| CONFIDENTIAL DAVID IRVING -- BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION 1. Full Name: David Irving. 2. Date of Birth: 24.3.38. 3. Place of Birth: Park House, Hutton,
Brentwood, Essex. 4. Education: 4.1 Sir Anthony Browne's
School, Brentwood Essex. 4.2 Imperial
College, London. 5. Work Experience: 5.1 1959: Labourer at "August
Thyssen" steelworks, Ruhr, West
Germany.5.2 l959: Clerk-stenographer for US
Strategic Air Command at an airfield
near Madrid, Spain. 5.3 1960: Labourer at present site
of Blackett Laboratory, Imperial
College. 6. Father: 6.1. Father's Name: John James
Cawdell Irving.6.2. Irving's father was a Commander
in the Royal Navy. He served at the
Battle of Jutland (1916), and on the
North Russian convoys of World War Two.
He was the author of many books on the
Royal Navy, including "The Kings
Britannia", Irving claims that his
father was also a polar explorer 7. Mother's Name: Beryl Irene Irving
nee Newington (now deceased). 8. Parents: Divorced when Irving was a
child. 9. Brothers: Irving has four brothers,
all of whom were RAF Officers during World
War Two. 10. Ex-Wife: Pilar Irving, nee Stuyck.
(Divorced in late 1970s/early 1980s). 11. Children: Pilar and Irving had four
children, all girls. One daughter has
suffered from a mental breakdown. 12. Address: Irving is believed to
maintain two homes. These are: 81 Duke St
Mayfair
London W1
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Key West
Florida 33040
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13. Other: He was rejected for National
Service in the RAF on medical grounds
(unknown). ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION: 1. Education: 1.1. At his grammar school, he
was considered to be an exceptionally
talented pupil, a brilliant linguist
and an excellent mathematician.1.2. Gained an ICI Scholarship to
Imperial College, London University and
changed from Arts subjects to
Sciences. 1.3. 1956-57: Preliminary science
year for former Arts Students. 1.4. In his first year he began
writing for the Student Union's
cultural magazine "The Phoenix", and
gained a reputation as an outspoken
personality. 1.5. 1956: Won Sir Arthur Acland
English Essay Prize at Imperial College
, 1.6. 1957: Failed his first year of
degree. 1.7. 1958: Repeated his first year
of degree. 1.8. December 1958: Appointed editor
of "The Phoenix" and published an
editorial entitled "Ignorance is
Bliss", arguing that educational
resources be denied to the
proletariat. 1.9. February 1959: Whilst in
absentia he was removed as Editor. 1.10. At the end of 1958 he had
taken a prolonged leave and was touring
Europe. 1.11. Having worked in Germany and
Spain, he worked as a labourer in
London and re-sat his A-Level CE,
before studying an English Degree at
University College London. He left
after two years and did not complete
the course. 2. Ex-wife: 2.1. Name: Pilar Irving, nee
Stuyck..2.2. Date of Birth: 1938
(approximately) 2.3. Place of Birth: Spain 2.4. Family Origins: Pilar's family
are Spanish, of Belgian origin. The
family emigrated to Spain in early
1800, to manufacture carpets for the
Spanish Royal Family. The family still
run this prosperous business. 2.5. Father: Known to be pro-German
and anti-British. Rumoured to have been
one of Franco's senior Generals. 2.6. They met in the early 1960s
while she was studying English in
London. 2.7. They divorced in approximately
1980. 3. Finances: 3.1. Introduction:Uncorroborated evidence
implies that Irving has been the
recipient of substantial funding
from unknown sources. It has been
repeatedly rumoured that these
sources are Nazis. 3.2. Evidence: 3.2.1. When Irving was in
Germany, supposedly working in the
Ruhr, he found the time to do
extensive research for his first
three books. This task would have
been extremely difficult had he not
received funding, material
assistance, and access to private
archives. A number of researchers
have commented on this, notably
Gitta Sereny.3.2.2. His correspondence with
Dolinsky (see Page 6) points at the
fact he received assistance from at
least 1961. 3.2.3. Irving enjoys an opulent
lifestyle, and has done for many
years. It does not seem that he
could maintain such a standard of
living without source of income
other than his books. (This is
particularly true for his apparent
wealth during the 1970s). 4. Ideology: 4.1. He is a fervent admirer
of Hitler and Nazi Germany.4.2. He has gradually moved further
towards the extreme-Right of the
political spectrum. Originally a
fascist, he now openly mixes with
former Nazis, leading neo-Nazis. 4.3. Anti-Semitism: 4.3.1. Irving has dealings with a
number of Jews in his professional
life, and uses this as an excuse to say
that he is not an anti-Semite. 4.3.2. Irving expressed his
anti-Semitism by hinting at Jewish
conspiracies and by attacking Zionism
and Israel. He is far too clever an
opponent to openly admit to being an
anti-Semite. 4.3.3. Irvings extensive links with
neo-Nazis throughout Europe and North
America can leave no doubt about his
anti-Jewish sentiment.
