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ABBA, 3, 16, 226, 299
Abdallah, President Ahmed, 148–9
abortion, 86, 135–6
Agnew, Vice-President Spiro, 24, 26
Ali, Muhammad, 6, 172
Ali, Tariq: expects British revolution soon, 51
approves of violence, 73
except in London, 75
All the President’s Men, 12, 33, 34, 179, 271, 280, 283, 291, 297, 301
Allbeury, Ted, 258
Allen, Sir Douglas, 61, 62
Allen, Gary, 289
Allen, Paul, 17
Allende, Salvador, 12, 58, 62, 68, 178, 220, 251, 272–3
American Psychiatric Association, 139
Amin, President Idi, 10, 144, 216, 230–9, 292
likened to Pol Pot, 144
likened to Lady Falkender, 216
prehistoric monster, 226, 236
splendid rugger player, 231
comic figure, 234–6
lord of all the beasts and fishes, 238
mass-murderer, 243–4
Amis, Kingsley, 55, 248
Amis, Martin, 308–9
Anderson, Jack, 293
Anderson, Jim, 121, 123, 125, 132
Anderson, William, 174
Angleton, James Jesus, 261–2
Angola, 149, 227–8, 229
Angry Brigade, 10, 69, 75–8, 84
apocalyptic dread, 9
apocalyptic psychopathy, 5
Are You Being Served?, 138, 203
Argyle, Judge Michael, 122, 124–7, 129, 131, 132, 133
Armed Forces Movement (Portugal), 226–7
Armstrong, Robert, 61, 297
Armstrong, Sir William, 60–2
Ashbery, John, 138
Astles, Bob, 240–3
Atlantic Monthly, 296
Aylestone, Lord, 81
Baader, Andreas, 90, 91, 94
Baader-Meinhof Complex, The, 299
Baader-Meinhof Group, 10, 69, 70, 77, 87, 89–92, 94–5, 224
Backster, Cleve: intimate with plants, 188
Baker Hall, Philip, 33
Balogh, Lord, 217
Barber, Anthony, 45, 62
Barker, John, 76
Barnett, Correlli, 203–4, 206
Barnett, Joel, 201
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 3, 9, 81, 185, 188, 213, 216–17, 254, 259, 268, 269, 298
Beach, General Sir Hugh, 257
Beatles, The, 4, 5, 10, 135, 183, 216
Beatty, Warren, 283, 301
Benin: holds record for coups, 150
Benn, Caroline, 220, 223, 266
Benn, Tony, 1, 48, 59, 62, 217–18, 221, 225, 245, 251, 253, 256, 260, 265–6, 267, 268, 309
visits fortune teller, 56
wild surmises, 219
death threats, 222–4
watches too much TV, 266
Benton, Kenneth, 258–9, 260
Berger, Grace, 127
Berlitz, Charles, 304
Berman, Paul, 87–9
Bernstein, Carl, 115, 269, 280, 297, 301
Biafra, 145, 147
Birmingham bombing, 85, 217
Black and White Minstrel Show, 186, 235
Black Panthers, 66, 74, 76, 173
Black September, 88, 89
Blair, Tony, 4, 16
Bloody Sunday, 44–5, 79, 83, 297
blowing: see cunnilingus
Boardman, Tom, 47
Boggs, Hale, 174–5
Bokassa, Emperor Jean-Bedel, 237–8
Böll, Heinrich, 69
Booker, Christopher, 1, 3, 7, 8
Bormann, Martin, 276
Bowden, Lord, 59
Bowie, David, 2, 3, 17
Bradlee, Ben, 172, 291
Bremer, Arthur, 283, 285–9, 299
Brezhnev, Leonid, 86, 105, 158, 163, 289
Brookings Institution, 108–10
Bryant, Anita, 140–1
Bukovsky, Vladimir, 156, 157–9, 161, 162
Burden, Brian, 273
Bush, President George H.W., 268, 278
Bush, President George W., 134, 278, 294, 295
Butterfield, Alexander, 35, 38, 117
Caetano, President Marcello, 227
Callaghan, James, 240, 248, 251, 268, 271, 308
Cambodia, 144, 292–3, 294
invasion of, 20–3, 26, 30, 303
Campbell, Duncan, 309–10
Campbell Exner, Judith, 15, 276
Canada, 71, 188, 230, 249, 285
Carlos the Jackal, see Sánchez, Ilich Ramírez
Carr, Robert, 76–7
Carswell, G. Harrold, 22–3
Carter, Chris, 297
Carter, President Jimmy, 182
Carver, Sir Michael, 43–4
Castle, Barbara, 209–10, 221, 270
Castro, President Fidel, 64, 67, 93, 228, 276
