Ian Ross was telling the truth. Ray Clark should shut up, apologise and offer refunds.

Ray Clark seems to know that he is a liar and a crook taking money under false pretenses to help Malcolm Smith.

He is a legend in the sense that he is a fool and a crook.

Making claims for money and then trying to excuse himself by saying he does not know what in the hell he is talking about, is about the most brazen act of stupidity that only a fool would use as an excuse..

Anna Philactic

21/4/2024 08:56:53 pm

FYI. I am not Ray Clark, nor do I consider him a god. Happy to clear that up.

If you're looking for brazen acts of stupidly, how about stating that Mr Clark said that "he does not know what in the hell he is talking about' and criticising it, when that's not what he said at all. Watch the video.

How about writing a 'book review' that broke just about every rule in the book and expecting it not to be reported and taken down. Now that is stupidity.

How about stating that an official GPO telegram format never existed when there is irrefutable evidence that it did. Now that is stupidity.

Jiggy Pop. I am the passenger I ride and I write

21/4/2024 04:17:20 pm

Criminal Investigation | A Method for Reconstructing the Past

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Those 3 years = 1961-1963 (inclusive)

22/4/2024 07:46:48 am

In those 3 inclusive years 1961 to 1963, the world of today began, and stalled.

2024 is a year frozen in time.

In that time period the USA foisted on to the UK in Scotland, a nuclear submarine base that still patrols the world.

In that same time period the world tottered on the brink of a nuclear World War III. Americans huddled underground in fallout shelters and the British were told that if nuclear war came, their lives were over, there would be no time to warn them. BBC-TV even made a precursory program that was so frightening at the time that it was not shown.

One of those submarines went to the narrows that locked in the Baltic Sea where both Radio Mercur and Radio Nord were anchored. Bill Weaver made it clear that Nord was a CIA venture monitoring USSR nuclear submarines.

Lee Harvey Oswald came to London - before he went to the USSR.

The ship that became the home of Radio England and Britain Radio was a CIA vessel with ties to the disaster at the Bay of Pigs - that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In those 3 inclusive years, Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies became entangled with a spy story involving the USA putting nuclear weapons in West Germany.

Mandy Rice-Davies was also entangled with Peter Rachman who employed Ronan O'Rahilly as one of his 'bagmen', and she came under the management of Kitty Black's husband.

This was the time of the Kray Twins in London who Paul Elvey worked for as an assassin under an American who was a tuned crook working for the US Treasury with a 'front' office on Dean Street in Soho ....

The entire story of Radio Caroline can never be told and understood unless readers know the true and very complicated story which has been classified and which led to the murder of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

But anoraks are trying to keep the lid on the secrecy by pushing the stripped down fiction of Ian Ross about Ronan O'Rahilly.

What this is not, is the story of "a boat that rocked", it is the story of murder, mayhem and potential nuclear word war.

Ray Clark is either stupid or he is the dupe of the cloak and dagger boys who really control international affairs. It is not about music, and it is a story that still remains untold because even the recent attacks between Israel and Iran all hark back the CIA overthrow of the Iranian (Persian) government, to make the world safe for British Petroleum and that was the backdrop to the Texan-Irish construction of REM Island off Holland.

But anoraks know none of this and Ray Clark is either in the dark or he is a paid lackey encouraged at arm's length to write and publish misleading nonsense.

The War Game = 1965 link

22/4/2024 08:27:17 am

The War Game was made in 1965 for BBC-TV but it was too scary to broadcast.

1965 was the year that Radio London began regular broadcasting and it was also the year that the Caroline Kennedy myth was born to conceal the real origin of Radio Caroline.

It was the year that 'The World Tomorrow' broadcasts began daily over offshore radio and it gave meaning to the term 'free radio' because the BBC could not broadcast unauthorized Crown religious and political programs. 'Free radio' was never about music but about unauthorized words.

In 1965 the Crown would disband Parliament (according to this banned BBC film) and therefore the Crown would show who was really running the country.

Watch this movie and you will begin to see what was behind the move to shut down offshore unregulated broadcasting. It was not pop music because the BBC went ahead and created Radio One = minus 'The World Tomorrow' program.

https://archive.org/details/TheWarGame_201405

The anoraks home turf

22/4/2024 09:31:42 am

The War Game was made in 1965 for showing on BBC-TV in 1966, but it was not shown until 1985. The film was shot at various locations in Kent, right on the doorstep of today's anoraks.

Today the anoraks are off in cloud cuckoo-land preferring to believe that 'free radio' is about banning records, when in fact it is about banning freedom of speech that the Crown, and now the anoraks disagree with.

Today the anoraks are anti-free radio and prefer to believe in a silly story about a young Irishman who in reality was shunned by English people because he was Irish, but used as a token Irishman to cover-up the bigotry and racial hatred of the English who built the British Empire upon slavery.

Regarding Mr Hagger.....

22/4/2024 11:46:05 am

I have done some research of my own, prompted by the scathing comments and posts he has made both here and on his Weebly pages.

It is clear that Mr Hagger has a confrontational, aggressive and dismissive attitude which makes it nigh on impossible to discuss matters with him in an intelligent and reasonable manner. This is indeed unfortunate and caused previous collaborators to part ways with him.

His demeanour has seen him either thrown out of online forums relation to radio, the Kennedy's and others or he has left them in a huff.

The common theme is that he has his own viewpoint and will not be swayed from it regardless. On social media posts he deletes any comments that challenge him or are in any way critical.

His JLRI supposedly consists of three individuals, two of whom never contribute, support or back up any of his postings and they remain surprisingly silent.

His posts have become increasingly extreme with his frustration at not being taken seriously or listened to, yet he still believes that he is relevant and will produce some kind of book exposing ' the truth'. This has been promised for decades, with a myriad of excuses as to why it has not come to fruition.

He has obviously put in a great deal of work over the years, as he continually emphasises, but to date it has all come to nought. Regrettably he has now become entangled in his own conspiracy theories paranoia and his hate for certain individuals.

A shame really, but there we are. Perhaps he enjoys all the fuss. Best ignored I suppose, but it is difficult not to challenge some of his more ridiculous and outlandish statements, which he should not be permitted to get away with.

Of course, his recent Amazon 'review' has been deleted, and he only publishes his musings on pages where he or admin here have control. He dare not do so on social media for fear of being taken to task, although he has posted a graphic on one of his Facebook pages which is of no significance. With 900+ followers, one might expect more reaction than one 'like'.

Full of his own importance, he is not important at all. What a waste.

Mervyn Hagger

22/4/2024 08:15:47 pm

Why are anoraks so scared of identifying themselves?

Ray Clark may be the reason why.

Anoraks believe him, but his 3 related books about Radio Caroline all rely upon the myth of 'Jimmy Ross' that they invented after 1990 after Ian Ross published his novel.

So let's look at what Ian Ross wrote under his own name, but as a novel.

The main character is called Paul Shaw. (Not Paul Ross.)

The name of Ronan O'Rahilly does not appear - ever.

The name of Radio Caroline does not appear - ever.

So what's with this 'Jimmy' business?

Because Paul Shaw is supposed to be the son of Jimmy, his father would be Jimmy Shaw - not Jimmy Ross.

Nowhere in the novel does it talk about a late teen named Ian Ross crashing an antique motorbike into a shop window, followed by crashing a Jensen car head-on into a bus, or that he went to hospital and almost lost a foot which earned him the nickname of 'Flipperr'. None of that is in the book. Nor is his appearance in court, his ban from driving and his fine - which resulted in his dad (Charles Edward Ross) getting him a starter job with Stevens Press Ltd.

None of that is in his novel about his real life. Nor is the true story of his half-brother who really did live on King's Road and who really did own a car wash, and a restaurant.

Ian simply stole his identify and called his half-brother Charles by the name of Melville in his novel.

So, since the name Ross never appears in context of the name Jimmy, not even in Ian's novel, then Ray Clark has taken a work of fiction and repackaged it as the 'true story' of Radio Caroline, which it is not.

But how many anoraks actually bought Ian's book or researched anything?

A big fat zero.

That's why the anoraks cling to the wikipedia nonsense about Carl and his fish - when even Ray Clark now laughs that off.

The only reason I post here and on Facebook is to see how anoraks respond, if at all.

My serious stuff is posted elsewhere.

Ray Clark's stuff is merely pop art for anoraks.

If you want me to take you seriously, please use a real identity and please cite specific areas where you find errors and explain your reasons for saying so.

ANORAK CHALLENGE

23/4/2024 09:38:03 am

Always afraid to reveal themselves, their latest anonymous comment reveals their problem: "It is clear that Mr Hagger has a confrontational, aggressive and dismissive attitude which makes it nigh on impossible to discuss matters with him in an intelligent and reasonable manner."

The reason I have no time for stupid people is that for years the team I am working with has spent a lot of money (their own) and time revealing BIG problems in the propaganda of the Ross/O'Rahilly ilk and asked for input. But their is no input only more stupidity (such as the Jimmy Carl Ross kind.)

If it was simply a matter of publishing the authentic history of offshore radio that would be a simple matter. In fact, our academic series began doing just that and it has been followed by a long series of in-depth monographs which the anoraks seem to be unaware of.

But the trouble is that just like other religious cultists who preach a dogma that they will never, ever admit is both silly and untrue, the anoraks close their eyes and plug their ears to the evidence that is documented to academic standards.

So what to do?

If you were JWs on my doorstep I would shut the door as soon as I saw who you are. I have no time to waste on nonsense. Same goes for Flat Earth believers. This religious confrontation has always been the cause of war and it is today. But does that mean that religious idiots like the anoraks should be pandered to, or should I just slam the door in their faces?

If anoraks came along and wanted a true discussion by asking real questions and wanting to know why I claim that their beliefs are based on hot air from preachers like Ray Clark and Malcolm Smith, I would not only explain that these two are in it for vanity and personal gain, but then anoraks would read and begin to understand that what Clark and Smith are doing is a crime against humanity.

So, ask real questions by all means and you will always get a civil and polite answer from me. In fact, you would be surprised at the intellectual leeway I give to others who straddle both sides of the fence - because they are honest and descent people.

Ray Clark, Malcolm Smith and their tribe of followers are anything but honest and descent and that is why I have no time for them at all.

So go ahead and ask me a sensible question about the claims made by Ross and O'Rahilly, or is that against your ex-communicating religious beliefs?

Trevor King

23/4/2024 12:00:06 pm

Do you agree that the name Jimmy Ross was mentioned in reference to Radio Caroline in the Telegraph of December 1965? That was well before 1990 and blows your theory out of the water.

Mervyn Hagger

23/4/2024 05:22:35 pm

Thank you Trevor, I appreciate your question and I will provide you with an answer.

I am well aware of this lone reference in the Daily Telegraph, and as for your reference to Chris Edwards we both worked on resolving this mystery.

At first our academic series bought into the entire Ronan O'Rahilly story involving Georgie Fame and Caroline Kennedy. You can find out 2009 academic article here, and it has not been amended. http://foundthreads.com/PDF%20FILES/08-A-CAROLINE.pdf

But after being given all of Don Pierson's legal and financial material about Radio London, Radio England and Britain Radio, we began to stumble into a related CIA and Kennedy Assassination story that no one wanted to discuss - including Don Pierson. I made the only audio interview with him and at one point when I raised this issue, he made me stop the recording, and even though we were friends and in business together, he told me that if I ever asked him a similar question again, he was sever all links to me and to Genie Baskir who also worked with him.

I shared all of this with Svenn in Norway who has a huge file on line and Svenn who became a great friend of mine, kept nagging at me to find out why the secrecy and to discover what became of the Olga Patricia.

We did discover the answers and they are very different from the anorak tale. I worked with Ben Toney on reviving WRL with Don Pierson and Ben then did the dirty and wrote a totally untrue story which is still on file with the Paynes. Ben Toney stayed in my home and he knew my wife. But if you read the Paynes; story Ben Toney brushes it all off and talks about my "girl friend."

However, the truth is on line and you can hear me introduce Ben Toney on XERF as the Managing Director of WRLI - https://www.mixcloud.com/mervyn-hagger/xerf-with-ben-toney-and-john-england-start-of-the-wrli-project/ - and there a lot of other airchecks including one from Steve England where he admitted that no one knew the story until I came along.

So when it came to Radio Caroline I was due to give a standard lecture about the start of the station - but I had just read 'Radio Man' about Charles Orr Stanley, and this contradicted everything I thought I knew. So in cooperation with Chris Edwards (we shared the research cost), we went on a hunt (for years) to find the true story. We found it and I wrote another monograph about that.

But, then Chris stopped his research and our team continued. We eventually discovered how Ian Cowper Ross had written a novel in 1990 and then appeared on BBC-TV to turn his novel into a work of fact. But it is not. It is fiction and 99% of all of the anorak publications have appeared since then and they are all based upon the Ian Ross fiction.

But, while Paul Rusling visited our library and stole our research, he told me personally that he finds research boring and so he tried to hammer our material into the Ian Ross fable.

But then along came Ray Clark working with Malcolm Smith and this is where corruptions, lies and obtaining money under false pretenses have taken over and engaged in criminal theft.

I bought all of Ray Clark's books and so I know exactly what he wrote and published, and it is all hocus-pocus - intentional misdirection and deception for commercial financial gain. He even engaged Ian Cowper Ross to prop-up his lies, but we have HUGE files on all these people - including the Ross family and everything that Ronan said and Ian embellished is a 100% LIE!

Our team can prove this.

Now that one mention of a Jimmy Ross in conjunction with a mention of John Sheffield has no legs. It has no sources, nothing to back it up and explain what it means. But there is no doubt that Ian Cowper Ross used that single clipping and turned it into an entire wok of fiction.

We have a HUGE dossier on the entire Ross family - including Ian - and I can tell you for a fact that it has NOTHING to do with the financing of Radio Caroline.

There are 2 main sections to the Radio Caroline story. 1 goes from October 1963 to October 1964 when Charles Orr Stanley (Pye) was running the show, and then, after the Tories lost the 1964 General Election - British Crime Gangs took over in association with the New York Mafia - which is how Jack Spector got involved.

Yes, our team can prove all of this. But the big problem is that instead of just telling the authentic story, we have to deal with the FAKE story being pushed by Ray Clark, Malcolm Smith and the BBC.

I have been candid with you and answered in depth your brief question. Please be good and honest enough to admit this response, and don't immediately jump on the side of Ray Clark, Malcolm Smith and the BBC with more lies.

Again, I appreciate your honest question.

And on Gary's dying board as well

23/4/2024 04:21:05 pm

Posted by Trevor King on April 23, 2024, 12:45 pm

I know you prefer to keep this a Hagger free zone, but I can’t help but raise a question that he refuses to acknowledge.

He goes on and on saying that the “Caroline myth” as he sometimes calls it, is based on a 1990 novel by Ian Ross. Central to the “myth” is the name Jimmy Ross who Hagger claims never existed.

However, in a Daily Telegraph piece in December 1965 the name Jimmy Ross does appear in relation to Radio Caroline. That suggests that Hagger’s theory is simply not true.

This was raised by Chris Edwards and ignored by Hagger.

Who is actually telling lies?

Mike Wilson (Admin)

23/4/2024 04:32:12 pm

You are seeing bits of a jigsaw, you will have to wait for it to be completed. As for telling lies, well Ronan never did eh? Caroline has been awash with misinformation and lies from the day it began. I don't think either Mervyn or Chris are telling lies, they are coming at the subject with different levels of information. Both have their research and this will eventually be clarified. Once you strip out all the anorak emotion and blind faith in a narrative from other anoraks you can begin to see another story line. For me, at the moment it's one press article versus a ton of other documents, articles etc that are telling a very different story.

Mervyn Hagger

23/4/2024 05:25:24 pm

Thanks Mike, I appreciate your comments. Please see my response regarding the shared input by Chris Edwards who helped to force open the door to finding the authentic story of Radio Caroline.

Trevor King

23/4/2024 05:10:32 pm

However that press article contains a name that Hagger insists didn’t exist before 1990 and is the foundation of the lies. He is obviously wrong as the name did exist in relation to Radio Caroline in 1965 or before. Yes it is a jigsaw, but some pieces fit snuggly whereas others are being forced in place. I think all parties are forcing some pieces into the jigsaw.

Chris Edwards

24/4/2024 03:49:24 pm

Trevor, you’ve hit the nail on the head with the analogy to a jigsaw puzzle. It was probably the main reason I left Mervyn’s “investigation” as I felt that pieces of theory and speculation were being forced in, or conversely dismissed.
They may have been right, but equally they may have been wrong. If it is a “forensic” investigation, it should only deal in proven facts, with documentation and witness statements (ie talking to people).
There is only limited documentation, and as most of the key people of offshore radio are no longer with us, I’m afraid we’ll never know the whole story.

Working with Hagger

24/4/2024 07:31:33 pm

Chris has also hit the nail on the head with regard to working with Hagger and his attitude. Amusingly the latter refers to the parting of the ways thus:

"But, then Chris stopped his research and our team continued."

I also wonder how many were in Hagger's 'team' at that time. I'm thinking one.

Mervyn Hagger

24/4/2024 05:23:23 pm

Okay Trevor King, and who is this person you refer to? It is not Ian Ross' father because his name is Charles. So who is Jimmy Ross? Why doesn't that name appear anywhere else?

On Garry Stevens' Board

23/4/2024 05:27:38 pm

Posted by Trevor King on April 23, 2024, 12:45 pm
I know you prefer to keep this a Hagger free zone, but I can’t help but raise a question that he refuses to acknowledge.

He goes on and on saying that the “Caroline myth” as he sometimes calls it, is based on a 1990 novel by Ian Ross. Central to the “myth” is the name Jimmy Ross who Hagger claims never existed.

However, in a Daily Telegraph piece in December 1965 the name Jimmy Ross does appear in relation to Radio Caroline. That suggests that Hagger’s theory is simply not true.

This was raised by Chris Edwards and ignored by Hagger.

Who is actually telling lies?

Mervyn Hagger

24/4/2024 05:28:44 pm

The name "Jimmy Ross' does not appear in the Ian Ross book. His fictitious character is Jimmy Shaw.

It is RAY CLARK who has turned the fictitious Jimmy Shaw into Charles Ross (Jimmy).

Have you ever read Ian Ross' novel?

Ray Clark conspired with Ian Ross to invent a Jimmy Ross as described by Ray Clark and Ian Ross - that is NOT what the Daily Telegraph says.

If offshore radio helps promote freedom and democracy while stirring up wars why does all seeing Sunak not overturn the MOA as easily as overruling deportation to Rwanda and anything else he wants to rule over to stay a ruler

23/4/2024 06:41:21 pm

The PM says an extra £75bn over six years will put the UK's defence industry on a "war footing".

WHY ARE WE ON A WAR FOOTING?

Ministers call for defence spending of 2.5% of GDP

WHO REALLY IS THREATENING US FROM OUTSIDE RATHER THAN FROM OUR DOMESTIC PRODUCT WITHIN?

Sunak to pledge £500m more to support Ukraine

WHAT HAPPENDED TO THE COVID PLEDGE THAT SUPPORT FOR DOORWAY DWELLING MEANT THAT HOMELESSNESS WOULD BE ERADICATED AFTER THAT?

ANSWER - BY ARRESTING DOORWAY DWELLERS

+_+

WHY DO THOSE IN CHARGE KEEP CHANTING BEST TIME FOR FREEDOM EVER - WHILE CONTINUALLY CONTROLLING, CENSORING, ENSLAVING AND THEN STILL SAYING THERE IS STILL MORE ROOM AND MONEY FOR A WAR FOOTING OF AGGRESSION TO KEEP THE (OUR) PEACE AND PROSPERITY

ARE THESE PEOPLE NUTS?

IF BOJO HAD COME OUT WITH HALF OF THE RISHI SLUSH HE HAS IN HIS TERM HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FORCED OUT BY NOW

STICK TO HELPING THE WIFE WITH THE THE DISHWASHER AND THE HOUSHOLD CHORES PM

CAUSE YOU ARE NO GOOD AS A FREETHINKING MAN AND A LEADER

AND DON'T GET SMUG STARMER - CAUSE YOU ARE NOT KING KENNEDY EITHER

KING CANUTE MAYBE - GHANDI OR O'RAHILLY - NO

Posted by Fred Bramley on April 23, 2024, 5:29 pm, in reply to "Jimmy Ross"

23/4/2024 09:41:15 pm

Posted by Fred Bramley on April 23, 2024, 5:29 pm, in reply to "Jimmy Ross"
The book Rocking the Boat has nothing to do with radio Caroline, set in Liverpool, characters have trips to Carnaby street market (only connection)
Mervyn Hagger claims this as research for his Acrobat PDF manuscript `Dial 999 for Caroline`
His padding includes late HRH Princess Margaret
being instrumental to foundation of radio Caroline

24th April 1916, Easter Rising, Aonghus O`Rahilly
was connected to a small group sending Morse-code transmission on short-wave. If certain people write nonsense for 20+years & challenge historical evidence, they are unlikely to find any publisher
Risking professional reputation on pulp-fiction.

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Mervyn Hagger responds:

Now that didn't take long to appear, did it?

"Fred Bramley" has for years asserted that 'Dial 999 for Caroline" is based upon Ian Ross' novel, but the only person of late to assert Ian Ross' novel is fact, is Ray Clark.

Not me!

I say the exact opposite!

Where this bit about 'Princess Margaret' comes in, I am not sure, but "Fred Bramley" claims that 'Dial 999 for Caroline' is also based upon her involvement in Radio Caroline.

Now the anoraks can't have it both ways!

One lot led by Ray Clark claims that Ian Ross is telling the truth about 'Jimmy' whose last name in Ian's novel is Shaw - not Ross - but Ray Clark ignores that and calls Ian's father 'Charles Ross (Jimmy)' in his latest book index.

So please tell me what exactly you anoraks believe, because what you believe that I believe (according to "Fred Bramley") is not true at all.

We know that Paul Rusling is just a petty thief and a liar, but what is going on with Ray Clark and Malcolm Smith?

This "Fred Bramley" has never claimed anything different to what he is claiming now, and what he is claiming now is also 100% false.

This is very confusing.

Anoraks seem to be divided into two camps - one believes Ian Ross and Ray Clark, and the longstanding "Fred Bramley" camp does not.

In an earlier post in response to a sensible question, I politely stated what our research has uncovered (with help from Chris Edwards), but this latest attack on me personally is ridiculous.

Please explain who "Fred Bramley" really is and why he appears to be both attacking me AND Ray Clark. I don't accept Ian Ross' book as true, but Ray Clark does, and I don't believe anything that Ray Clark has written about the start of Radio Caroline is true.

Come in anoraks - explain yourselves.

Exhibit 'A' link

24/4/2024 12:07:28 pm

"All of this goes to debunk in total, the lies spread by Ronan O'Rahilly and others, about the so-called 'merger' of Atlanta and Caroline, and the so-called take-over of Project Atlanta Limited by Planet Productions Limited, together with any lingering notion that 'Radio Caroline' was in any way, shape, form or fashion, a rebellion against the British Crown Establishment, but rather a rebellion within the British Crown Establishment led by Princess Margaret and supported by elements within the electronics industry and by top engineers from the British Broadcasting Corporation."

Mervyn Hagger

24/4/2024 07:28:33 pm

Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, for 8/31/2021 when it was written and published, it was spot on target.Since then we have discovered everything there is to know about a lot of other people - including Kitty Black who married a man who became very influential in the Radio Caroline story. It is a pity that anoraks have instead bought into a lie spun by Ray Clark to assist Malcolm Smith.

Dr Doolittle Reading

24/4/2024 01:11:34 pm

And who is visiting the chimpanzee zoo today?

"Learn how the world works. Challenge the statements and intentions of those who seek to control us behind a facade of democracy and monarchy. Unite in common purpose and common principle to design, build, document, finance and defend. Learn. Challenge. Act. Now." - Julian Assange

Free Julian Assange and jail Ray Clark

Thank you for applying to join Knowitall's Ark

Thank you for your application to be a Malcolm Smith knitwit woollen sheep

Trevor King

24/4/2024 10:59:46 am

I don’t really care who Fred Bramley is as I don’t comprehend most of what he writes. What I do care about is for Mervyn Hagger to accept the FACT that the name Jimmy Ross existed in relation to Radio Caroline, many years before 1990. Therefore, his line about the name being an invention is untrue. If he ignores the question then I will take that as his answer.

Mervyn Hagger

24/4/2024 07:34:54 pm

So Trevor, who is/was this one mention of 'Jimmy Ross'?

It was not Charles Ross and it was not 'Jimmy Shaw'.

So, since your whole world depends on this single reference which only became of importance to you after 1990 when Ian Ross wrote about 'Jimmy Shaw' and Ray Clark turned 'Jimmy Shaw' into 'Jimmy Ross', who was this original mention of 'Jimmy Ross' because he was not the fictitious 'Jimmy Shaw' because it would be decades later that this fictitious person came into existence in a 1990 novel.

Over to you Trevor. This is YOUR big play, so please enlighten us who this original reference refers to.

Trevor King

25/4/2024 03:27:09 pm

I refer to your ramblings on 13th February 2021, “The Jimmy who never was”. According to the Telegraph, he definitely was!

Mervyn Hagger

24/4/2024 05:31:31 pm

I want an anorak to show me proof of how Jimmy Ross in the Daily Telegraph became Charles Ross (Jimmy) in Ray Clark's book.

Ian Ross called his fictitious character Jimmy Shaw.

Ronan O'Rahilly is never mentioned and neither is Radio Caroline in the Ian Ross novel.