DAVID IRVING -- HISTORY OF
ACTIVITIES1959 - 1969 1. In February 1959, The London
University magazine, "Sennet", reported
that Irving had been dismissed as editor
of Imperial College's "Phoenix" by the
magazine's Board of Directors. This
followed Irving's having written a series
of articles on ex-students of Imperial
College - the ex-students had all been
Right wing extremists. Irving then
demanded that a Professor be dismissed on
account of his being an atheist. However,
his final transgression regarded the
University's 'Carnival Rag". (See
below). 2. Irving attended a meeting of London
University's Carnival Committee and urged
them to agree to the printing of a
journal, to be entitled, "Carnival Times".
He assured the Committee that he would
raise advertising revenue, and was made
Editor, under the general direction of the
Committee. Unknown to the Committee, he
arranged for a special supplement which
would contain racist cartoons and
Right-wing articles, including "a spirited
defence of South African apartheid; a
bitter attack on America and a glowing
compliment to Hitler's Germany; and a
cartoon deriding Negroes in the university
and allegations that "the national press
is owned by Jews". He also secured adverts
from the South African Government and
Oswald Mosley's paper "Action". 3. The Daily Mail (1.5.59.), stated
that Irving had "pulled a fast one" as
editor of Phoenix. (See above). He told
his interviewer, I belong to no political
party. But you can call me a mild fascist
if you like. I have just come back from
Madrid, I had a fine time. I returned
through Germany and visited Hitler's eyrie
at Berchtesgarden. I regard it as a
shrine". 4. It has been alleged that Irving was
active in the British Union of Fascists,
whilst at college, and that he shared a
speaking platform with Oswald Mosley.
There appears to be no evidence of
this. 5. In 1960/61 Irving had a lengthy
correspondence with C C Aronsfeld of the
Weiner Library. This is detailed on Page
6. 6. On 28.11.63, Manny Carpel, David
Freedman, and Gerry Gable (currently
Editor of 'Searchlight' the anti-Fascist
magazine) were released on bail after
having impersonated GPO engineers in an
attempt to steal "secret documents" from
Irving's home in Crescent Road, Hornsey.
The three were subsequently fined a
nominal sum, for impersonating GPO
engineers - a crime that no longer exists
on the statute book. 7. In a letter to The Times, (20.5.81),
Irving claimed to have had meetings in
August 1964 with the Cabinet Office
concerning the use of material for his
book, "The Mare's Nest". Irving claimed
that he had access to official papers, but
had submitted to vetting over his
including information on ULTRA (World War
2 code breaking machine), and the claim
that Churchill had considered using poison
gas against German towns in July 1944.
Irving claimed that Churchill personally
requested the Cabinet Office to ask him to
remove the reference to poison gas. 8. On 7.7.66., The Times Published
Irving's apology for having quoted
excessive death tolls in his book on
Dresden. He claimed that he now believed
the documents he had used were "falsified,
probably in 1945". He then explained that
the East German authorities had recently
agreed to provide him with "a final
report" the authenticity of which "is
established beyond doubt". The report
listed an expected final death toll of
25,000 with a further 35,000 "missing".
His letter ended, "I have no interest in
promoting or perpetuating false legends,
and I feel it is important that in this
respect the record should be set
straight".