assassination plots against, 15, 178, 197, 275
Caulfield, Jack, 23, 107, 109
Cayzer, Lord, 252–3
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 5, 12, 22, 39, 74, 107, 184, 228, 242, 256, 264, 278, 280, 281, 282
illegal operations by, 11, 13, 176–7, 178–9, 180–3, 197, 291
mistrust of, 15, 53, 183, 220, 222, 245, 261–2, 265, 268–9, 281, 290
and Watergate, 116, 168
and President Kennedy, 276, 291
Chalfont, Lord, 257–8
Champlin, Charles, 120, 281
Chapple, Frank, 47
Chesterton, G.K., 11
Chile, 12, 58, 59, 62, 67, 178, 220, 251, 256, 272, 276, 277
China, 8, 28, 151–7, 162, 228, 285, 294, 308, 310
Nixon goes to, 32, 155–6, 163–5
Chinatown, 12, 34, 301
Church, Senator Frank, 11, 15, 166, 180, 181, 183, 184, 276
Churchill, Lady, 40, 41
Clash, The, 2
Clawson, Kenneth, 286
Clockwork Orange, A, 286, 288–9
Coates, Ken, 220
Coe, Jonathan, 16
Cointelpro, 172–4
see also FBI Colby, William, 176–82
Colditz, 202
Colson, Charles (‘Chuck’): Nixon’s chief ass-kicker, 96–7, 98, 102, 104, 114, 118, 120
proposes firebombing, 109
proposes break-in, 287
compiles enemies list, 306
Comfort, Alex, 135
Comoros, 148, 149
computers, 17, 18, 306
Conversation, The, 9, 12, 34, 118,119, 120
Coppola, Francis Ford, 9, 118
Coren, Alan, 234–6
Cosgrave, Patrick, 57–8
Courtiour, Roger, 269–71
Cox, Archibald, 118, 119
Creek, Hilary, 75–6
CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President), 112, 113, 115
Crozier, Brian, 256–7, 259
cunnilinctus: see cunnilingus
cunnilingus: unknown to Judge Argyle, 124, 125
Dad’s Army, 90, 202, 203
Daily Express, 48, 80, 85–6, 126, 203, 213, 221, 267, 276, Daily Mail, 213, 220
Daily Telegraph, 52, 131, 204, 231, 252, 254–5
Davies, John, 55
Dayan, Moshe, 232–3
de Bernières, Louis, 16, 17
de Bono, Edward: no expert on bear’s penis, 126
de Gaulle, General Charles, 204
Dean, John, 13, 109, 113, 114 117, 118, 284
and enemies list, 97–8, 106
on cancer in presidency, 116, 307
Debray, Régis, 67
Deedes, Bill, 254–5
Deep Throat (film), 135
Deep Throat (Watergate source), 34, 269, 280, 293
DeLillo, Don, 272, 284
Deliverance, 306
Denard, Bob, 146, 147–9
Dennis, Felix, 121, 123, 125, 132
Detengov, Professor Fyodor, 161
Devlin, Bernadette, 44
Dick, Philip K: visitation from Sirius, 195–7
letters to FBI, 198–200
Dickerson, Nancy, 26–7
Didion, Joan, 5, 6, 310
Dimbleby, David, 186, 190
divorce, 135–6, 140–1
Donoughue, Bernard: works for Wilson, 207, 210, 216, 218–19, 247
endures Marcia’s tantrums, 211–15, 220
contemplates emigration, 217, 248
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec: guesses Nixon’s secret, 38–9, 117
Drabble, Margaret, 7, 254
Driberg, Tom, 131
Drury, Commander Kenneth, 133
Duel, 279, 306
Duncan, Sir Val, 254–5
Duvall, Robert, 32
Dylan, Bob, 182, 183
Eagleburger, Lawrence, 36
Eagleton, Senator Thomas, 25, 169
Eban, Abba, 232–3
Economist, The, 46, 93
Edwards, Bob, 222
Ehrlich, Paul, 8, 9
Ehrlichman, John, 37, 108, 118
disapproves of Nazi acronym, 108
approves of break-ins, 109–10, 111
denies Nixon is paranoid, 119
writes novel, 290–1
Elizabeth I, Queen, 149
Elizabeth II, Queen, 5, 17, 56, 207, 209, 232, 239
Ellsberg, Daniel: leaks Pentagon Papers, 100
infuriates Nixon and Kissinger, 102, 104, 110–11
pioneers madman theory, 104–6
Ensslin, Gudrun, 91
Equatorial Guinea, 142–7, 237
Erdos, Alfred, 142–3
Ervin, Senator Sam, 116–19
European Economic Community, 203–4, 206, 215, 218, 249
Evans, Dr Chris, 189