The Delusion Game

24/4/2024 06:43:32 pm

The Nazi propaganda minister used the theory that if you repeat a lie regularly it becomes the truth in most minds. Sadly the German nation of that time swallowed the lies and followed the leader.

After 60 years of 'believing' that Ronan founded Caroline, that Atlanta went bust and that it was all about the pop music and dj's these now aged and mainly male Anoraks cannot cope with the frustrations of Mervyn screaming at them to wake up. So ignore the message and ridicule the messenger because he is "a nasty rude man."

Well you snowflake anoraks, except when it's your turn to be offensive, you know who you are for example Board Watcher, Trevor (new made up name) King, Fred Bramlune and the rest of you, carry on clutching to your rose tinted view of yesteryear, and follow the collective mind of the grey faceless majority as you age a little more each day.

Trevor King

24/4/2024 06:53:25 pm

There he goes. You ask a simple relevant question, he can’t answer and then he gets nasty.

Over and out!

IP Detector Van

25/4/2024 02:48:41 pm

Trevor King is another made up name by someone who has appeared here many times under differing guises.

I'm told Board Watcher has given up on this place, no loss there, yet another antagonist that can never be wrong.

Fred Bramley is now appearing in in Cinderella at the Palladium, he's the rear end of the pantomime horse, now who on earth could it be at the front with Fred's head pressing closely to his rear end??

Scottg

24/4/2024 07:07:15 pm

Trevor King, as always he never answers the question. Always a devil's answer and twists it. On many years of saying a book (or books) up to the present day are on the way and none. He has additional extended details with is effectively irrelevant on previous published hard copiy. The claim based on 'academic' signifies that he ithinks he is superior to others. After many years he has proven he still does not know the 1963 - 1964 of the formation of what was known as the the original Radio Caroline ( ignore Ronan O'Rahilly), he was only the figurehead, and his father controlled Greenore. Scottg.

If sexual orientation pronowns are all important why does no one identify as wanker? It can't be as embarrassing as dog or unsure it

25/4/2024 12:04:20 am

naomi
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Notice how the migrants only have two genders but we have 12!

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12?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/25/bbc-staff-told-150-genders-diversity-training-sessions/

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It's to keep our youth confused and to keep them struggling with their mental health so much so they won't notice what is going on in the world!!. Its a farce!

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Chris Edwards (2015) has been misquoted by "Trevor King"

25/4/2024 08:33:02 am

From: [email protected]

Subject: Re: The veracity of Ronan O'Rahilly
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 14:40:10 +0100

We know that the Ronan version of the story is full of Irish blarney and much exaggeration, and a lot can be disproved by checking documented facts ..... Incidentally the only reference to Ronan calling Ian Ross' father Jimmy come from Ian's part fictional story as far as I'm aware.

Chris

Chris Edwards

25/4/2024 03:51:49 pm

This would be an e-mail I'd written to Mervyn, at time I was still helping him, and he (or was it supposedly Caroline Brooks - whatever happened to her?) was dissecting Ian Ross's book looking for clues. I wasn't aware of the Telegraph item then.
I do wonder why Mervyn hasn't asked Ian Ross about his father. Ian is still alive and I believe living in the USA.

Caroline Brooks et al

26/4/2024 07:47:59 pm

She still has her Facebook page with 699 friends and this is one of her posts. There she explains her inspiration for writing a book about pirate radio, which she obviously has not finished yet. 😆

"When the virus began to shut everything down in DC it was obvious that my job as an intern was going to be shut down like everything else. So I decided to go and mind my uncle's equally silent antiques business in Canton, Texas.

I stopped off at his house in Scotland, yes there is such a place and it even has its own Post Office. My uncle Tom Haler gave me the keys and a pile of books and a couple of movies to watch and pass the time.

One of the books is 'The Big Sleep' by Raymond Chandler which they made into a movie - which my uncle handed to me. I watched it while reading the book. What a mess. How did this movie ever become a classic?

The book was cobbled together by Chandler from his own short stories that had been previously published and book gets into some heavy sexual relations for that time. But when the movie was made all that was cut out and it leaves the viewer wondering what the fuss was all about as far as the plot is concerned, which by the way, no longer makes any sense.

My uncle is a PI and he was dressing like Bogart when he came down to open up his large antiques showroom. He sort of played the part. I suppose it was Bogart and Bacall who 'made' the movie, but you end up following them and not the plot which was gutted by the film censors.

Anyway, he also loaded me up with a bunch of books about the 1960s and pirate radio ships, and, an equally stupid movie called 'Pirate Radio' (it had another title in the UK and was about half and hour longer.) Well, this is another book-film mess like 'The Big Sleep' which is a noir euphemism for death.

It gave me the idea of writing a book about all this to pass away the time. In my mind I am balancing film censors of the 1940s and music censors of the 1960s with suggestions by my uncle who seems to have his left foot in the 40s and his right foot in the 60s while living his life as a PI today. Well, he was until this Virus came along and now everyone is sitting around filling up the life with projects, or getting bored.

At least Canton is in the great East Texas countryside but the only problem being that as days go by the temperature starts to rise and everyone wants to retreat under air conditioning.

If you have read 'The Big Sleep' and seen the movie, let me know what you think."

This was of course when the blog was hers, as she explains:

"I have a blog which developed after a person absconded with some of our research and published a plagiarized version of their own. My blog has now 'evolved' to a point where it is taking on a life of its own."

Caroline Brooks is, of course the invention of Mervyn Hagger. When he got called out for using a library image purporting to be CB, he hastily put up another image and, for credibility, set up the Facebook page for CB.

When a reverse image search proved that CB was in fact Emma Baskir, he stated that CB was one of Emma's aliases.

All complete nonsense, of course.

Mervyn Hagger

26/4/2024 09:38:53 pm

Nice to hear from you Chris.

In answer to your several questions:

Genie decided to be herself, because at the time of 'Caroline Brooks' there were family reasons why she could not use her own identity at that time, and while it created a problem, research continued long after the 'Radio Man' investigation.

What has been uncovered since then is absolutely staggering. Just about everything written by Ray Clark about the start of Radio Caroline is a lie.

I have no need to talk to Ian Ross since I have an enormous file on him, his marriage and his parents and their parents. Everything that Ian Ross has said to date is also a lie.

More surprising was the discovery that Kitty Black was married and who she married, and with that discovery the entire false story about Radio Caroline collapsed and suddenly, at least 90% of the mystery disappeared.

The authentic story of Radio Caroline will be published and narrated by Genie Baskir under the title 'Dial 999 for Caroline', and other books will follow.

In the meantime, publication of our monographs has not ceased.

By the way, I do give full credit to you in helping me to find the answer to that first big mystery, because on my own, due to my location and circumstances at that time, I could never have found the answers by myself, so thank you again.

Mervyn Hagger

27/4/2024 10:53:53 am

Chris, are you saying that you stopped all real research and that you have reverted to believing and repeating liars like Ian Cowper Ross say to idiots like Ray Clark?

Even Paul Rusling was honest enough to tell me to my face that he had no time for research because it was boring and he had a family to feed. So Rusling simply stole what he could use to support lies and distortions of Ronan O'Rahilly.

That means the team I am working with (Genie and Eric) are the ONLY team doing honest research and the 3 of us are paying for it. We have not received income from any other source so we do not owe anyone, anything.

We simply follow the story in the same way that news reporters once did.

Aside from the mantra of who, what, when, how and why, we operate on the basis that human being can only occupy one space at a time. That how we know that Ian Ross is a liar and we also know who he is, who his parents really are, who his grandparents are, and we also know all about his marriage and his aristocratic in-laws and their links to the theft of millions of Pounds from the Beatles resulting in the suicide (murder?) of Brian Epstein, and the hanging of his lawyer!

We also know all about Kitty Black, the so-called spinster who never married: HA!

That is a joke.

If you know her story that you will know all about 'Caroline House' and the raid on Radio City and why Allan Crawford wanted nothing to do with it.

Susan Calvert is the ONLY person I know of who has come close to knowing what really happened on Shivering Sands, but without knowing about Kitty Black and more about Paul Elvey and the Krays, even she does not know the full story as of now (unless she is presently updating her book with more info.)

But our group does know.

Research that costs both time and money and an open mind are requirements, but anoraks are the nearest thing to dumb religious cultists following a leader that I know of. No wonder it only takes a leader like Hitler to turn the world upside down, because it is so easy to recruit jackbooted thugs who rape and kill.

Think Jimmy Saville.

Think Ugly Ray Teret and many other pirate radio djs.

Yes, there were some honest guys in the bunch, but there were also many who you would hate to really associate with.

Ronan O'Rahilly was no shining angel, he was a dupe leading dupes for cash.

Hell yes, I am furious at how stupid people can be and then they wonder how on earth the Post Office Scandal could have taken place.

Just think of Ronan O'Rahilly, Ian Cowper Ross, Ray Clark, Paul Rusling and the list goes on and on and on ....

From 9/12/2021 and read by anoraks ....

25/4/2024 10:33:17 am

On page 535 of Mike Leonard's massive encyclopedia about offshore broadcasting that he published in the year 1996, there is an addendum to the big lie that first appeared in the storyline of a novel written by Ian Cowper Ross in 1990. Mike Leonard does not promote that lie, he reports what he has learned about plans for the BBC to promote that lie!

The BBC were entertaining plans for a 4-part television series about a family called 'Shaw', and the main storyteller in the novel and therefore on the screen, would be a character called 'Paul Shaw'. Who would play the part of 'Paul Shaw' we do not know - unless the BBC in 1994, were about to let Ian Cowper Ross expand upon his fake interpretation of his 1990 novel which he did on BBC-TV in a 1991 documentary, so that Ian Cowper Ross acted out the part of 'Paul Shaw'. But we don't know what would have happened because the 4-part series was never made.

In his 1990 novel, the character called 'Paul Shaw' has a father named 'Jim Shaw', who another fictitious character named 'Liam O'Mahoney' addresses as 'Jimmy'. Not 'Jimmy Shaw', just 'Jimmy', even though his fictitious son named 'Paul Shaw' says that his father's proper name is 'Jim', not 'James', just 'Jim'. But then, it is all fiction.

One year later in 1991, on BBC-TV, the same Ian Cowper Ross tells the audience that the 'Jimmy' is how Ronan O'Rahilly addressed his real father who is named Charles Edward Ross, and that the car ride described in his novel about the fictitious 'Paul Shaw', and the correspondingly fictitious meeting of 'Liam O'Mahoney' with 'Jim Shaw', is a true account of an event that did take place.

That is because, claimed Ian Cowper Ross in 1991, 'Liam O'Mahoney' is really Ronan O'Rahilly and 'Jim Shaw' who 'Liam O'Mahoney' calls 'Jimmy', is really Charles Edward Ross.

To get around the complexity of telling all that to a television audience, Ian Cowper Ross, who keeps touching his nose on the 1991 BBC-TV documenary in the way that someone who is 'only kidding' does, never made that direct link.

What Ian Cowper Ross did was to keep referring to his father Charles Edward Ross as "Daddy".

James McGregor

25/4/2024 10:59:42 pm

I just cannot see the point of this obsession about Charles, James, Edward, Jimmy or any other frigging nicknames? Can anyone else?

Mervyn Hagger

26/4/2024 09:42:20 pm

James, if you don't understand the big lie that has been built since 1990 by Ian Ross and the BBC, then you will probably never be interested in the authentic story of 'Radio Caroline'.

Caroline Brooks and Paul Shaw

27/4/2024 10:16:41 pm

Maybe they should get married, except that Paul Shaw is Ian Ross who is already married and Caroline Brooks is Emma Baskir who is also married. But what a pair they would make. Paul Shaw is a fictious character in a book, and Caroline Brooks is a fictitious character in a manuscript. The only problem would be if their two stories were combined into one story, no one would ever know the authentic story of Radio Caroline. Oh I forgot Ray Clark. He is claiming that the story that Ian Ross told him is true, so maybe he should interview Emma Baskir and then if he believes her story, he can run to the BBC and get them to make another TV show - like the one they screened in 1990 - because that was fiction.

Mervyn Hagger

28/4/2024 07:54:06 am

Because anoraks are so intent on believing the lie about Paul Shaw being Ian Ross, and Liam O'Mahoney being Ronan O'Rahilly, we should take a second look at Ray Clark's first fake telegram to see what it actually says, and not what anoraks and Ray Clark want us to believe that it says.

Ready?

Okay.

Ian Cowper Ross lived at Hindhead and that is where his father Charles and his mother Phyllis also lived. Ian was tied to Hindhead due to the court order resulting from his reckless car crash.

Ian Cowper Ross, who, although barely out of his teens when he had that car crash, ended up in hospital and then in court at Derby (!).

He was Mr Ross.

Ian Cowper Ross was not Miss Ross, or Ms. Ross and he was not a tree because this was in the age before the nonsense of Woke and gender reassignment.

So, Ray Clark created a fake telegram addressed to "Mr Ross at Reynardswood" in Hindhead.