DAVID IRVING --
CORRESPONDENCE WITH C C ARONSFELD OF
THE WIENER LIBRARY 1. On 30.11.60. CC Aronsfeld, Curator
of the Wiener Library, wrote to Irving
about a letter he had written in that
day's Daily Telegraph, concerning the
Allied bombing of Dresden in February
1945. Aronsfeld invited Irving to utilise
the Library's resources. 2. On 26.5.61. Irving wrote to
Aronsfeld and enclosed a translation of a
letter he had received from Studienrat R
Dolinsky, whilst researching the bombing
of Dresden. Dolinsky claimed to have been
a Wehrmacht radio monitor during WWII and
to have heard, in 1944, a "Free Polish'"
radio broadcast from London which
contained news that "the World Jewish
Congress (WJC) had demanded the
liquidation of Dresden as a reprisal for
the crushing of the Warsaw uprising and
the smashing of the Ghetto". Dolinsky
quoted the WJC as saying that "The Sistine
Madonna must be destroyed in return for
the destruction of the Great Torah of
Warsaw", Dolinsky then wrote to Frau
Professor Maria Hasse, of the Technischen
Hochschule (Technical College), Dresden,
who had been a delegate at the WJC and who
could confirm his story. He urged Irving
not to write to her "on account of her
exposed position in the Eastern Zone". 3. Irving said he suspected Dolinsky to
be a deceiving anti-Semite but nonetheless
he could not ignore his allegations which
were made "in a convincing manner". 4. Aronsfeld replied to Irving by
suggesting that he visit the Sikorski
Institute to corroborate three separate
points of evidence which "will have to be
established before conscientious student
can take any notice of them". Aronsfeld
ended by advising Irving that Dolinsky's
letter was "another version of the
Protocols of Zion". 5. On October 2nd, Irving replied to
Aronsfeld and enclosed a copy of another
letter that he had received from Dolinsky.
Irving told Aronsfeld that he had written
a guarded letter to Frau Hasse. She
replied by admitting to have been at the
conference but suggested that Irving use
the official East German history of the
Dresden bombing if he wanted information
on the subject. Irving wrote that "this
last sentence was worded in such a way as
to make me immediately suspicious that it
was inserted merely to mollify any people
opening her correspondence". 6. Irving then wrote again to Masse,
this time enclosing extracts of Dolinsky's
letter. He received no reply. 7. Irving had also written to Dolinsky
and enquired about the WJC and the "Great
Torah". Dolinsky replied to Irving on
29.8.61. and recommended that he contact a
Mr J Margolin of Paris who had a text of a
Rabbi Weismandl's speech which called for
the destruction of Dresden. Dolinsky then
suggested how Irving could write to
Margolin in order to hide his intentions
of exposing those responsible for the
Dresden bombing. Dolinsky urged that
Irving did not reveal that he knew
him. 8. Dolinsky went on to tell Irvings
"you will receive an invitation to visit
Dresden. I have spoken to several people
in the Eastern Zone about this... It will
be guaranteed to you that you can move
freely in Dresden... and people in Dresden
will also be interested in clearing up the
question who had given the order to
destroy Dresden and on who's request... It
was very rash of you to write to Frau
Professor m Hasse... (she) can tell you
nothing... Please do not write to her any
more. She herself asks that you do not
write to her any more...the key... is in
the possession of Herr Margolin in Paris.
If you write to him sufficiently
cautiously, perhaps you will receive this
key". 9. Irving was fascinated by the hints
of Dolinsky's and "acquaintances" and
amazed at how he knew of the letters to
Frau Hasse. He asked Aronsfeld what he
knew of Margolin and Weismandl, and
offered to send him a copy of Dolinsky's
original letter. 10. Aronsfeld's reply to Irving was
rather dismissive. He doubted the worth of
Irving's visits to Dresden and said that
he could probably write "a moderate
Thriller". Aronsfeld said that Margolin
was an Israeli journalist and that Rabbi
Weismandl had been head of the WWII Slovak
Jewish Rescue Committee at Bratislava. The
Rabbi had died in the USA in the late
1950's and Aronsfeld speculated that he
may well have appealed for "effective
strategic bombing". Aronsfeld ended the
letter by declining Irving's offer of
Dolinsky's letter. Assessment of
Correspondence: 1. Dolinsky's letters (attached) would
have interested the most non inquisitive
of people: Irving was fascinated by them.