Evans, Harold, 254, 255
Executive Action, 282–3, 294
Fahrenheit 9/11, 294–5
Falkender, Baroness (Marcia Williams):
squabbles and screeches, 210–16
hates whitebait, 211, 215
takes sedatives, 215, 220
fear of military coup, 218
fear of orgies, 222, 270
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The, 246–7, 253, 298
Faludi, Susan, 134
fascist insect, the, 77
Faulks, Sebastian, 16
Fawlty Towers, 2, 3
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): spies on John Lennon, 10
illegal operations by 11, 12, 172–6
taps reporters’
phones, 36, 98
in a sulk, 107
symbol of righteousness, 171
enhances paranoia, 174, 175, 183, 200, 276, 306
and Norman Mailer, 168–70, 184
and Philip K. Dick, 198–200
Feeney, Mark, 31, 34, 282
fellatio: unknown to Judge Argyle, 124
Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo, 69
Fenwick, DCI George, 121, 133, 134
Ferguson, Professor Niall, 299
Field, Peggy (Lady Falkender’s sister): theft of handbag, 222, 270
George Bush’s assurance about boyfriend, 268
Field, Tony (Lady Falkender’s brother), 212
breaks into Marcia’s garage, 219
Fielding, Dr Lewis: burgled by Plumbers, 110, 111
Financial Times, 49, 246
Fischer, Bobby, 10, 105
Fischer, Joschka, 92–3
Foco Novo, 74
Fonda, Jane, 34, 97, 164
Foot, Paul, 51
Ford, President Gerald, 33, 177, 178–9, 180, 181, 182, 273, 274
Ford, Harrison, 34, 119
Forsyth, Frederick: The Day of the Jackal,
145, 146, 224, 247
The Dogs of War,
142, 145–8, 149, 150
Foster, Dr Marcus, 74
Fowles, John, 249
Frankenheimer, John, 282
Frazier, Joe, 6, 172
Frost, David, 20, 102–3, 109
Frost/Nixon, 20, 32, 33, 299
Frum, David, 134
Futurama, 32
Gaddafi, Colonel Muammar, 224, 233
Gaitskell, Hugh, 42, 260, 261
Gandhi, Indira, 307, 308
Garrison, Jim, 275–6
Gary, Romain, 173
Gates, Bill, 17
Gauche Proletarienne (‘the Maos’), 88–9
Gay, Alexander, 145–6
Gay Liberation Front, 139
Geller, Uri: bends cutlery, 186, 188–90
meets extra-terrestrials, 191–2, 193
turns into a hawk, 194–5
Giancana, Sam, 15, 174, 276
Glucksmann, André, 87–9
gobbling: see cunnilingus Godfather, The, 2, 3, 34, 304
going down: see cunnilingus Goldsmith, Teddy, 8, 307
Gorbanevskaya, Natalya, 160
Gott, Richard, 67
Graham, Billy, 111, 112, 118
Grayson, Larry, 138
Greengrass, Paul, 297–8
Greer, Germaine, 134, 135, 136
Griffiths, Trevor: The Party, 49–50, 53–4
Griffiths-Jones, Mr Justice, 132–3
Grigorenko, Major-General Pyotr, 160–2
Groundhogs, The, 40
Guardian, 59, 131, 223–4, 250, 272–3
Guevara, Che, 64, 67, 78, 94, 122, 164
Guha, Ramachandra, 308
Guildford bombing, 85, 217
Guinea-Bissau, 150, 227
Hackman, Gene, 33
Haig, Alexander, 26
Haines, Joe: works for Wilson, 207, 209, 210, 212–13, 215, 218–19, 222, 267
endures Marcia’s tantrums, 211, 213–14
unwilling to murder her, 215–16
Haldeman, H.R. (‘Bob’), 21, 22, 36, 37, 98, 293
conversations with Nixon, 9, 23, 27, 30, 99–100, 103, 104, 108, 111, 112, 114, 292
gobbledygook, 11
‘weirdest day so far’, 29
White House taping system, 35, 37, 38, 118
fellow of infinite jest, 292
Hall, Peter, 49, 54, 249
Hamilton Fairley, Professor Gordon, 266
Hanley, Sir Michael,309
Harper’s (magazine), 287–8, 308
Harrow School songs, 40–2
Hartwell, Lady: fond of hippies, 132
Haseler, Stephen, 258, 307
Hashimoto, Ken: has performing cactus, 188
Healy, Gerry: rapist, 50
revolutionary ringmaster, 52, 54, 58–9
recruiter of Redgraves, 53
Hearst, Patty, 10, 253