Reynardswood was the identity of the legal residence of Ian Cowper Ross.

Mr. Ross.

According to the actual wording of the fake Ray Clark telegram, Ronan could not have "done it" without "Mr Ross".

Actually, it should read that Ian Cowper Ross could not have reinforced his silly story about Paul Shaw without help from Ray Clark.

This raises the question about whether Ray Clark who has been a BBC employee, was in fact a mere pawn in the hands of someone else who got him the low-level job at the BBC?

Why?

Well, the same question should be asked of the two women (Tory and Labour) who got Malcolm Smith his tin-pot licence. Those two women were MPs and one of them had strong showbiz BBC ties playing roles depicting the Crown.

So, Ray Clark created a fake telegram addressed to Mr Ross, and the silly, stupid, brainwashed and will-believe-anything anoraks all fell for yet another hoax.

Meanwhile anoraks, tell me - who was Kitty Black's husband, and why is that so important to know regarding the authentic story about Radio Caroline in 1964?

To AGB from Mervyn Hagger

30/4/2024 12:43:25 pm

You seem to be posting stuff about an obscure ITV soap that was taken off the air years ago (and now being used as 'filler' material in daytime, that is about a made-up problem on a pirate radio ship in the 60s.

So how is it that you have no time to answer a BIG and very REAL anorak question that Fred Bramley keeps on with his lie that I base everything on Ian Ross' novel, when in fact I am asking where the 'Jimmy' lie came from if it was not from Ian Ross' novel.

Ian Ross wrote about a Jim Shaw - not a 'Jimmy Ross'. So where did the name and the imaginary ride to Hindhead come from, if not from anoraks who expanded on Ian Ross' novel?

Come on AGB, you have time for an ages old soap on ITV which is total fiction, so how about telling me and Fred Bramley where you and all your anorak pals got 'Jimmy Ross' from?

Even the 1965 Daily Telegraph item is AFTER the fact when Pye pulled out and the Caroline Kennedy lie began. But the Telegraph says nothing about a car ride to Hindhead and NOWHERE does it say that Ronan O'Rahilly ever made such a trip.

Come on AGB, you set yourself up to be Anorak-in-Chief so tell us the answers to these REAL questions because no one cares in 2024 about an ages old soap that no one watched when it was first televised.

AGB - FRED BRAMLEY answer my question: Mervyn Hagger

30/4/2024 08:42:23 pm

You two are spending time on discussing a dud old ITV show about an event that never happened.

Now answer my question about the origin of the 'Jimmy Ross' ride to Hindhead with Ronan O'Rahilly.

It never happened because 'Jimmy Ross' never existed.

To Mervyn Hagger from your TV correspondent

30/4/2024 09:46:17 pm

'no one watched when it was first televised.'

Check your facts, Mr Hagger, it ran for 8.5 years before axing. It achieved good ratings initially.

You need to do more research.

Huh-hemmmmmmmm!

1/5/2024 11:49:47 am

People also ask

Why did The Royal end so abruptly?

The series was axed in March 2008 after poor ratings, on an average of 1.175 million viewers.

Mr LATTERLY

1/5/2024 05:52:03 pm

What a useless TV correspondent you are the rating were horrible and so the fiction TV show was scrubbed and you seem to be drowning in excuses not to answer the question about 'Jimmy'.

Why don't you stay in the real world and answer the real question about 'Jimmu' who never was?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Trevor King

1/5/2024 07:59:05 am

I wouldn’t put too much faith in Agb to do anything h apart from posting useless links.

Let’s play pretend for a moment. Let’s pretend you had never read Ian Ross’ novel that has become your obsession. Now, let’s pretend it’s December 1965 and you as an anorak, are reading the Telegraph.

You see an article about Radio Caroline which includes the name Jimmy Ross. Because you have never read Ian Ross’ novel (as it doesn’t exist) you have no reason to believe that this Jimmy Ross was “the Jimmy that never was”.

So to 1990 and Ian Ross writes a novel based VERY loosely on Radio Caroline and from that you suddenly believe that Jimmy Ross never existed. It’s a novel, yet from that novel you and only you have assumed that the Telegrsph article, which is not a novel contains erroneous detail.

It’s a very loose assumption is it not.

Stop Pretending - Face the Facts says Mervyn Hagger

1/5/2024 12:09:36 pm

Trevor King (an alias according to Mike), stop pretending, that is your BIG problem.

So, you now admit that ONE obscure mention in conjunction with another person with NO explanation, is all you need?

Ian Ross NEVER wrote about a 'Jimmy Ross'.

Ian Ross wrote about a young man named Paul Shaw with a dad named Jim.

Another character (NOT) Ronan O'Rahilly, called Jim Shaw, Jimmy in a 1990 novel.

That is 1990, not 1965.

It took that long to invent the lie now promoted by Ray Clark.

Ian Ross never wrote about a 'Jimmy Ross' in the anorak context - in fact, no one ever wrote about a 'Jimmy Ross' in the anorak context - until Ray Clark came along.

Now, instead of misquoting The Daily Telegraph I challenge YOU to post what it actually says and then explain to everyone who are who are named in the news clipping.

You do have the clipping, don't you?

Or are you misquoting what someone else says about that clipping?

Answer this:

If Project Atlanta Limited raised the money for Radio Atlanta, what is the name of the company that raised the money for Radio Caroline?

It doesn't exist.

Why?

Because the money for both Atlanta and Caroline came from Project Atlanta Ltd.

The UK Board of Trade made a thorough investigation during 1965, and they could not find any company that specifically raised money just for Radio Caroline.

So just face the facts:

You have been LIED to over and over and over and over again - just so that a few people could cover their tracks, and in recent times, so that Malcolm Smith could play you lot like suckers in order to drain your bank accounts.

Trevor King

1/5/2024 09:32:12 pm

One “obscure” mention in a national daily!😃

BTW I have the article, so there is no ambiguity about the name mentioned. The Jimmy who never was, according to you is clearly documented. So, explain why this was a mistake or whatever.

I guess you can’t!

Let's try again, Mr Hagger

1/5/2024 07:20:45 pm

As Trevor says, let's forget the Ian Ross novel, because it is a novel.

Now, this is oft repeated:

"Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl “Jimmy” Ross of Ross Foods, Jocelyn Stevens of Queen Magazine, "

Now read this"

https://www.grimbarians.com/grimbarians-through-time/j-carl-ross

J Carl Ross is John Carl Ross, also known as Jimmy as many called John are. It's a common nickname.

So, Mr Hagger, why do you deny the existence of Jimmy Ross? He clearly did exist.

Now let's turn it around and ask you a further question.

What evidence do you have that Jimmy Ross is not the aforementioned J Carl Ross?

Mervyn Hagger

1/5/2024 08:15:37 pm

Well now, AGB and Fred Bramley have decided to respond on the GS Board with more drivel about a TV show, then they make it clear that they understand the issue is 'Jimmy' by trying to divert attention by ridicule.

What this reveals is that this one basic question is the stone, that when removed, will pull down BOTH the Garry Stevens Board and the Dave Martin Board = along with all of the anoraks who populate those two sites - some supporting Malcolm Smith and others attacking him, but all united on one crucial foundational point of falsehood:

'Jimmy Ross' never existed and Ronan O'Rahilly was a fraud propped up by a 1990 lie expanded by Ian Cowper Ross and then Ray Clark.

In 1965, the UK Board of Trade could not find the source of funding for Radio Caroline. So, the anoraks - including and especially Ray Clark, will not find it, because BOTH Radio Atlanta and Radio Caroline were funded by Project Atlanta Limited.

The sheer stupidity of people like Ray Clark is all that there is propping up the big LIE about Ronan O'Rahilly.

Propping up Ray Clark is the big lie spun by Ian Cowper Ross.

This level of stupidity is quite amazing.

Is there any point in time where you lot will say that you were wrong, you were conned, or is it a case that you have created a religious cult, and by faith you keep posting silly nostalgic stories about a past that never happened?

You just have to open your eyes and open your ears and see reality.

You are promoting a past that today's kids have NO interest in, but the methods used to con generation after generation is always the same and there seems to be no limit to the number of young people who will lay down their lives to defend their leaders' big lies.

What a sad commentary you anoraks are writing for your own obituaries..

Again, the question is where did the 1964 Radio Caroline money come from? It was not from 'Jimmy' because he never existed.

I DARE YOU TO ANSWER THAT ONE BASIC QUESTION.

Rick o'shea

1/5/2024 11:36:27 pm

Posted by Scottg on May 1, 2024, 6:40 pm, in reply to "Re: The Royal itv3 tomorrow "
It was well known that certain newspaper articles in the mid 1960s at times gave the correct surname, but modified the forename. So instead of rabbiting on about the Daily Telegraph article in December 1965, that wrote Jimmy Ross, let Mervyn Hagger explain why another article in a different paper, uses the same style of writing using (Geoffrey) Ainley and (James) Ross, when other names are correct. The excuses of non publishing a book and insulting many people is now unacceptable. Time to PUT UP or SHUT UP. Scottg.

Mervyn Hagger waiting for the answer to that one basic question

2/5/2024 08:21:10 am

First of all, why don't you anoraks use real names and identify yourselves?

I know that Ray Clark does and he is 100% off in cloud-cuckoo-land. Is that the reason why you are afraid, scared of saying who you are?

Now regarding the link you post to a fish guy named Carl. Nowhere that I can see is any connection made to financing Radio Caroline in 1964, and even Ray Clark agrees that this is not a true connection.

Then you say = "let's forget the Ian Ross novel, because it is a novel."

Do that and you have nothing left to hang your 'Jimmy' hat on.

But you then go where even Ray Clark refuses to go = "Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl “Jimmy” Ross of Ross Foods, Jocelyn Stevens of Queen Magazine, "

That looks as if it was lifted from Wikipedia which is 100% wrong and furthermore it is NOT the quotation I dared you to reproduce from The Daily Telegraph which they printed in 1965 .... and that is the year in which the Caroline Kennedy lie began.

But you (whoever the little, snivelling coward that you are), can only come up with a challenge for me to prove the existence of your nonsense which most of the anoraks don't believe.

So, back to my challenge question. Find the Telegraph article with the date and quote it exactly and then we will go fom there.

As for the true story, the authentic story, I have a library of documentation to show where the money came from and who it came from and why it came about and it had NOTHING to do with Ronan O'Rahilly was but a low-level Irish employee of Peter Rachman and the Kray Twins.

Mervyn Hagger to Fred Bramley

2/5/2024 08:49:13 am

"Posted by Fred Bramley on May 2, 2024, 6:24 am, in reply to "Re: The Royal itv3 tomorrow "- Jimmy Ross is from Mervyn Hagger`s own hand 2018 acrobat PDF manuscript, being the father of author Ian Cowper-Ross."

Back in 2014 I read the book 'Radio Man' which contradicted everything I then knew about the financing of 'Radio Caroline' in 1964 - see http://foundthreads.com/08-A.html - that article was published in 2009!

So I joined forces with Chris Edwards of OEM and we paid for an investigation and found the source of the statement in 'Radio Man'.

Then I paid attention to both the 1990 BBC-TV show and its source the novel by Ian Cowper Ross. The pieces did not fit, so I commenced an investigation into Ian Ross by BUYING a copy of his wedding certificate after employing a professionalism investigator.

It is because of ME that you know know that Ian Ross is Ian COWPER Ross, that his dad is CHARLES EDWARD Ross and that he has a half-brother whose life activities he took (stole) and claimed for himself.

It is because of me that we know that Ian Ross was a kid who crashed a motorbike and then a Jensen car, landed in hospital and then in court where he was fined and so his dad got him a low-level job with Jocelyn Stevens.

Then I investigate Ian Ross' father and he was a director of a Scottish firm of dry cleaners who began franchising. He also became a director of Jansen, the failed car company, and that is how Ian got hold of one and rammed headlong into a bus

I also know all about Norcros, John Sheffield and Jocelyn Stevens, and that is NOT where the Radio Caroline money came from.

It came from Project Atlanta Limited who DID HAVE A 'JIMM'Y' (JAMES) ON ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS and he linked to the business plan of Charles Orr Stanley who put the first UK local radio station on the air in 1960, and yes it was transmitting and yes it was based in England.

But the story really begins in 1959 out of Yorkshire and not even Paul Rusling (who knows the truth - because he visited me twice and stole research), not even he will dare to admit what happened in Yorkshire because the fake story of Ronan O'Rahilly won't fit.

Therefore quit your silly rants in support of Ray Clark's and Malcolm Smith lies and admit that Ronan O'Rahilly was a low-level crook and that 'Jimmy Ross' was something YOU made up because Ian Ross called this phantom 'Jim Shaw' - not 'Jimmy Ross'.

Fred, you can't do that, can you? You will be back with another lie claiming that I believe in Ian Ross' 1990 novel.

What a sad person you are.