This may well have been Irving's
introduction to revisionist history in its
"purest" form. Namely, he received
previously unheard of information which
was very difficult to verify - or to
disprove. Even if Irving believed Dolinsky
to be simply ranting, there can be no
doubt that the suggestions will have
excited him and shown him a new and
vibrant approach to the study of
history. 2. If any part of Dolinsky's letter was
true, then certain questions must be
asked: who did Dolinsky know? Did he then
introduce these people to Irving? Was
Irving targetted by Dolinsky as a likely
neo-Nazi sympathiser? etc. If one accepts
that he did know certain unusual facts
then it is very likely that he was merely
a "front" for others, who were in some way
his seniors. 3. According to other historians,
Irving gained access to an unusually large
number of East German files etc. This
raises further speculation regarding
Dolinsky's promise that Irving would "see
everything and speak with everybody". 1970 -- 1980 1. The Daily Express, (22.5.70.),
reported that Irving had sold the rights
of his forthcoming biographies of Hitler
and Field Marshall Erhard Milch for over
£80,000. 2. On 4.3.1971 the Court of Appeal
upheld the award of £40,000 libel
damages to Captain John Broome. Irving had
written in 'The Destruction of Convoy
PQ17" that Broome had deliberately
abandoned the convoy to Nazi U boats. The
award was the highest awarded to date by
an English court. 3. In early 1972, Lord Weidenfeld
informed Irving that he was now unwilling
to publish the forthcoming 'Hitler's
War'. 4. Irving withdrew 'Hitler's War' from
sale in Germany, after accusing his German
publishers, Propyläen, of cutting and
altering his manuscript without
consultation. 5. On 8.6.77 The Guardian newspaper
published an interview with Irving. This
particular interview gives a fine example
of how Irving was trying to undermine the
public's view of WWII as being a battle
against evil in the image of Nazi Germany,
personified by Hitler. He claimed to be a
good friend of Prof Hugh Trevor-Roper, who
thought the manuscript for 'Hitler's War'
to be "magnificent". He alleged that Lord
Weidenfeld had withdrawn his contract
following "pressure from certain groups
and embassies" and pointed to his face to
insinuate that Weidenfeld had "paid
through the nose' to renew the contract
for future books. He hinted to his
interviewer that he could give him some
"good stories, but wouldn't give a
journalist that quote about Jews. "I have
a lot of good friends who are Arabs" he
said". He described Hitler's confidantes (from
whom he gained much of his 'exclusive'
information) as "Ordinary types. The kind
you find shopping in Selfridges". He
admitted trying to "de-demonize" Hitler,
to create "deliberate provocation, to
wrench people away from the Hollywood
image". He agreed Hitler was responsible,
for Germany's anti-Semitic passion, the
SS, and the original concentration camps,
but claimed that when he "realised there
was no evidence that Hitler knew, and I
realised my commercial profits were going
to evaporate. My agent said, for Christ's
sake, invent something" . He claimed that during the writing of
the book, he had asked hundreds of
interviewees what Hitler had said of the
Jews whilst in his bunker. They had
replied, "(none) except sick jokes about
Jews being made into soap". The book
detailed Hitler's mass euthanasia
programme (cancelled following public
disapproval) and revealed that he planned
to liquidate the male population of
Stalingrad (the Germans failed to conquer
the city). Yet, Irving still insisted that
"having removed the appalling crime of
deliberate systematic murder of six
million Jews" Hitler could be viewed "in a
much more objective and clinical way".
When compared to Roosevelt, Truman, and
Churchill, Irving said, I would be hard
put to say which was the most callous.
They're all guilty of what I call
Innocenticide. And in Churchill 's
underground war cabinet room in Bridge
Street there hung a stereoscopic display
of air Photographs of Dresden after the
raids. Hitler didn't glory in the
massacres like that". 6. This interview indicates that Irving
had established his strategy for
rehabilitating Hitler. It rested upon five
pillars, elements of which are contained
in the vast majority of his works: Irvings 'Rehabilitation'
Strategy: 6.1. By limiting Hitler's
culpability for the horrors of the
Holocaust, he could remove Hitler's
image as evil incarnate. By further
alleging that Hitler was actively
opposed to the Holocaust, Irving made
him appear as a positive figure, who
was appalled at the viciousness that
his anti-Semitic politicking had
uncovered. (Hence the importance of
stressing his outrage at Kristallnacht;
the criminal nature of those
responsible for the killings, and how
they tried to conceal the truth from
him, knowing that he would be enraged
by their activities).6.2. Hitler's ignorance of the
Holocaust leads very neatly into
Irving's attempts to portray him as a
mere human being. This is an issue that
Irving pursued with much diligence. The
theory is a simple one - if Hitler is
just another human, then how can he be
the devil? In conjunction with this, he
attempts to portray Hitler as a wartime
leader who's activities were no
different from those of other wartime
leaders . 6.3. There is little point in making
Hitler out to be an 'ordinary' human.
