Radio Free Kabul

The institution handling Bethell's Radio Free Kabul, Coutts Bankers, is one of the most sensitive establishments in the United Kingdom. Set up in 1 697 , it serves as the private bank for many of Britain's oldest (and dirtiest) families. It not only handles the Queen's finances, but its board is closely related to the Royal Family through Michael Albermarle Bowes-Lyon, cousin to the Queen Mother, the former Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. The family of Soviet appeaser Lord Carrington is also heavily represented in the bank, since National Provincial , into which the Smith family (Carrington) bank merged earlier in the century , bought up Coutts some years ago. A Carrington cousin, John Eric Lindsay Smith, sits on the Coutts board. The rest of Bethell's associates at Radio Free Kabul are also interesting. This collection of presumed "staunch anticommunists," like Bethell himself, includes Ray Whitney, a British intelligence operative who for years ran the "disinformation department," the Information Research Department of the pro-Soviet British Foreign Office , and Winston Churchill III, grandson of the World War II leader and son of Pamela Churchill Harriman, now married to Averell Harriman. Churchill himself banks at Coutts and handled the initial arrangements to establish Radio Free Kabul's account there . Also on the board is Lord Chalfont, a former Labourite who switched benches some · years back and who has since made quite a name as an anti-communist, as well as Lady Morrison, wife of the Fabian Socialist Herbert Morrison, the head of the Foreign Office when his employees Burgess and Maclean defected to the Soviet Union in 1951.

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