Heath, Edward, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 51, 59, 60, 61, 62, 76, 82, 206, 209, 211, 217, 223, 230, 231, 248, 251, 268
states of emergency, 7, 42, 48, 59, 185, 207, 238, 250
as Empress of Blandings, 38
meanness of, 42, 45
corpulence of, 48
speaks French badly, 204
grumpiness of, 205
as obstinate jackass, 208
Helms, Richard, 176, 290–2
Hennessy, Peter, 60
Hensher, Philip, 16
Hersh, Seymour M., 176, 178–80
Higby, Larry, 38
Hill, Lord, 81
Hills, Denis, 240–1
Hoare, ‘Mad Mike’, 146, 147–8, 149–50
Hoffman, Abbie, 129
Hofstadter, Richard: on the paranoid style, 14, 15, 274, 302, 304
homosexuality, 131, 138–40, 209, 276, 305
Hoover, J. Edgar: dealings with Nixon, 35,36, 98, 106
mistrusted by Norman Mailer, 168
spies on Mailer, 168, 169–70
worships mothers, 171
hates hippies, 172
hates Martin Luther King, 173
blackmails politicians, 174–5,
death, 176
Hopkins, Anthony, 33
Horne, Donald, 203
Houphouët-Boigny, President Félix, 229–30
Humphrey, Vice-President Hubert H., 181, 268, 288
Hunt, E. Howard: cloak-and-dagger antics, 12, 13–14, 107, 108, 110–16, 291, 293
cloak-and-dagger novels, 13–14, 107, 281
Hunter, Meredith, 5
Hurd, Douglas, 18, 45, 61
Hutschnecker, Dr Arnold, 25
Illuminatus! Trilogy, The, 12, 16, 163, 194, 196, 197, 276
Inglis, Brian, 187, 188
Inman, John, 138
Institute for the Study of Conflict, 259
Internal Revenue Service, 98, 111, 184
International Marxist Group, 51, 67, 75, 223
International Socialists, 51, 122
Israel, 47, 54, 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 186, 189, 191, 232–3
IT (International Times), 121, 131
ITT, 12, 272–3
Ivory Coast, 150, 229
Jackson, Geoffrey, 63–6, 67
Jagger, Mick, 94, 277
Jaws, 279, 280, 306
Jenkin, Patrick: brushing teeth in the dark, 48
Jenkins, Roy, 129, 134, 207, 251, 253, 265
Jiang Qing (Madame Mao): morbidly sensitive, 9, 153, 154
falls off lavatory, 155
Jobs, Steve, 18
John Birch Society, 14, 163, 284, 289
Johnson, President Lyndon B., 35, 99, 108, 110, 111, 176, 275
Johnson, Paul, 203–4
Jones, Jim, 101, 238
Jong, Erica, 136, 303–4
Joseph, Sir Keith, 223, 253
Jung, Carl, 192
Kael, Pauline, 22
Kalb, Marvin, 36
Keegan, John, 255
Kennedy, Senator Edward, 23, 97, 107, 181
Kennedy, Jackie, 165, 169
Kennedy, President John F., 6, 21, 30, 32, 33, 99, 102, 104, 167, 290, 291
assassination theories, 14–15, 16, 168, 169, 179, 224, 273–7, 282–4, 299
Kennedy, Robert, 170, 276, 291, 299
Kent State University (Ohio), 5, 24, 25
Kershaw, Andy, 310–11
KGB (Soviet intelligence), 258, 276, 309
and Harold Wilson, 10, 221, 260, 261–5, 297
and Russian dissidents, 157–61
and Philip K. Dick, 199
and Tony Benn, 222
Khrushchev, Nikita, 157–8
Kim Il Sung, 164, 310
King, Cecil, 255
King, Martin Luther, 167, 173, 181, 299
Kissinger, Henry, 20, 23, 24, 25, 38, 59, 109, 129, 136, 151, 163, 178, 228, 236, 264
relations with Nixon, 21, 22, 27, 29, 35, 36, 37, 96–7, 112, 156, 291, 293
paranoia, 36, 103, 111
fixation with Ellsberg, 104–6
Klein, Hans-Joachim, 92
Kleindienst, Richard, 13, 175–6
Klute, 12, 34
Koestler, Arthur, 187, 194, 274
Krogh, Egil (‘Bud’), 12, 27–9, 96, 107
Kubrick, Stanley, 289
Kunzru, Hari, 16, 69
Kureishi, Hanif, 16, 17
Kyemba, Henry, 231
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 4, 123, 125, 135, 139
Laing, Hector, 254
Laing, R.D., 15
Lancaster, Burt, 282, 304
Langella, Frank, 33
Larkin, Philip, 4, 6, 46
