Clockwork Orange (plot) Clockwork Orange (plot) Clockwork Orange is the name of the secret British security services project which was alleged to have involved a right-wing smear campaign against British politicians from 1974 to 1975. The black propaganda led Prime Minister Harold Wilson to fear that the security services were preparing a "coup d'état". The operation takes its name from "A Clockwork Orange", a 1971 Stanley Kubrick film based on an Anthony Burgess novel of the same name. The project was undertaken by members of the British intelligence services and the British Army press office in Northern Ireland, whose job also included routine
A Clockwork Orange (novel) be artistic". He claimed that the violent content of the novel "nauseated" him. In 1985, Burgess published "Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence" and while discussing "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in his biography, Burgess compared that novel's notoriety with "A Clockwork Orange": "We all suffer from the popular desire to make the known notorious. The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a "jeu d'esprit" knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw