Classified Communication 1949
This paragraph from a report filed by Colonel Bob Wake, head of the Commonwealth Investigation Service, Queensland, was submitted on the 4th of January 1949. It discussed aspects of a target organisation, The Association.
A Scottish Officer, made his appearance in Australia a few months prior to this report, October or November 1948. He was closely aligned to a UK extreme right-wing leader, Oswald Mosley.
THE CAPTAIN
The man's name was Captain Archbald Maule Ramsay, the Member of Parliament for Peebles in Scotland, he was also Mosley's right hand man. In WW1, Ramsay had been a Captain in the Coldstream Guards and was seriously wounded in action in France. You can read more about Ramsay here..There can be little doubt that in 1948 Ramsay was in Australia on political business and was meeting with extreme elements of The Association based in Queensland and NSW.
THE ASSOCIATION
To understand more about the relationship between Mosely and The Association, you would need to become familiar with the history of The Association in Australia. Suffice to say that in the early 1930s, the predecessor to The Association, The Old Guard, was itself an extreme right-wing organization and Bob Wake rightly held fears that it was all happening again in 1948/49.
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THE INTELLIGENCE WAR
The Association. The Association was fervently anti-communist and sometimes that situation turned to physical or 'strong-arm' tactics as described in the full Volume the link for which appears below. Ramsay may have arrived to help put The Association on a war footing.
It is known that The Association had infiltrated the Communist Party of Australia and that, similarly, the CPA had infiltrated The Association. They were effectively at war with each other, not quite open warfare, more an intelligence/espionage war.
The CPA. My position as stated in earlier posts is that the Somerton Man was one of the casualties of this war, I believe he was assassinated and that the circumstances of his death were such that they matched very closely the Modus Operandi of the Russian Intelligence services. I qualified that a little in that whilst they may have facilitated and organised the death, the actual killing may have been carried out by a local contingent.
In the attached document you will read that, much like The Association, the CPA was well organised and had trained groups ready to travel anywhere in Australia or overseas to carry out espionage attacks. Interestingly, they also had trained nurses on staff so to speak.
We know from reading the linked and other documents that The Association had been appearing more and more on the CIS radar since January 1948, the pace had picked up significantly by November but, suddenly, in early December 1948 everything slowed down.
There is no reference yet found in the CIS files that mentions any unusual activity on 30th November/1st December 1948.
THE SOMERTON MAN CONNECTION
What bearing could this possibly have on the Somerton Man case?
I repeat, I believe that the Somerton Man was assassinated and that the circumstances of his death were such that they matched very closely the Modus Operandi of the Russian Intelligence services. I qualified that a little in that whilst they may have facilitated and organised the death, the actual killing may have been carried out by a local contingent. He was in effect a casualty in the war between The Association and the CPA.
You will be able to read and analyse the communications traffic to an extent within the download. There are many more documents amounting to many thousands of pages, yet to be read, examined and filtered, they will be made available for download. on this and another site.
If anyone prefers to do their own research, please let me know and I will provide the CSV files that contain the many links involved.