Lasch, Christopher, 137, 275, 277
Last Tango in Paris, 135
Leach, Edmund, 79–80
Leahy, Donald, 142
Leary, Brian, 123–8
Leary, Timothy, 195
Lees-Milne, James, 18
Lennon, John, 10, 66
Lerner, Max, 299, 300, 305–6, 307
Lessing, Doris, 57
Levin, Bernard, 132, 257
Lewis, Anthony, 293
Liddy, G. Gordon, 12, 110, 112–14, 115, 116, 174, 281
Nazi fetish, 107, 108, 111, 113, 171
proposes murder, 293
Life (magazine), 21
‘Life on Mars’ (David Bowie), 3
Life on Mars (TV series), 3, 16, 296
Lin Biao, 151–3, 155
Lindsey, Hal, 8–9
Little Red Schoolbook, The, 124–5
Litvinenko, Alexander, 298
Longford, Lord: horrified by scanty black corset, 128
Los Angeles Times, 100, 120, 150, 172, 173, 281
Lucan, Earl of, 11, 246, 276
Lunts, Professor Daniil, 159–61
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 14, 15, 162, 300, 302
McCarthy, Mary, 106
McCartney, Paul, 81, 216
McCord, James, 114–16
McGahey, Mick, 47–8
McGovern, George, 114, 115, 287, 288, 289
McGuinness, Martin, 82, 93–4
McIntosh, Ronald, 48, 57, 250
McLuhan, Marshall, 9–10
McNamara, Robert, 99
McWhirter, Ross, 266
Macias Nguema, President Francisco, 143–4, 145, 146–7, 237, 292
Magruder, Jeb Stuart, 12, 113, 114
Mahler, Horst, 90
Maier-Witt, Silke, 90, 92
Mailer, Norman, 12, 283
paranoia, 15–16, 168, 169
birthday party, 166–8, 170, 182–3
FBI file on, 169–70
IRS file on, 184
Mancham, President James, 149
Manners, Elizabeth: deplores masturbation, 124
admits trying it, 125
Manson, Charles, 5, 6, 289, 310
Mao Zedong, Chairman, 9, 10, 151–6, 162–5, 289, 292
Maoists, 71, 87, 88–9, 253
Mardian, Robert, 129–30
Marighella, Carlos: Minimanual of the
Urban Guerrilla, 63, 68, 69, 88, 93, 95
Mark, Sir Robert, 134
Markov, Georgi, 298
Marnham, Patrick, 229, 264, 292
Mars-Jones, Mr Justice, 134
Maudling, Reginald, 44, 60, 133, 134
Medvedev, Zhores, 162
Meinhof, Ulrike, 69, 89, 90, 91, 92
Melly, George, 124, 134
Milk, Harvey, 140, 299
Misery, 33
mistrust: of police and judges, 3, 224
of politicians, 10, 11, 99, 169, 296
of CIA, 182, 280–1
of subordinates by Nixon and Kissinger, 36, 294
of intellectuals, 144, 293
of everybody, 284
Mitchell, John (Cunard boss), 255
Mitchell, John (US politician), 13, 109, 112–14, 118, 172, 220
Mitchell, Joni, 40
Mitchell, Martha, 220
Mitrione, Dan, 64, 74
mobile phones: dearth of in 1970s, 1, 17, 246, 247, 298
Molloy, Mike, 254–5
Monroe, Marilyn, 30, 165, 166, 170
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 78, 185
Moore, Carrie, 28
Moore, Michael, 294–5, 297
Moore, Roger: regrettable lapels, 2
Morgenthau, Hans: mistaken for Robert, 97
Morgenthau, Robert: not Hans, 97
Moro, Aldo, 10
Morozov, Georgi, 159–61
Morrell, Frances, 265
Mortimer, John, 125, 133, 134
Moscone, George, 140
Moss, Robert, 258
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 36
Mozambique, 148, 149, 227
Murdoch, Rupert, 128
Murphy, Alan, 147
Murray, Albert, 211, 215
National Association for Freedom, 258, 266
Network (film), 18
Neville, Richard, 121–3, 125–6, 131, 132
New Republic (magazine), 29
New Statesman, 4, 18, 122, 309
New York Times, 13, 14, 26, 30, 55, 119, 135, 136, 140, 150, 166, 169, 170, 172, 201, 202, 205, 241, 281, 292, 293, 303, 304
publishes Pentagon Papers, 98–100, 106, 108
reveals CIA misdeeds, 176, 178, 280
New Yorker, 22, 299
Nixon, Hannah, 28, 111
Nixon, Julie, 20, 117, 120
Nixon, Pat, 20
