the natwest bank manager and me
Back in about 1985 I was visited by a manager from my bank at the time, Natwest.
He knocked on my door at 10 at night. This was at the time that the tories were particularly anxious about the anti nuclear campaigns, and I was involved in building the blockade of Molesworth US airbase locally.
He claimed he was a part time drug dealer and needed somewhere to stay in MK once a month, and could he stay at my place. i let him in and offered him a cup of tea.
He sat in my kitchen and we talked. I soon realised that he was taking cues from what he saw in my kitchen: the Glastonbury poster with cannabis leaves on it, an anti nuke poster (i can’t rememer which), potted plants and other things. Everything he said was in sympathy with my interests.
he asked about someone called James, who he claimed was another local drug dealer. I had resently used the pseudonym james Baron in writing for a local paper.
He told me details about the SANA (Scientists against nuclear arms) bank account, asking me what they did with the money.
I made it clear in the course of the conversation that I smoked a little dope, but was not interested in other drugs. I had become convinced he was connected to the police, and was attempting to befriend me, gain my confidence.
In short, I went to the bank the next day and told him I was not interested in his request. I went on to close my account with Natwest.
When I later told a local lawyer about my experience he told me he did not want to hear any more, and that I should forget it. I had heard a little about the economic league, a shadowy organisation linking police to various other organisations, and thought his visit might be linked to them.
It’s time to ry and find out a little about this. Twenty years have passed, but I would like to know that there was some substance to my belief. I wish I could remember his name! he was a little older than me (mid 20s to 30?) and had black hair. . . .
This from Socialit worker, as found on the web (Paul Myners, Economic league and Natwest!):
Who's guarding the Guardian?
KEEP A close watch on the Guardian now that there is a new chairman of the Guardian Media Group. He is Paul Myners. Myners has been chairman of the fund managers' Gartmore Investment Management since 1987, is the deputy chairman of Powergen, and is also an executive director of NatWest Bank.
He is also chairman of the Lloyd's of London investment committee. He used to be a journalist on the Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph until 1974, when he left to work for the Rothschild investment bank. When he first started at Gartmore as chief executive the firm was partly owned by British and Commonwealth Holdings.
This company made a fortune for the Cayzer family. Lord Cayzer was the biggest backer of the Tories in Margaret Thatcher's early years. Cayzer was also a director of the Economic League, an organisation that compiled a blacklist of trade union militants and socialists for employers to use.
He knocked on my door at 10 at night. This was at the time that the tories were particularly anxious about the anti nuclear campaigns, and I was involved in building the blockade of Molesworth US airbase locally.
He claimed he was a part time drug dealer and needed somewhere to stay in MK once a month, and could he stay at my place. i let him in and offered him a cup of tea.
He sat in my kitchen and we talked. I soon realised that he was taking cues from what he saw in my kitchen: the Glastonbury poster with cannabis leaves on it, an anti nuke poster (i can’t rememer which), potted plants and other things. Everything he said was in sympathy with my interests.
he asked about someone called James, who he claimed was another local drug dealer. I had resently used the pseudonym james Baron in writing for a local paper.
He told me details about the SANA (Scientists against nuclear arms) bank account, asking me what they did with the money.
I made it clear in the course of the conversation that I smoked a little dope, but was not interested in other drugs. I had become convinced he was connected to the police, and was attempting to befriend me, gain my confidence.
In short, I went to the bank the next day and told him I was not interested in his request. I went on to close my account with Natwest.
When I later told a local lawyer about my experience he told me he did not want to hear any more, and that I should forget it. I had heard a little about the economic league, a shadowy organisation linking police to various other organisations, and thought his visit might be linked to them.
It’s time to ry and find out a little about this. Twenty years have passed, but I would like to know that there was some substance to my belief. I wish I could remember his name! he was a little older than me (mid 20s to 30?) and had black hair. . . .
This from Socialit worker, as found on the web (Paul Myners, Economic league and Natwest!):
Who's guarding the Guardian?
KEEP A close watch on the Guardian now that there is a new chairman of the Guardian Media Group. He is Paul Myners. Myners has been chairman of the fund managers' Gartmore Investment Management since 1987, is the deputy chairman of Powergen, and is also an executive director of NatWest Bank.
He is also chairman of the Lloyd's of London investment committee. He used to be a journalist on the Tory-supporting Daily Telegraph until 1974, when he left to work for the Rothschild investment bank. When he first started at Gartmore as chief executive the firm was partly owned by British and Commonwealth Holdings.
This company made a fortune for the Cayzer family. Lord Cayzer was the biggest backer of the Tories in Margaret Thatcher's early years. Cayzer was also a director of the Economic League, an organisation that compiled a blacklist of trade union militants and socialists for employers to use.
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