Irving therefore compares him with
other historical 'giants' such as
Napoleon, or Frederick the Great, This
is a subtle and highly effective way of
presenting him, as it confers an aura
of 'greatness'. 6.4. Irving knew that am integral
part of the 'greatness' process was to
explain why highly respected Allied
leaders, such as Churchill, Roosevelt,
and Eisenhower, regarded Hitler as
wholly evil. Naturally, Irving had to
tarnish their reputations so that their
verdicts on Hitler lacked
respectability. Indeed, this approach
then allowed Irving to excuse Hitler's
excesses, by comparing them to alleged
war crimes committed by the Allies, and
presenting Hitler's actions as
retaliations for Allied conduct. A fine
example of this occurs in Hitler's War,
where, having been told of Hitler's
opposition to political assassinations,
the reader is then told that SS General
Karl Wolff blames the acceleration of
the Holocaust (1942) on the
assassination of Heydrich. The
implication is that Churchill, having
ordered the operation, is responsible
for furthering genocide, 6.5. The extension of tarnishing
Churchill is to present him as evil .
(Hence the importance of Dresden, and
Churchill's 'cowardice' during the
Blitz). Hitler now becomes good, and
the perception turns full circle, -- It should be noted that the above
strategy rehabilitates Hitler without
in any way diminishing the horrors of
the Holocaust. At best, it allows for
Irving's opponent's to call him a
Hitler apologist. It does not allow for
Irving to be called an anti-Semite or a
Nazi. 7 "Hitler' War" was published in
Britain on 13.6.77. Irving offered $1,000
to anyone who could provide documentary
evidence of Hitler's having known of the
Holocaust. The issue was hotly debated on
a BBC chat show, featuring Irving, Gerald
Fleming, and R. Waite. 8. On 26.6.77. Irving wrote to the
Sunday Telegraph that he had sought - and
been denied - the advice of the Yivo
Institute for Jewish Research; the Weiner
Library; Lucy Dawidowicz; and the Anti
Defamation League, whilst researching the
Holocaust for Hitler's War. He then
claimed that Prof. Raul Hillberg "has come
to the view that Hitler may not have
known". The following week, CC Aronsfeld
denied that Irving had tried to contact
him. 9. The introduction to the West German
edition of Hitler's War contained the
statement, "Many forgeries are among
records, including The Diary of Anne
Frank". The reference was later removed by
the publishers, Ullstein, who paid
'compensation to Otto Frank. Frank
successfully sued Irving for the
allegation. 10. On 19.9.77 Irving wrote to Walter
Nelson of the Jewish Chronicle, thanking
him for his review of Hitler's War,
repeating his $1,000 challenge, and
declaring "and so, at last, falls one of
the most enduring and extraordinary myths
of the Second World War". He then sent
practically identical copies of the letter
to the Birmingham Post and Private
Eye. 11. On 25.11.77. Irving wrote to
Private Eye that he believed Hitler had no
knowledge of the notorious Wannsee
Conference. He also claimed, "I have
scrutinized every known record of the
conference, and there is not even a hint
that Jews are to be killed". 12. In March 1978, Irving claimed to
have found a document proving that Hitler
had ordered the postponement of the Final
Solution. He further alleged that the US
National Archives officials were unable to
explain why the document had not been
presented at the Nuremberg Trials. The
document was sent to Irving by "a leading
West German historian" who found it in the
Reich Justice ministry file dealing with
"the treatment of the Jews". 13. One of Irving's first German
speeches was probably in May 1978 when he
addressed The AGM of the Gesellschaft fur
Freie Publizistik (GFP), the Society for
the Freedom of Publication. He spoke on
the subject of the 1944 German general's
plot against Hitler. Most of Irving's German talks were
organised by the GFP, an organisation
founded in 1960 and which by 1982 had a
membership of several hundred right wing
intellectuals, led by ex Nazi Werner
Hansler, and which regularly advertised
its functions in the German neo-Nazi
press. 14. Irving reacted angrily to Patrick
Cosgrave's review of his latest book "The
War Path" in the Spectator, (24.6.78.) He
repeated his $1,000 challenge and asserted
that Jews should acknowledge the Holocaust
to be the result of popular European
anti-Semitism. 15. In July 1978 Irving debated "Hitler
Today: Aspects of Research into the Hitler
Problem" with a number of historians,
including Eberhard Jäckel and J B
Stern. His assertion that Hitler knew
nothing of the Holocaust earned him a
front page headline in Die National
Zeitung, (14.7.78) . 16. The German historian, Guido
Knopp, organised a
conference of academics and historians on
the theme, "Hitler Today: a German Trauma"
, in order to remind Germans of Hitler's
evils. The meeting, at Aschaffenburg,
gained nationwide attention, as did
Irving's offer of $1,000. 17. In October 1978 Irving visited the
Frankfurt Book Fair at the behest of GfP.