Sunday Telegraph 12th December 1965

2/5/2024 03:40:04 pm

Caroline in rough seas by Iain Sproat (later Tory MP)

Extract

The company behind O’Rahilly in this venture was Planet Productions, which, the public were told, was controlled by four people. Their names were not revealed, but they were in fact Mr John Sheffield (chairman of the Norcross group of companies), Mr Jimmy Ross, Mr O’Rahilly and Mr Jocelyn Stevens.

That was 1965, not 1990.

Find the full article yourself.

Mervyn Hagger

3/5/2024 01:44:30 pm

I have the ORIGINAL clipping but what you don't seem to understand is that it is that this clipping is making a FALSE claim!

Let's start with your retype.

You wrote the name 'Norcross' - but there was no such company. I will leave you to figure out why.

You also wrote that:

"The company behind O’Rahilly in this venture was Planet Productions, which, the public were told, was controlled by four people."

Now who do you suppose "told the public" (or this daft reporter) that?

He claimed that: "Their names were not revealed, but they were in fact Mr John Sheffield (chairman of the Norcross group of companies), Mr Jimmy Ross, Mr O’Rahilly and Mr Jocelyn Stevens."

Now that is a contradiction.

"Their names were not revealed but they were in fact ...."

Make your mind up. Either they were not revealed, or they were.

There is no "they were in fact".

That is stupid reporting of nonsense.

Anyway, s'funny that Planet Productions did not come into existence in Ireland until AFTER the Fredericia had been purchased and equipped with radio transmitting equipment.

Oops!

Who paid for that?

"Mr John Sheffield (chairman of the Norcross group of companies)" with or without the correct spelling, was NOT on the Board at any time. I have the company documents - from Ireland - because that company was NEVER registered in the UK.

In 1965 the UK Board of Trade tried to find the owners of Radio Caroline and failed to do so.

Now as far as "Mr Jimmy Ross" is concerned, well he was NOT on the Board of Planet Productions, either.

"In fact" your news item is a 1965 orphan - it stands alone.

Ronan O'Rahilly was on the original Board and "Mr Jocelyn Stevens" joined it later - after Radio Caroline was on the air.

So your future MP is a complete dud, like most MPs who don't know what they are talking about, or in this instance, writing about.

In other words you don't know what you are prattling on about.

You (unnamed and scared as usual) are just plain prattling.

Trevor King

3/5/2024 11:29:06 am

A serious question.

I have noticed that for the first days of programming on Radio Caroline the station name doesn’t seem to be mentioned on those programmes recorded in Dean Street. Yes, Simon Dee does interrupt with station ID and timecheck live from the studio on the Fredericia.

Why no station name on the first taped programmes?

Mervyn Hagger making it easy for Fred Bramley (if that is his real name?!)

3/5/2024 04:22:45 pm

Fred Bramley is the one who for years now, has claimed that I tried to decipher what Ian Ross had written, and as far as that goes, he is correct.

But then I read 'Radio Man' about Charles Orr Stanley, it led me to team up with Chris Edwards. We went in a search for the truth behind one paragraph on one page in that entire book. It claimed that Charles Orr Stanley and his son John were the brains and financial means of creating Radio Caroline, NOT Ronan O'Rahilly.

I split the costs of this research with Chris Edwards, and while Chris did the leg work to a remote ex-RAF base near Reading, I began a series of contacts with the man who paid for 'Radio Man' to be written. He did not want us to find the original text, but after narrowing it down to source material, Chris eventually found the 'hidden' truth.

But that only created a bigger problem. Because if Charles Orr Stanley was the brains and source of locating the funding for Radio Caroline, then where did Ronan O'Rahilly fit in? What about Allan Crawford and Jocelyn Stevens, and for that matter, what of the 1990 claims in a novel and then on BBC-TV that were made by Ian Ross?

It took YEARS more and a LOT of time and research MONEY to find the answers, but our 'Trio' eventually found them!

But Fred Bramley and his idiot anoraks, along with the THIEF Paul Rusling, the con man Ray Clark, and his money-grubbing buddy Malcolm Smith, would not give in. Ronan O'Rahilly was GOD and he had to remain GOD - except that Ronan O'Rahilly was a low-level member of the Kray organization affiliates!

So here is PROOF of Fred Bramley's 2015 claims (while ignoring the book 'Radio Man' and the painstaking research by Chris Edwards, that I was trying to decipher in Ian Ross' book. That research is preserved for all to read on the Wayback Machine. (I thought I had lost it, but I found it two days ago). It explains what I was doing in 2015 - but NOT what followed with the BIG help of Chris Edwards.

Here is the link back to 2015 which eventually takes you to a review of Ian Ross' novel ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150416225259/http://yesterair.org/briefing.html

Unlike the anoraks, we documented our search for the true story and admit errors when we have run into intentional obfuscation.

However, it is now 2024 and we now have 99% of the authentic story about Radio Caroline and it is our intention to publish it and demolish the anorak nonsense. But if they are a real religious cult they will never, ever admit that they have been misled and that Ronan O'Rahilly was NOT the creator of Radio Caroline.

It you go back even before 2015 on the Wayback Machine, you find the original title of our planned book - which was long before reading either Ian Ross' novel or the IEE book 'Radio Man'.

My guess is that anoraks will either ignore all this, or they will find misspelling, or even resort to more childish name calling, and never, ever admit that we were right, and they were wrong.

Over to you "Fred Bramley".

What now?

Pot and kettle

4/5/2024 08:52:20 am

"they will find misspelling"

"You wrote the name 'Norcross' - but there was no such company. I will leave you to figure out why."

Chris Edwards

4/5/2024 12:22:45 pm

As I get mentioned here a few times, will clarify a few things.
The Radio Man book states that Charles and his son John would provide all the equipment for Radio Caroline and set a fictitious company , and that everything Pye made for Caroline would be stramped with the badge of the fictitious company.
It doesn’t mention Ronan O’Rahilly or anyone else, so is not proof that they were not involved, it just simply doesn’t mention them.
I was curious to find out more about the Stanleys and Pye, and with help from Mervyn visited the Pye archives (at my own expense incidentally) twice. On the second visit found a document written by Alan Bednall, who’d been commissioned by the Stanleys to design the fake badges and paperwork.
Alan Bednall had passed away, Charles grandson Nicholas claimed to interviewed those involved for the bogus company – but no trace of these were found. Much of the Pye archive had been dumped when Philips took over the company. The trial went cold from there, and nothing further of note was discovered.
We do seem to be getting back to more speculation, rather than solid fact, which is the main reason I left Mervyn’s “investigation”.

Hi Chris from Mervyn

4/5/2024 08:39:23 pm

I respect Chris and that is why I do not label him the way I label the anoraks as religious cult members, but with all that said, I must CORRECT what Chris has stated because it is not true - at all!

First on cost.

We (Chris and Mervyn's associates), SPLIT the costs after discussion as to who would pay for what. Chris paid for his part, Mervyn paid for his part.

But what Chris uncovered is NOT true at all!

There was NO fictitious company - even though the single paragraph on the single page of 'Radio Man' said that there was. THAT was part of the mystery.

It was MERVYN who paid for the many calls and conversations with both the museum at Bradford, AND the grandson of Charles Orr Stanley who tried to throw Mervyn off the scent.

While it was CHRIS who found the truth in the fact that it was the grandson who personally interviewed Alan Bednall in writing .... it was MERVYN who then entered into a lot of correspondence with the deceased Alan Bednall's daughter.

From THOSE conversations it was learned that the grandson invested 100,000 Pounds to produce the IEE 'Radio Man' book and he employed a journalist to write it, but he gave the journalist FALSE information.

Now the story really gets complicated and THAT is where Chris dropped out of the picture, but Chris used PART of my related investigation into the brothers who partly ran 'The Scene Club'.

Where the speculation ended is when MERVYN continued to spend a LOT of money investigating EVERYONE and buying up a library of back issues of "Queen" magazine and building a small LIBRARY of books to track down this story. THAT COST A LOT MORE MONEY and time!

That is when MERVYN discovered the truth about the Isle of Man, the truth about 'Radio Cambridge' and the truth about 'Radio Yorkshire' and the truth about a recording studio in Hampstead that MERVYN once attended where Ross Radio were make programs for '208' and which Simon Dee attended .... AND THEN ....

MERVYN figured that Stanley dropped out after the October 15, 1964 UK General Election and then what then happened became the jaw dropper.

MERVYN ran into another series of events involving the Kennedy Brothers and Mervyn went on to ask about a particular recording involving Radio Caroline.

MERVYN won't reveal here and now who helped him, but it is someone well known to anoraks. That person did help by supplied a recording that no one had knowledge of, or even what it meant.

THEN this same person supplied Mervyn with a document that led from Alan Bednall to Allan Crawford, Crawford's venture before Radio Atlanta. It did not involve Kitty Black - who MERVYN then discovered has a hidden past - including a hidden husband who was in the shadows playing a MAJOR part in this story.

Simply put Chris, you dropped too soon out by reaching a false conclusion.

Having myself gone through a personal tragedy, I can understand and I do have sympathy for your own personal circumstances at that time.

However, with all that said and done, your part was not in vain, because it turned out to be the key to the door which you walked away from.

But thank you for your help.

However, your interpretation of what happened is, I am sorry to say 100% untrue.

I am afraid that you will have to wait for publication of the book in the name of Genie (not her daughter), which is a work very much in progress - because very recent news events have made it critical to release a book as fast as possible.

Mike is being kept informed.

Let's take a step back for a minute

4/5/2024 06:20:09 pm

I think that much of the flak which Mervyn Hagger receives is not about the facts, some of which will never be known, but rather because of his disrespect and antagonistic approach, which gets people's backs up. Unfortunately he attacks and insults all and sundry and has a history of doing so, alienating collaborators along the way and making others reluctant to help him despite his pleas, or even to identify themselves for fear of often unjustified reprisals.

He, of course will regard this as a personal attack which is not intended, merely an observation. A shame really, but there we are.

In reply to let's step back

4/5/2024 07:54:36 pm

The answer is that anoraks are idiots because they are true believers. Mervyn does not need your help because scope and this story is so much bigger than the idiots think that it is. They will be surprised at the direction this story is going to take due to recent developments. Anoraks are idiots and thieves and con men because they don't have a clue, and they are SCARED to death of being personally exposed as one of the idiots, so they can't use their real names.

Dear Pot and Kettle from the Pans

4/5/2024 06:22:58 pm

You fell for it.

Addendum to Chris' Comments by Mervyn

4/5/2024 08:53:25 pm

As I previously posted, the mistakes our team have made are documented on the Wayback Machine, but they began in 2014 and this is 2024.

Ten years have elapsed.

That is how long it has taken to find the authentic story.

It has cost a LOT of money as well as time during which I personally have endured loads of abuse, and you think that I am not allowed to fire back at the idiotic fools who worship the memory of Ronan O'Rahilly for something he never did while calling me names?

Think again!

Mervyn (and my newsbeat goes on) Hagger

5/5/2024 09:49:07 am

Sunday, 9:38 AM - May 5, 2024 - Just this minute discovered that on Saturday, November 20, 1965 - the year before he married into British aristocracy in 1966, Ian Cowper Ross was describing himself as a "director of Radio Caroline" when he was in court for YET ANOTHER motoring offence. (He began with crashing a motorbike into shop window, then a Jensen car head-on into a bus so that he almost lost his foot and gained the nickname 'Flipper' when he was 18.)

So here is Ross - 'MISTER ROSS TO YOU" - according to idiot Ray Clark, who is calling himself a "director of Radio Caroline" in a court of law no less! The problem is that there was NO such company to be a director of!

Not only that but he was now into fashion boutiques and a year later he was showing clothes at the Cavern in Liverpool - (Take note of that Fred Bramley.)

But here is the clincher about Ray Clark and his "Mr Ross" fake telegram - the "Mr Ross" being referred to is IAN COWPER ROSS the kid who married into British aristocacy and got his mother-in-law to pay and launch his novel "Rocking the Boat"Ian Cowper Ross' dry-cleaning father ge

Mervyn Hagger

5/5/2024 09:58:21 am

Oops! - What I was about to write was that NOWHERE does any report show that Ian Cowper Ross' dry-cleaning father got involved with Radio Caroline.

It was his son who crashed vehicles, ended up in hospital and then in court, who called himself a 'Director of Radio Caroline'.

But that was impossible because there wasn't any company called 'Radio Caroline' for him to be a director of!

He was a boy employee of Jocelyn Stevens to pay for his court cost fines, and then he got into boutiques, married into aristocracy and left England for New York and then California for a while - where he also became an English BUTLER - ACCORDING TO HIS OWN SECOND BOOK IN WHICH HE STILL CALLED HIS CHARACTOR PAUL SHAW.

Anoraks, your Ronan coffin is getting nailed shut full of sh-t and if you don't like me saying this, then stop lying!

More "Jimmy" debunking from Mervyn

5/5/2024 10:20:28 am

I just this minute found MORE documented proof in contemporary newspapers!