Nixon, President Richard M., 20–39, 59, 96–120, 144, 167, 177, 197, 220, 226, 236, 237, 274, 275, 285, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 303, 306, 307
swearing, 6, 23, 35
rage against Jews, 9, 30, 36, 37, 96, 111, 118
and other enemies, 10, 29, 96–8, 100, 162, 184, 292, 293, 306
paranoid style, 10, 21, 29, 36, 98, 103, 105, 111, 119, 164, 197, 287, 293, 297
at the movies, 20–1, 30–2, 282, 304
insomnia, 21–2, 27, 120
in the movies, 32–4, 179, 294, 297
bugs himself, 34–5, 37–9, 117–20, 164
understands madman theory, 104–6
resigns, 119, 176, 273, 294
visits China, 155–6, 162–3, 165
visits Soviet Union, 163
maddened tyrant, 293
see also Watergate
Nixon, Tricia, 20, 99
Nixon in China, 32
Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal, 282–3
North Korea, 164, 310–11
Northern Ireland, 10–11, 43–5, 60, 75, 79–87, 93, 139, 217, 239, 256, 266
Nyerere, President Julius, 234
Obama, President Barack, 300
Obote, President Milton, 230–1, 240, 242
O’Brien, Larry, 114
Obscene Publications Squad, 121, 124, 133–4
Observer, 59, 75,
Oglesby, Carl: ‘In Defence of Paranoia’, 15
oil crisis, 47, 48, 57, 185, 192, 248, 278, 296, 308
John Updike on, 305
Ojukwu, Odumengwu Emeka, 146–7
Oldfield, Sir Maurice, 262, 263–4
Olivier, Laurence, 49–50, 52, 53
O’Neill, Nena and George, 135
O’Neill, Thomas, 98
O’Neill, Tip, 38, 117
OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries): oil-price hike, 47, 57, 185, 248, 278, 305
attack by Carlos, 224, 266
Organisation of African Unity, 149, 230
Orwell, George, 204, 206
Osborne, George, 296
Osborne, John (journalist), 29
Osborne, John (playwright), 224
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 275–6, 282, 283
Oz (magazine), 5, 33, 121–34, 139, 140
Pacheco Areco, Jorge, 64–5
Page, Bruce, 254–5
Paisley, Rev. Ian, 44, 80, 93–4, 139
Pakula, Alan J., 12, 34, 179, 280, 283
Palestine liberation struggle, 58, 70, 77, 86, 88, 89, 91, 92, 93, 233, 224, 305
Parallax View, The, 12, 34, 280, 283, 294, 301
paranoia: of Baader-Meinhof, 10, 87, 92
of Americans, 11, 12, 15, 71, 164, 168–9, 171, 172, 174, 183, 287, 294, 296, 299, 300, 302, 305, 306, 307, 308
in films, 12, 34, 120, 279, 281, 282, 297, 301, 304
in novels, 13–14, 16, 163, 197, 259, 277–8
of Nixon, 29, 34, 35, 36, 39, 98, 103, 105, 110, 111, 119, 156, 164, 293
in plays, 30, 49
at Oz trial, 129
sexual, 136–8
in Equatorial Guinea, 143
of Chairman Mao, 152, 153, 156, 163, 164, 308
of Jiang Qing, 154–5
in Soviet Union, 159–62, 163, 308
and UFOs, 192
of Britons, 201, 309
of Lady Falkender, 205, 215, 216
of Idi Amin, 242
of Harold Wilson, 260, 268
of James Jesus Angleton, 261
as urban lifestyle, 307
in India, 308
in North Korea, 311 see also
Hofstadter, Richard
Patton (film), 20–3, 30, 120
Peace, David, 217, 271
Pearson Group: director foresees tanks in streets, 49
Peel, John, 40
Penrose, Barrie, 268–71
Pentagon Papers: see New York Times
Phillips, David Atlee, 178
Pierce, William, 12
Pincher, Chapman, 221, 267
Pinochet, General Augusto, 256
Pliatzky, Sir Leo, 248
Pol Pot, 11, 144, 238, 292
Pollack, Sydney, 281
Portugal: Carnation Revolution, 226–7
end of African empire, 227–9
Powell, Enoch, 46, 48, 57, 59
Prada Meinhof, 94–5
Prescott, Jake, 76, 78
Preston, Peter, 250
Price, Dolours and Marion, 83–4, 86
Private Eye, 51, 208, 258, 264
Proll, Astrid, 70, 95
Provisional IRA, 10–11, 17, 43, 44, 55, 57, 75, 77, 79–87, 202, 210, 217, 265–6
British Left’s admiration for, 75