Again Irving's theories gained him
widespread publicity and an interview with
him was published in Die Welt, in which he
accused German historians of manipulating
history and reacted "with glee" to
suggestions that he had "created a new
school of history". 18. His speaking tour continued as GfP
presented him in Stuttgart and Munich,
where he spoke on Rommel. This theme
continued when the GfP brought him back to
Germany on 19.4.79 at Neustadt an der
Weinstrasse; on 25 May at Coburg, where
the meeting was patronised by the Friends
of Nation Europa; in July 1979 he spoke to
Deutsches Kulturwerk Europäischen
Geistes; and in October he spoke to the
Lübeck branch of GFP. 19. It should be noted that during this
period, Irving was criticised by his
neo-Nazi associates for accepting the
facts of the Holocaust and for distorting
private information given to him by
obscure sources. 20. Following the publication of
Hitler's War, Irving began lecturing on
"Hitler's Path to War", He spoke at GFP
branch meetings in Munich on 23 May 1979,
Brunswick 12 October, Minden 17 October
and Kassel 18 October. 21. Irving lectured to the GFP congress
in Kassel, 31 August - 2 September 1979,
on "Causes and Outbreak of WWII". His
lecture was reprinted in Nation Europa (a
new Nazi Journal), Nov-Dec 1979. DNZ of
14.8,79. reported that Irving was offering
$1,000 for proof that Hitler had intended
to attack Britain. 22. On 27.8.79, Irving wrote to the
International Herald Tribune that he had a
Hitler self portrait which he would never
sell. 23. On 21.9.79, Irving reviewed Max
Hastings' book, "Bomber Command"' , for
"Now" magazine. He claimed to have asked
the wartime head of RAF Bomber Command Air
Vice Marshall Harris, in 1961, why he had
never ordered the bombing of "Auschwitz or
the other Nazi extermination camps". He
claimed that Harris had replied, "If I was
in Auschwitz, I would choose cyanide to
death by an incendiary bomb - any time" .
Irving went on to talk of how the Allied
bombing campaign had "lost the moral
credit gained by standing up to
Hitler". 24. In November 1979, Irving lectured
to German ex-servicemen in Stuttgart. This
prompted the Waffen SS veterans journal,
Der Freiwillige to ask, "When will our own
historians begin to search for the
truth?" 25. On 27.11.79. , it was revealed that
Irving had challenged Anne Frank's father,
Otto, to send her Diary to London so as
that it could be examined by forensic
experts, He withdrew his demands after a
successful lawsuit by Otto Frank forced
him to do so. 26. It was revealed in December 1979
that Irving was renting Churchill's war
time desk diaries from Simon
Ward-Thompson, for £5,000 p.a.
Ward-Thompson is the godson of Commander
'Tommy' Thompson, Churchill's personal
bodyguard, to whom the diaries were
bequeathed. 27. During the late 1970s, Irving
appeared annually on the public list of
'Enemies of the State', compiled by the
"Office for the Protection of the
Constitution of the Federal German
Republic". Sometime in the early 1980s, he
was removed from the list on instruction
of Herr Karstens, West German Secretary of
State. This was a very curious decision, as
Irving had obviously become a far greater
threat by the time of his removal from the
list. 28. On 30.3.79 Irving addressed a
dinner of the Clarendon Club, the dining
club of extreme-rightwingers and
neo-Nazis. The meeting, as with all their
meetings was closely guarded. It took
place at the expensive 'five star' Portman
Hotel im Central London, Irving spoke on
his research work and the conclusion it
had lead him to: history was being
distorted to place the Allies in a more
favourable light, than their activities
warranted; Churchill had been bribed on a
regular basis by East European
Governments; Hitler had not known of the
plan to exterminate the Jews, it was no
use quibbling about the numbers of Jews
who perished in the Holocaust, Irving also
mentioned that he proposed to establish a
new right-wing party. Present at the Dinner were: Tim
Beardson (NF), David Chaldecott(NF), Tony
Webber (NF), Robin Rushton (League of St
George), Mike Griffin (LOSG), Ian Souter
Clarence (Column 88), John Ormowe (Column
88). 
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