There is NO doubt about it anoraks, it was IAN COWPER ROSS who said that HE was one of 3 people who founded Radio Caroline (which was a lie, but I have now found another printed newspaper claim to that effect dated the same year as the daft "Jimmy Ross" item in the Daily Telegraph.

The evidence is in: "Mr Ross" is none other that Ian Cowper Ross who was lying - and since Ronan supposedly sent that fake telegram - Ronan was lying as well.

As for Ray Clark, well he is just a basket-casefull of vanity and misinformation.

A different theory

5/5/2024 11:09:31 pm

1. Ray Clark has no reason to fake the telegram as has been suggested and I am pretty sure in my own mind that he would not do so.

2. Those who have seen the telegram believe it to be genuine

3. It has been established that the design of the telegram is contemporary with the same layout and graphics as others of the time which are known to be genuine.

4. It is and has been, quite common for individuals to refer to themselves as 'director' when their business is not necessarily an incorporated company registered at Companies House, but a partnership or some other informal entity.

In that scenario, the telegram, it's contents and the sender and addressee makes perfect sense. To me, this is more plausible than Mervyn's 'fake' theory.

No theories only facts

6/5/2024 09:46:30 pm

1. Ray Clark has every reason to lie and either he or his gutless and nameless trolls who can't stand criticism of his book by someone who has bought all three editions are using a branch of Amazon to censor and that show weakness indeed since anoraks have called me every name you can think of. Hypocrites.

2. George Saunders saw the telegram and said it was a fake.

3. The design has not been established and that is part of the problem.

4. This statement is ridiculous. There was only one company and that was Project Atlanta Limited. Ian Cowper Ross gave his address as Reynardswood and the so-called 'telegram' refers to 'Mr Ross' - not even 'Jim' or 'Jimmy'.

But the clincher is in the HUGE AND I DO MEAN HUGE amount of documentation that proves the Pye story and if you read the early news stories - before Ronan O'Rahilly popped up, Pye were doing their best to tell news people they were not involved and that is why Ronan O'Rahilly was brought and he was NOT on the founding registration of ANY company related to Radio Caroline.

The trouble for anoraks is that they have created a story via Ray Clark that is so stupid that it defies sanity. Anoraks you have created a religious cult and Ronan O'Rahilly is your Patron Saint.

In the real world (which isn't flat), ten years of research prove that anoraks are on a level with any of the far-out religious belief systems that you can think of.

Your own (hypocritical) come-back is to throw MORE insults my way.

For heaven's sake!

7/5/2024 06:02:12 pm

In the previous thread it has been proven, with links, that the design of the telegram was comptemporaneous. Links to other examples were provided, including one to an example in the V & A.

Furthermore, those who have actually seen the telegrams, including Chris Edwards confirms their authenticity. Show me where, in print, George Saunders states that it is fake.

When is a book review not a book review?

6/5/2024 07:43:51 am

Amazon appear to have taken down Mervyn Hagger's 'review' for a THIRD time. He suspects a conspiracy by Ray Clark and/or his friends 🤣 Perhaps it's more to do with yet another breach of their community guidelines:

"t’s OK to question others' beliefs and expertise, but be respectful. We don’t allow:

Profanity, obscenities, name-calling.
Harassment, threats.
Attacks on people you disagree with.
Libel, defamation, or inflammatory content.
Drowning out others’ opinions. Don’t post from multiple ac

Mervyn on Monday

6/5/2024 08:58:30 am

I have just recovered files that need filing and which show PYE denying that they were involved which was the reason for placing Ronan O'Rahilly on the stage of make believe.

This was BEFORE Ronan O'Rahilly was thrust on to the board of Planet Productions, and long before the nonsense about "Mr Ross" began.

It was Ian Cowper Ross who was called himself "Jimmy" and it was Ian Cowper Ross who was constantly in court over driving offences who described himself as "one of the 3 original directors of Radio Caroline".

That was another Ian Cowper Ross lie.

The true sequence of events and the proof has always been there - but it has been drowned out by the likes of Paul Rusling and now Ray Clark.

In other words, Ronan O'Rahilly was added to Planet Productions Limited and that Dublin company was formed LONG AFTER the purchase of the Fredericia.

The fact that anoraks can't accept this is the same reason other religious cultists can't accept the fact that their messiahs are created out of rubbish stories.

Well, the hard facts of proof are now emerging to be placed in order for the world to see, and for Paul Rusling and Ray Clark to deny .... how can they accept the truth when their lives are built upon a foundation of LIES?

Monday update from Genie

6/5/2024 07:21:09 pm

Genie just told me about having dinner with an FCC man who told her and her husband who he attended university with, all about Weiner, his half million watt SW station and a nutcase who believes that the world is flat.

Of course Weiner got involved with the whole anorak and 'Sealand' nonsense, which resulted in our 2010 academic article. See: http://foundthreads.com/14.html

I guess flat earth religion, Ray Clark, Paul Rusling and Malcolm Smith all fit together. Maybe the anoraks can get a group discount to join 'Worlds' Last Chance' as the religion is called, and then they can sell short wave radio sets to save world and turn Ronan O'Rahilly into the Flat Earth Messiah.

These religious freaks are just plain nuts.

James McGregor

6/5/2024 11:16:28 pm

In the fast moving and flat earth trembling world of name dropping it's always "I had dinner with / someone told me they had dinner with / I imagine if I say this I sound connected with and glamorous with my dining anecdotal status

I'm not jealous like, my microwave is pinging with Ross Fish for one to share, but is this not the equivalent of I heard this or I read that? Like Peter M said about some gas bag saying "word on the street is" Peter sensibly replied what is word on the street? gossip, no idea, superstition, a hunch after a liquid lunch?

Where is the all proclaimed and as yet not delivered academic research. It seems to me to be going cold turkey in a wattle wobble mud bath. Real Caroline people like Peter don't dine out at this soup kitchen for the lost causes

I do though, because I am a down and out

James McGregor = can you read?

7/5/2024 12:34:14 pm

"Where is the all proclaimed and as yet not delivered academic research?"

It's been online for YEARS!

it's free to read!

Can you read?

Is that why you ask stupid questions?

http://foundthreads.com/

Another series have also been published with the 8th about to be published.

Wake up James and read what is already available.

Chris Edwards' Recall by Mervyn Hagger

7/5/2024 08:33:32 am

There are 2 key people who have aided our Trio. One I won't name right now, but if I did, you would all know who that person is.

That person supplied us with a recording which had been left unplayed for years, until we began asking whether it existed.

When it was played, decades later, it turned out to be a key piece of evidence.

Another item was a scrap of paper written on two sides, allegedly found by Ray Clark no less, but which Ray Clark could not understand.

We knew what it was because it related to other pieces of evidence. But at this moment in time I will not name the source of this vital information who gave us a copy of Ray Clark's alleged discovery - but if I did - you would immediately know who I am referring to. We thank him profusely for his honesty and for his help.

But then there is the hard work and dedicated work that Chris Edwards put into this investigation.

Chris Edwards began the events that led us to writing a new series of articles (which are still being published, 8 so far), for a journal representing a public institution. This is in addition to our academic series that began in 2000, which have been published by various university journals.

What Chris Edwards discovered is NOT what Chris Edwards has reported here.

Just the opposite!

Chris Edwards' discovery revealed that a conspiracy continues to this day to conceal the facts regarding the involvement of PYE and both its Chairman and his son in the creation of not only Radio Caroline, but other stations as well.

What Chris Edwards set out to do as part of a PAID undertaking by him and by us (he paid for his expenses, and we paid for our own), is to find the original source material for a statement that appeared in one paragraph on one page of a VERY respectable book (published in the name of the IEE).

That statement claimed what Chris Edwards reported here, on Mike's Board.

But what Chris Edwards found was the ORIGINAL document that led to the PARTLY FALSE statement in the book, and it CONTRADICTED the false statement by explaining what really happened.

That statement led to proof that Ronan O'Rahilly was a fraudster and that Charles Orr Stanley of PYE was the 'father' of Radio Caroline.

Not only that, but the person who got the interview with Alan Bednall (see Chris' statement above), and that person is the grandson of Charles Orr Stanley, the man behind the IEE book.

Stanley's grandson told me personally that he did not remember who got that interview with Alan Bednall. He LIED. He got that interview and that is what Chris Edwards uncovered and then sent to me!

From Chris Edwards' research and discovery I wrote (under my own name) an account of this entire affair and it was published (now years ago), by a very respectable journal which has continued to publish in sequence, our continuing investigation.

So, let's set that record very straight:

Chris Edwards BEGAN our current investigation which led to our discovery that Ronan O'Rahilly is a FRAUD.

That is how and why we parted ways with all of the anoraks who hate us for revealing something that Chris Edwards and another (so-far unnamed) person discovered in uncovering the authentic story of Radio Caroline from 1964-1968.

Without THEIR help, beginning with Chris Edwards, NONE of our findings about the true origins of Radio Caroline would have been possible.

What anoraks should be asking is why is Chris Edwards not explaining to anoraks the key part he played at the very beginning of our investigation in 2014-2015?

Why is Chris Edwards only repeating the enigma of what he set out to find, and not what he uncovered?

It was not a quick discovery either.

Many people tried to stop us from finding it, but thanks to Chris Edwards he uncovered the truth and what Chris Edwards found is the foundation of everything that we know and everything that has so infuriated the anoraks.

The first person to begin the deception KNOWINGLY is Paul Rusling. He visited us twice and saw our library and took away information which he then twisted to fit his totally FALSE storyline in his 'Radio Caroline Bible'.

Ask Paul Rusling why he did that and why Hans Knot originally wrote that I had a hand in Paul Rusling's book? I made Paul Rusling retract that statement which even Garry Stevens repeated on his notorious Board which has led to a barrage of people calling me all manner of nasty names - just for telling the truth and calling them LIARS - which is what they are.

If anoraks simply said "oops!" - "we fell for the lies told by Ian Ross and Ronan O'Rahilly", there would be no problem. But that is not what has happened.

Garry Stevens got the name-calling started, and then Paul Rusling produced his deceitful "bible", but then Chris Edwards kept his mouth shut.

Until now.

Then, on Mike's Board, Chris Edwards has not told you what he discovered and why his discovery was a game-changer, Chris Edwards merely told you about the mystery we both set out to solve.

I found the original q

Source, please

7/5/2024 03:52:17 pm

"a very respectable journal"

What was it called? Where can I find it? I wonder if it is 'Transmitting', the magazine of the Museum of Communication, but just a guess.

Mervyn Hagger

7/5/2024 12:37:37 pm

I found the original question and Chris Edwards discovered the original answer.

Charles Orr Stanley created Radio Caroline.

James McGregor

8/5/2024 12:22:45 am

Mervyn Hagger7/5/2024 12:37:37 pm
I found the original question and Chris Edwards discovered the original answer.

Charles Orr Stanley created Radio Caroline.

Well that's fantastic - 30 years of research and a promised Hollywood franchise longer than Star Trek and it's all summed up in one line

Charles Orr Stanley created Radio Caroline

That's great, and I do take some sly satisfaction over my contribution what now seems like eons ago over how the REM island equipment was PYE and how strange transistor radios were made at the same time with Caroline and Atlanta on them. Of course this was obfuscated away into collector's corner

Peter Moore, as he says the cook in his own house, cooks up tasty ham, chicken, mushroom whatever in pastry and says ah beautiful, really, beautiful, this is what the ancients would have eaten in ancient times before they came down from the trees and over the seas and became UK DAB civilised

Planet productions of the ape anoraks now civilised say - yes we can now eat with knife fork and spoon - how wonderful is this blood, sweat and tears bloodline of evolution that we thank the first ship settlers for

Mervyn says it not beautiful - it's rotten

Mervyn says over the next generation - I shall write 3 books and a mini series showing you how rotten

A generation later Mervyn is still in the cheeky monkey business enclosure chomping away on his typewriter and sliding around on his disjointed banana skins the same old Mein Kampf my struggle. Its all the fault of Princess Margaret, hippies, Rachman landlords, the Krays, Mandy Rice, Kitty Black, anorak's, the Beatles, the Stones, anoraks, Vietnam, JFK, anoraks again, people anywhere anytime and especially an irishman in the right place at the right time? and Malcom Smith, an Englishman in the right place at the right time for radio enthusiasts (anoraks) to enjoy the heritage and the bloodline shrouded in piratical subterfuge and mystery - which you have destroyed in one line

Charles Orr Stanley created Radio Caroline.

Well done. Job done. Now go and convince the wider world because you are preaching to closed ear conservatives here

Best wishes

James

Chris Edwards

8/5/2024 12:18:17 pm

I didn't discover the answer that "Charles Stanley created Radio Caroline", merely that the Stanley's may have been involved with Radio Caroline. There was no definate proof, and it remains inconclusive.