Puharich, Andrija, 191–3
Pynchon, Thomas, 12, 119, 131, 264, 277, 278, 298
Queenan, Joe, 246–7
Raban, Jonathan, 294
Randi, James (‘The Amazing’), 190–1
Rawlinson, Sir Peter, 75
Reagan, President Ronald, 19, 30, 140, 289, 300
Red Army (Japan), 77, 87
Red Brigades (Italy), 10, 69, 77, 224
Red Mole, 73–4
Redford, Robert, 280–1, 283
Redgrave, Corin: introduces sister to Healy, 53
Redgrave, Vanessa: succumbs, 53
Reed, Ishmael, 12–13
Reed, John, 52
Reed, Lou, 17
Rees-Mogg, William, 60
René, President France-Albert, 149
Reston, James, 293
Reynolds, Burt: regrettable toupee, 2
Richardson, Elliot, 118
Ridley, Nicholas: talking in riddles, 252, 253
Rio Tinto Zinc: deputy chairman very gloomy, 48
chairman plans coup, 254–5
Rippon, Geoffrey, 62
Robards, Jason, 291
Robertson, Geoffrey, 4, 5, 129, 131, 132
Rockefeller, Vice-President Nelson, 140, 179–80, 182
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The, 32
Roe v. Wade, 135–6
Rogers, William, 21, 36, 37
Rolling Stone (magazine), 11, 183, 191, 197, 280
Rolling Stones, 5, 132, 277
Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 100, 179
Rothschild, Lord, 262, 263
Rowe, Nigel, 272–3
Rupert Bear: sex with granny, 123
size of organ, 126
age of, 127
Sakharov, Andrei, 162
Sale, Kirkpatrick, 290
Sánchez, Ilich Ramírez (‘Carlos the Jackal’):
playboy, 223, 266
celebrity, 224
not a jackal, 225
Sanchez, Manolo, 27, 28
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 88
Scargill, Arthur, 42–3, 45
Schmidt, Chancellor Helmut, 267
Schmitz, John G., 289
Schofield, Michael: no expert on bear’s age, 127
Schorr, Daniel, 97
Schumacher, Erich, 69
Scorsese, Martin, 304
Scott, George C., 20, 22, 24, 33, 120
Scott, Norman, 209, 268, 270
Scott, Peter Hardiman, 254, 255
Seberg, Jean, 173
Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry (Moscow), 159–61
Sevareid, Eric, 251, 252, 253, 254
Sewill, Brendon, 45
Seychelles, 149–50
Shaar Murray, Charles, 122, 123
Shampoo, 32
Shcharansky, Anatoly, 11
Shipway, George, 259, 260
Short, Edward, 209, 221
Shurtleff, Len, 142, 143
Sidey, Hugh, 21
Silcock, Bryan, 189
Silkin, John, 48
Sirica, Judge John, 115, 116
Sirius, extraterrestrials from, 193, 200, 276
send messages to Robert Anton Wilson, 194
and Timothy Leary, 195
and Philip K. Dick, 195–7
60 Minutes, 280
Skolnick, Jennifer, 135
Skyjacked, 304–5
Slade: sing for Gerry Healy, 52
claim everybody’s having fun, 54–5
Smith, Hedrick, 26
smoking: still legal in 1970s, 3, 4, 61, 261
Snezhnevsky, Professor Andrei: invents ‘sluggish schizophrenia’, 159
Soilih, President Ali: out of head on hashish, 148–9
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 158, 162
Sontag, Susan, 307
Sounes, Howard, 2, 3, 17
South Africa, 145, 146, 149, 150, 230, 264, 268, 269, 271
Soviet Union, 18, 19, 32, 86, 100, 101, 104, 106, 144, 155, 175, 187, 228, 260, 278, 308
dissidents, 11, 132, 156–62, 294
Nixon goes to, 163, 289
spies and agents everywhere, 257–9, 260–2, 264, 265, 276, 284, 289
Spectator, 57, 62, 187, 208
Spielberg, Steven, 279, 306
Spreti, Count Karl von: abducted and murdered, 64
Tariq Ali rejoices, 73
Stalin, Josef, 100, 157, 158, 234
Stalinists, 73, 157, 158, 160
Star Wars, 32
State Department, 111, 143
Nixon’s hatred of, 22, 30, 96, 108, 236, 292
State of Siege, 74
Stevenson, Adlai, 34
Stone, I.F., 15
Stone, Dr Joseph, 215–16
Stone, Oliver, 275, 297
Stonehouse, John, 11, 245–6, 247, 250, 271
Stonewall riot, 138–9
Straw, Jack: skulduggery of, 210
sucking: see cunnilingus
Sudan, 22, 232
Sullivan, William C., 183
Sulzberger, Arthur, 100
Sun, 78, 79, 85, 128
Sunday Express, 259
Sunday Telegraph, 81
Sunday Times, 17, 43, 55, 57, 73, 80, 85, 132, 147, 189, 221, 254, 255
Supreme Court (US), 12, 22, 100, 135, 136
Symbionese Liberation Army, 10, 66, 74, 77, 197
Takagi, Fumio, 206
Tate, Sharon, 5, 310
Taxi Driver, 10, 138, 288–9
Taylor, A.J.P., 50
Taylor, Professor John, 190
Thatcher, Margaret, 41, 292, 208, 248, 249, 251, 253, 256, 297
Thatcher, Mark, 147
Thompson, E.P., 309
Thompson, Hunter S., 309
Thorpe, Jeremy, 208–9, 251, 268, 271, 310
Three Days of the Condor, 12, 34, 281, 282, 294
Time (magazine), 70, 72, 128, 171, 185, 188, 280, 292, 308
Times, The, 60, 73, 74, 84, 128, 132, 186, 189, 204, 205,206, 250, 251–2, 309
Trudeau, Pierre, 71
Tupamaros, 64–7, 68, 69, 72, 74, 76, 88, 91, 93, 94
Tynan, Kenneth, 6, 49, 50, 53, 54, 128, 172, 308
UDA (Ulster Defence Association), 44, 80
UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), 192, 193, 284
Uganda, 144, 216, 230–44
Ulasciewicz, Tony, 23, 107, 109
Updike, John, 92, 305
urban guerrillas, 63–95
Uruguay, 63–6, 67, 69, 256, 303
Vidal, Gore, 13
Vietnam war, 7, 11, 20, 26, 30, 38, 76, 99, 100, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 111, 115, 135, 136, 155, 177, 228, 276, 292, 293, 296: US veterans, 119, 136–7, 192, 305
Virgo, Commander Wally, 133
von Däniken, Erich: on alien astronauts, 193–4
Vorilhon, Claude: sportswriter founds religion, 194
Waldron, Sir John, 75
Walker, Martin (‘Sweetie’), 131–2
Walker, Sir Walter: last defence against Communist takeover, 252
Wall Street Journal, 250
Wallace, Governor George: shooting of, 220, 285–9, 299
Wallis, Allen, 26
Warhol, Andy: and Nixon, 97
and Mao, 164–5
and Norman Mailer, 166–7
Warner, Jack, 31, 289
Warren Commission, 15, 179, 273, 275, 282–4
wash, reluctance to: of Lin Biao, 152–53
of Mao, 153
of American radicals, 171
of author, 272
Watchmen, 32
Watergate, 9, 12, 13, 33, 112, 114–19, 163, 172, 178, 219, 237, 264, 278, 280–1, 290, 297
Watney’s Red Barrel, 4
Waugh, Auberon: threatens to expose Thorpe, 208–9
prepares for workers’
revolution, 258
names Wilson as KGB agent, 264
Weather Underground (aka Weathermen), 10, 66, 69
Weaver, Dennis, 279
Welch, Colin: berated by Lady Hartwell, 132
White, Dan, 140
Whitelaw, William, 60, 82
Whitlam, Gough, 5
Widgery, David, 122
Widgery, Lord: whitewashes Bloody Sunday, 44
recoils from porn, 133
Will, George F., 118
Williams, Shirley, 251–2
Wills, Garry, 111
Wilsher, Peter, 57
Wilson, Harold, 1, 10, 207, 210–22, 245, 247, 248, 260, 273, 309
as big fat spider, 9, 269, 270
plans to flee, 207–8
plans to blackmail Thorpe, 209–10
sees invisible powers, 218
breaks into Marcia’s garage, 219
as Hercule Poirot, 247
and spooks, 218, 260–5, 297, 309
mental decline, 266–8, 270, 271
resignation, 267–8
see also Falkender, Baroness
Donoughue, Bernard
Haines, Joe Winter Kills, 301
Wohlforth, Tim, 52
Wolfe, Tom, 88, 277
Woodhams, Barry, 223–4
Woods, Rose Mary, 118
Woodward, Bob, 34, 115, 269, 293, 297, 301
World in Action, 80, 185, 297
Worsthorne, Peregrine, 81
Wozniak, Steve, 18
Wright, Peter, 260–4, 297
X-Files, The, 297
yodelling in the canyon: see cunnilingus
Young, David, 107, 108
Young, Neil, 20, 40, 70
Zhisui Li, 152–3
Zhou Enlai, 21, 151, 155