Gable’s Fables 3: Brits “Gunrunning to American Soldiers”

As time went on, Gable’s stories became more and more wild and delusional. In 1981, for example, a World in Action “expose,” based on Gable’s wild ramblings, claimed that a miniscule group, the “British Democratic Party” was involved in “gunrunning to American soldiers” based in England !

Gable had once again manufactured the story by using one of his agent provocateurs – this time, Ray Hill, a former real neo-Nazi who had emigrated to South Africa and had then fled that country after running up unpaid credit card debt on a “friend’s” card.

Hill had, on the orders of Gable, ingratiated himself with the BDP. Once again, Gable used the tactic which has become his hallmark: place a Searchlight agent in an organisation or group, get that agent to suggest some outlandish plan to that group, and then run an “expose” on what was originally Gable’s idea in the first place.

True to form, it was Hill who suggested to Anthony Reed-Herbert, the leader of the BDP, that they operate a "pincer strategy" one offering a "respectable 'clean' political party" and the other "the capacity for 'underground activities'", (Andrew Bell/Ray Hill, The Other Face of Terror, 1988, p98).

The gun-runners were alleged to be supplying arms to American soldiers based in England – possibly the most unlikely recipients for weaponry in the entire UK , but that little fact did not stop Gable’s fantasies of “gunrunners.”

The facts of that case were that one antique Luger pistol was involved as the “weapons cache,” and, given Hill's blatant role as agent provocateur, even that might well be open to question.