Mervyn Hagger

8/5/2024 09:30:24 pm

That is NOT what you uncovered. The statement in the book - which you repeated earlier as fact, was that a fictitious company had been created - but what you uncovered proved that the original statement by Alan Bednall had been misquoted and obfuscated because in the book it did not connect the fictitious statement to Alan Bednall and Alan Bednell never used that word or even implied that the company that Charles Orr Stanley created was fake. Chris, you KNOW that there is absolutely NO truth in the 'Jimmy' nonsense and without the revelation that you discovered, there is NO evidence to show who or how Radio Caroline was financed. Why you want to cling on to Ronan O'Rahilly and his lies is something that takes a little bit of understanding. Chris, you know the truth because I have previously shared a LOT of evidence with you to PROVE that Charles Orr Stanley created Radio Caroline.

Just a suggestion from Mervyn

7/5/2024 08:01:55 pm

Mike, if the posts submitted do not include an authentic first and second name, like James McGregor and a few others, then the idea of a 'baiting board' seems to take over from a proper Conversation Central and therefore they should be rejected.

Chris Edwards is a real person who has engaged in serious conversation, but some of the initials and simply no names whatsoever, turn this Board into nothing more than a mouth for religious cultists who believe in a myth, and who never offer any proof for anything.

The fake telegram issue is a case in point. George Saunders saw the first telegram and pointed out several signs of 'fake'.

Someone else remarked that it would be strange for these items to be in the hands of a single person years later.

The fake telegram to 'Mr Ross' at Reynardswood refers to Ian Ross who was a reckless driver who ended up in hospital and then in court where he was fined. His dad made him get a job to pay for his fines. You can see the cowering Ian in the first World In Action video with Jocelyn Stevens in the middle and Ronan O'Rahilly on the other side of the room. Ian does not speak because he is not a part of the discussion, just a low-key employee.

But then there is the group of names in which Ray Clark turned Jose into Jocelyn when he does not seem to be aware that Ian Ross was briefly assigned by Jocelyn Stevens to work with a person named Jose.

Where is there any research shown by any of these anoraks into the source of money to buy and outfit the Fredericia?

On the other hand the people behind Project Atlanta Limited do represent money, and there is a link from them to CNBC and GBOK.

The idea that a young Irishman named Ronan O'Rahilly who arrived broke in London during 1961, who had to work for Peter Rachman until he died in December 1962, could then arrive in Allan Crawford's office in early 1963 and then, before December of that year, find the money to buy a ship, outfit it as a radio station and employ staff and a ship company, is just ridiculous.

It is even more ridiculous when one considers that all of Crawford's backers are known, and they are also the backers of Radio Caroline.

As you, Mike, have shown at the top of this thread, in 1961, the Irish, Blacks and dogs were not welcome in London rooming houses, and Ronan O'Rahilly had no money of his own. So he went to work in London's gangland.

There is no way to engage with people who refuse to identify themselves. Chris Edwards does, and so does James McGregor.

Then why not force the army of frightened bedroom writers who send out abuse under the cover of anonymity, to identify themselves, it they want to see their words on this forum?

Mervyn Hagger

8/5/2024 09:46:14 am

Maybe, just maybe the ultimate string-puller in the 'Hate Hagger Campaign' has tipped his hand a little too far and revealed himself.

This will mean nothing to the anorak cultists who can't see the wood for the trees, but maybe Chris Edwards should have a rethink about denying that he found the answer to solving the mystery of who began Radio Caroline in 1964 and why they started it, and then why they could not reveal their participation.

The primary creator of Radio Caroline was Charles Orr Stanley of the Pye Group of Companies.

But who was also there at the beginning, and who had a vested personal interest in remaking their own life, and who then used a fake story of Radio Caroline in order to do it?

That person is 'Mr Ross', better known as Ian Cowper Ross.

In 1963, Ian had a lot to conceal and so he swiped parts of the lives of other people and claimed them for himself in order to cover-up his own true identity which was a disaster.

Ian Cowper Ross has come out the winner and his claim to fame ultimately rests upon the totally fake story of a Radio Caroline that he invented.

Ronan O'Rahilly was a part beneficiary, but he was a total bum who missed the boat completely, while his enterprising father benefited considerably.

However, still alive and kicking and thriving as one of today's rich and influential (not sure of the 'powerful' bit), is Ian Cowper Ross.

More than anyone else involved, Ian has the most to fear from me, although at this stage of the 'game', no matter what I expose, Ian has pulled off one of the greatest personal con jobs of all time - thanks to the low-life anoraks who have unknowingly helped to provide him with the jet-set kind of a life that anoraks can only dream of.

Yes, Ian, the jigsaw is now in place.

The question that remains is how to put you in your place within the context of the authentic story of Radio Caroline, which would have been a lot easier to reveal if Chris Edwards had only told the anoraks about what he discovered and what his discovery does to Ray Clark's fake story written on behalf of Ian Cowper Ross!

Mervyn Hagger and Ian's fake telegram

8/5/2024 09:56:00 am

That fake telegram is a laugh up Ian's own sleeve.

Ian thanked himself.

Ian Cowper Ross at Reynardswood in Hindhead, is 'Mr Ross'.

Okay, Ian, we got the joke.

Chris Edwards

8/5/2024 02:59:09 pm

A JIMMY RIDDLE
Firstly there was Charles Ross, apparently known as Jimmy to his friends. But we were informed that he couldn’t possibly be known as Jimmy, as his name was Charles, and an informal version would only be “Charlie”
Then another Jimmy was suggested – among the Project Atlanta shareholders, there was a James – or Jimmy. James McKaye from Worthing was a small shareholder (100 shares) in the company.
The latest revelation is that Jimmy is none other than Ian Ross, but using a previous “investigative” method, Ian couldn’t possibly be Jimmy, as his name is Ian, and would guess an informal version would also be Ian.

Mervyn Hagger

8/5/2024 09:42:55 pm

Don't try to confuse the issue Chris.

In the beginning according to the myth there were 3 people = Ronan O'Rahilly, Christopher Moore and Ian Ross.

I personally bought the wedding certificate of Ian Ross to show who he really was, and who his parents really were. I discovered that his dad's name was Charles Edward Ross. There was NO 'Jimmy' and NO ONE EVER mentioned a 'Jimmy' until Ian Cowper Ross made him up.

Ian Cowper Ross lived at Reynardswood, Hindhead and that was confirmed in many news items which came from COURT records which you don't ever want to talk about.

Read what the fake telegram says: it reads 'Mr Ross' - NOT "Jimmy Ross".

The entire bio of Ronan O'Rahilly from 1961 to 1963 was a FAKE and Ian Cowper Ross has taken it one step further. Even Chris Moore turned out to be born in CALIFORNIA and his first name is Stephen. His dad died and his Mother gave Stephen her maiden name!

These are facts which I have shared with you and many anoraks, but unless someone is paying to keep the fake Radio Caroline story going (as recited by Ray Clark), then the only other explanation is that anoraks are indeed a religious cult of true believes in rubbish.

Mervyn Hagger and Project Atlanta Limited

8/5/2024 09:52:34 pm

Stop trying to muddy the water Chris.

Ian Ross was 'Mr Ross' on that fake telegram.

As for Project Altanta Limited - it NEVER ran out of money because it did include a James Deterding - known to his friends 'Jimmy' which I have published many times before. Who was he? None other than the grandson of the founder of SHELL OIL, and the story of Radio Caroline connects to the search for and discovery of North Sea gas and oil. I have previously published that as well.

Project Atlanta Limited funded both Atlanta and Caroline and it was the ONLY company that could have done so.

Allan Crawford dropped out due to organized crime and Oliver Smedley created another company to 'invade' Radio City. For proof of that, ask Susan Calvert - its in her book (which happens to be one of the very few books on this subject that I would wholeheartedly recommend!)

Missed opportunities

9/5/2024 06:09:12 am

"I have no need to talk to Ian Ross""

Perhaps Mervyn's fear is that ICR would not talk to him, or that he would find out something that he doesn't want to hear.

Own goal

8/5/2024 08:57:57 pm

"Mike, if the posts submitted do not include an authentic first and second name..........."

What, like these, you mean?

Just a suggestion from Mervyn
James McGregor = can you read?

Mervyn's Challenge presented to Chris Edwards

9/5/2024 09:13:57 am

Okay Chris, enough of the song and dance. I have reviewed my old emails and I notice that you have received my previous research years ago. So, with that factor in mind, answer this question:

If Charles Orr Stanley did NOT create Radio Caroline by arranging its financing, etc., beginning in late 1963, then who did?

If you remove all of the statements derived from Ian Ross that all stemmed from his novel and from his subsequent 'interview' with Ray Clark which have been published on line and in Ray Clark's books, then tell me, who did finance Radio Caroline beginning in 1963 to arrange for the purchase of the mv Fredericia in December of that year?

Show me the proof of an alternative explanation, given that the very detailed information about the formation and investment of Project Altanta Limited is available and shows that it has top-line wealthy backers?

Planet Productions Ltd in Dublin was NOT formed by Ronan O'Rahilly and it was NOT created until the Spring of 1964 - long after the mv Fredericia had been bought and outfitted as a radio ship.

Jocelyn Stevens did not speak-up and claim involvement until 1964 and he was not shown to be an investor in anything to do with Radio Caroline for months after it began.

Ronan O'Rahilly arrived in London during 1961 from Ireland at a time when rooming houses spat upon the Irish, Blacks and dogs (in that order), and if Ronan O'Rahilly by his own on camera admission says that he had no money when he arrived, and if he DID have to work for Peter Rachman and people like the Krays, he could not finance anything and no one had any respect for his business acumen.

Stephen Christopher Moore from California was a small club DJ, and he had no money and no business abilities. In fact, he SUED Ronan O'Rahilly in 1964 for misleading him!

Ian Ross was just out of his teens and a reckless record of crashing into a shop on a motorbike, and into a bus - head-on in a Jensen car which landed him in hospital where he almost lost a foot and got the nickname 'Flipper' due to his deformity, and that landed him in court where he was banned from driving and fined. His dad made him get a job to pay his fine, but Ian Ross never learned and soon he was back in court for more driving offences. He had no money and he had no business acumen.

So given all of that Chris, who arranged for the financing of Radio Caroline in 1963, IF you remove the clear-cut statement that YOU discovered in the archives which said that it was Charles Orr Stanley with help from his son?

It's all very well for the anoraks to call me names (especially after Garry Stevens in 2019 was backing me to continue - BEFORE he suddenly switched to back Paul Rusling's fraudulent book, but Rusling only parroted the nonsense created by Ian Ross.

Remember, I was the one who investigated Ian Ross and discovered his middle name, and the real names of his father and mother.

I am also the person who discovered what Charles Edward Ross did for a living: he sold dry-cleaning franchises for a company that began in Scotland and relocated to Chelsea.

Ian Ross did not even know that the Kenya Coffee Shop had become KENCO long before his nonsense stories began. Ian Ross was a privileged spoilt kid who attended Repton private school and who had a step-brother whose life story he stole for his novel. It was his step-brother and his partner who had a car wash business on King's Road, along with a restaurant. Not Ian. Ian had nothing but a court record and a fine to pay!

So come on Chris. YOU found the hard evidence to show that Charles Orr Stanley was involved in a LOT more than just Radio Caroline, and then I found a library full of supporting documentation to back it up.

If it was not Charles Orr Stanley and his son, then who was the founding father of Radio Caroline?

Show everyone the alternative PROOF.

It does not exist.

What does exist is the very recent reemergence of a London business calling itself 'Flippers' which is dependent upon the Ian Ross lies, and by the way, he has a home in Italy, or were you not aware of that big publicity burst in recent times?

It is Ian Cowper Ross and his kids who have everything to fear if the truth becomes known that Ian Ross is a fraudster who has built a life of conning people into believing that he was a founder of Radio Caroline, when he was really a kid who owed a court money for reckless behaviour which almost killed him and innocent people by his actions.

There is the challenge Chris, now tell us the answer or admit that I have been telling the TRUTH.

Mervyn = DISCLAIMER!

9/5/2024 10:28:16 am

In response to 'Nick' on the Garry Stevens' Board today, I deny that I am 'Mike', who no doubt will add his own disclaimer and assure you, 'Nick', that this Board belongs to Mike who is not related in any way to me, either by family or even geographically.

Second, 'Nick', I want to correct your statement that: "I think his tactic of rubbishing everybody who produced a work covering Radio Caroline is unraveling a bit."

That is also untrue.

I have told Susan Calvert and I have told my own readers, that Susan's books are extremely accurate as far as her own personal involvement goes, and unique in that one of her books lifts the lid off who Oliver Smedley represented by raiding Radio City and shooting to death her father, Reg Calvert.

It was not Allan Crawford, nor was it Project Atlanta Limited. Smedley had formed and registered a new company which I knew nothing about until I read Susan's book, and it you think Smedley was operating on behalf of Crawford or Project Atlanta Limited, then you should BUY her book. It is a good read and certainly worthy of addition to a broadcasting library collection.

Get your facts right first, before posting, 'Nick'.

Mervyn to the "Board Watcher"

9/5/2024 11:15:40 am

Who you are is not clear because you are AFRAID to identify yourself, but you seem to be associated with Ray Clark's book because you report that Amazon removed my review 3 times.

But that is not really the truth, is it?

I bought all 3 editions of Ray Clark's book, but the last one came from an affiliate of Amazon, and they are the ones YOU have been targeting.

What YOU do not seem to understand is that I bought the original Ray Clark book years ago and posted a review. It went unchallenged for years. Then I updated it via the Amazon affiliate when I bought the last version, and then YOU started attacking my reviews and getting the affiliate to remove them.

However, there are other negative one star reviews still on site which label Ray Clark's book as rubbish.

Perhaps 'Board Watcher' will now have the guts to identify himself, or not. Perhaps 'Board Watcher' is none other than Ray Clark because 'Board Watcher' seems to have a financial interest in shutting down criticism.

Perhaps 'Board Watcher' should take a look today at the 'all about Caroline' web site and take note of the glowing 2019 endorsement I received from Garry Stevens for unmasking what HE called the 'Church of Caroline'.

Go on, 'Board Watcher', tell everyone that I wrote that endorsement just as your pal Nick thinks that I am Mike who runs this Board. I am sure Mike will soon have something to say about that, although he has said it many times before: He is not me and he is in no way associated with what I am working on with two other people.

Board Watcher

9/5/2024 01:37:12 pm

Amazon reviews do not distinguish whether a book is bought direct or via an affiliate. Reviews are attached to the item.

Who says that I have been targeting them? Another wild assumption. I read here that your so called review had been taken down, so checked to see if you were capable of writing one which was not defamatory or libellous, and unsurprisingly you were not.I did not 'attack your reviews', but they were obviously reported to Amazon, not an affiliate, and removed by Amazon, not an affiliate.

Just to correct you, there are three one star reviews"

'Very boring'
Boring and repetitive', and
'Not yet read sorry'

So you stating that the other reviews label the book as rubbish are untrue and you are a liar.

For your further information, I am not Ray Clark and how you manage to deduce that I have a financial interest in shutting down criticism is ludicrous.

I have looked at Garry's 'glowing endorsement'. You didn't unmask anything. You practically destroyed his discussion board and were ejected as far as I can tell. Certainly, his faith in having you as an administrator was soon called into question due to your inability to fulfil that role competently.

Oh. ,and Nick is not my pal. I don't know who he is.

Got any more wild and untrue theories?

Mike (Admin)

9/5/2024 12:48:23 pm

Oh dear "Nick" has just made a twat of himself over on Garry's Board. You see Nick I am not Mervyn as has been made clear here on numerous occasions in the past, but little trolls like you are desperate to score petty points as you never have anything of real value to add.

You really do need to try harder....

Posted by Nick on May 9, 2024, 8:35 am, in reply to "Re: Jimmy Ross"

I know I shouldn’t, but I do dip in to the Hagger board on occasion. It’s amusing when he refers to “Mike” as the board admin when it is obviously himself.

I think his tactic of rubbishing everybody who produced a work covering Radio Caroline is unraveling a bit. Ok, he may have had some substance in being critical at a previous patchwork of a book, but in fairness Ray Clark has produced something that makes sense and is based mainly on recollections of people who were there. That’s not to say it is 100% accurate, nothing is in offshore radio.

The start of the unraveling might be as the respected offshore radio journalist Chris Edwards has challenged some of Hagger’s writings. At the moment Hagger is stepping back from his usual bluster and insults with Chris due to seemingly having some respect following some past collaboration.

However, I wonder how long that will last as Chris challenges some of Hagger’s claims.

Watch that space.

I knew summer had arrived when I could hear loons shouting and banging in the street

9/5/2024 03:16:04 pm

Posted by neilgates on May 9, 2024, 12:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Rockstar Classic Rock"
I shall say again just so that it enters your thick head. This station has Nothing to do with me and I was only commenting on your rude and ignorant reply to the original post.

Nick (Transplanted)

9/5/2024 06:42:41 pm

Posted by Nick on May 9, 2024, 1:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Jimmy Ross"
Check the positioning of the “Mike (admin)” response. Proves my point I feel.

Lurker

9/5/2024 09:25:20 pm

I would not take any notice of Nick, he never has anything constructive to say over on Garry's board, he's just your average every day Anorak nobody with delusions of importance. Ignore him Mike (for I know that is You and not Mr Hagger) although no doubt he will accuse me of being one of you such is sad way.

He will never be satisfied with the truth unless it is exactly what he thinks, sad but just check back on all his comments over there

Board Watcher

9/5/2024 10:52:41 pm

I did respond to Hagger's nonsense directed at me, but either it has been censored or it's 'lost in the post'.

Board Watcher

10/5/2024 12:08:53 pm

Ah, it's there now, thank you

Board Watcheer who went to Specsavers

11/5/2024 11:26:50 am

Ah, I am told it was there.

Mervyn Hagger to 'Board Watcher'

10/5/2024 01:03:47 pm

Well, obviously you can't read because it was posted, and what you posted indicates that you do indeed have a vested financial interest in all of this. Otherwise, why would you bother? Clearly you are scared stiff of being exposed in words and pictures, so be careful, exposure in words, pictures, identity and location may be on their way. So far we haven't bothered, but maybe we should?

Board Watcher

10/5/2024 10:12:42 pm

Actually it was posted after I queried it'

Board Watcher

10/5/2024 10:31:28 pm

Actually it was posted after I queried it's omission, so there's another thing you are wrong about.

I note that you have chosen not to respond to my comments other than to reiterate that I must have a financial interest, which I do not. You avoid the issues with threats as is your wont.

Why would I bother? Because, Mr Hagger, you need to be held to account.. You believe that I have an ulterior motive. I wonder what yours is.

I very much doubt that many care about your vendetta - sorry, your 'investigation', let alone wish to stop it. You must surely be aware that your conspiracy theories, accusations and attacks are becoming ever more extreme and nonsensical.

I implore you to finish and publish your book. After all isn't that the objective after all this time?

Mervyn Hagger's Diary

10/5/2024 02:11:24 pm

It's something I should have assembled years ago, but I didn't. Now that I have begun to assemble a very detailed timeline and diary, it becomes very obvious who is trying to stop this investigation and why.

Malcolm the ex-grease monkey, and his bedroom-closet kids are but pawns in something tied to a lot of money which has nothing to do with Ronan O'Rahilly or Malcolm's rust bucket and toy radio station.

But there is no doubt that they are being used and they don't know how or why.

However, the face behind the curtain is revealing itself via my diary, and no wonder that person does not want the real story to be told.

If the mainstream media gets hold of one part of this story and begins to see where it leads, well one person now living will be in some difficulty and a lot of reputations belonging to deceased participants will be tarnished.

Think Jimmy Saville plus millions of Pounds.

You can't say "Jimmy Saville" any more without triggering a nasty picture from the past.

The name Radio Caroline may be heading in that same direction.

Curious

10/5/2024 10:50:00 pm

Sounds interesting!

Looking forward to reading your revelations and your exposure of these trolls. Keep up the good work!

Prove it - Board Watcher

11/5/2024 11:28:51 am

Board Watcher10/5/2024 10:12:42 pm
Actually it was posted after I queried it'

Using your own standards of superficial nonsense: PROVE IT!

Mervyn Hagger and ongoing research

12/5/2024 11:14:12 am

The main reason it has taken so long from 2014 until now (2024) is as follows:

Although Chris Edwards in partnership with us (TIO), set out to uncover the authentic story of Radio Caroline, he dropped out after HE discovered a 'smoking gun'.

What Chris Edwards discovered, but which he never explained to his OEM readers (which we (TRIO) did in a published monograph), is the real meaning of the single and confusing paragraph which appeared on page 276 of the IEE book 'Radio Man'.

As written and published, that IEE book told a lie.Yet it pointed to Charles Orr Stanley and his son John as the real creators of Radio Caroline!

That evidence blew away the myths spun by Ronan O'Rahilly which were then promoted by Ian Cowper Ross. In essence, that evidence destroyed the bedrock story about Radio Caroline that had been (falsely) claimed by Ronan O'Rahilly.

It also destroyed the foundation upon which Don Pierson had built Radio London, and thus part of our (TRIO) academic monographs published by various universities.

We (TRIO) then began writing a new series of published commentaries documenting our new research to find the authentic story of Charles Orr Stanley (Pye) and Radio Caroline.

Two things have slowed us (Trio) down.

One is related to the deliberate falsification by Ian Cowper Ross for personal financial gain, of a fake history created by him, his aristocratic mother-in-law and then BBC-TV.

It all began in the year 1990, because that is when Ian Cowper Ross wrote and published a novel in which he called himself Paul Shaw, and his father Jim Shaw. These characters were created from the real lives of other people. It was a form of identity theft, except that Ian Cowper Ross claimed that it was fiction - a novel.

But then along came Ray Clark, a low-level BBC radio employee who 'interviewed' Ian Cowper Ross for his own book about Radio Caroline. So far there have been 3 editions of that book, but in 2024, the fake storyline has not changed.

What Ian Cowper Ross did on BBC-TV back in 1991, was to begin hinting that parts of his novel were really parts of his own true biography. That was a lie, which he began to expand when Ray Clark came along and 'interviewed' him.

Whether Ray Clark is just a gullible fool, or whether he set out to deliberately mislead everyone, including Ofcom so that Malcolm Smith who falsely claimed on government documents that he was 'Peter Moore' in order to get a broadcasting licence for a brand new and totally unrelated station calling itself Radio Caroline, is open to question.

However, circumstantial evidence now points to a conspiratorial series of acts involving Ray Clark to assist Malcolm Smith into defrauding UK taxpayers into getting a licence for his sham Radio Caroline - because it is registered as a charity.

Therefore Ray Clark and Malcolm Smith have everything to FEAR from being exposed by our (TRIO) investigation, but they are also joined by Ian Cowper Ross who built a new residence in Italy.

However, Liberty Ross, the daughter of Ian Cowper Ross, has recently (after Covid) began to build a brand new international business upon the foundational lies spun by her father. They began with the fictitious claims in his 1990 novel, when started to hint on BBC-TV that parts of it were renditions of a true biographical account of his own life.

But Ian Cowper Ross made one FATAL mistake. Not in his novel, nor on BBC-TV, but in allowing another person from Ireland to take one TRUE part of Ian's real life events, and to use it for the name an entirely new business.

Decades later, his daughter Liberty revived that same name for her brand-new business. Then mass media began to repeat the FAKE background story of her father.

According to these new, news stories, Ian Cowper Ross was one of the founders of Radio Caroline back in 1964.

However, Ian Cowper Ross did not even claim that in his 1990 novel, because he never referred to Radio Caroline, or Ronan O'Rahilly, or even his true identity. A publisher did that on the dust jacket!

Ian Cowper Ross faked the story of his novel by even including parts of the life story of his real stepbrother, and claiming them for his fictitious character called Paul Shaw.

Had Chris Edwards followed our lead (TRIO) and told HIS readers that the story he had previously told them about Ronan O'Rahilly was a FAKE, and had he continued with us (TRIO) and begun to publish a brand new (TRUE) story about Ronan O'Rahilly and Radio Caroline, all of the anoraks would also know the truth, and Malcolm Smith would probably never, ever have got his licence for his FAKE Radio Caroline.

But that did not happen.

What did happen is that beginning with Garry Stevens who at first promoted our (TRIO) research, but then switched to back LIARS like Paul Rusling, Ray Clark and Malcolm Smith (who Garry Stevens also fell out with), then there would NOT be a small group of childish, bedroom anoraks writing under silly names all trying to prevent us (TRIO) from tel

Why not?

13/5/2024 12:19:27 am

"and Malcolm Smith would probably never, ever have got his licence for his FAKE Radio Caroline."

WHY

You can name anything anything that is not copyrighted

That is why the bloodline of the supply of the offshore station had to be registered

It has nothing to do with Ian Ross and a silly book

It is business fact

Correction for Mr Hagger

13/5/2024 09:13:38 am

".............Radio Caroline - because it is registered as a charity."

No it isn't. The charity relates to the restoration of the Ross Revenge, not the radio station.

Mervyn Hagger with apologies

12/5/2024 08:18:55 pm

I wrote that rather lengthy post using this box, and in the process I missed out letters and wrote 'began' instead of begun, etc., etc.

No doubt the bedroom anoraks will feast upon all of that, but I would like them to eventually tell us who they think 'Jimmy Ross' was, and how an Irishman without money could suddenly come into so much money to start a radio station on a ship in a foreign country?

That story not only does not make sense, but it defies all logic and possibility of truth.

But never mind, tell us where the money came from.

While you are at it, ask Chris Edwards what he discovered and then ask him why he is denying that found anything that supports what I have been telling everyone.

I wait without holding my breath.

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