Michael Randle was born on c 1934 and is an English peace campaigner and researcher known for his involvement in nonviolent direct action in Britain and for his role in helping the Soviet spy George Blake escape from a British prison.
14 Facts About Michael Randle
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Michael Randle became active in the peace movement since registering as a conscientious objector to military service in 1951.
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Michael Randle was a member of the Aldermaston March committee which organised the first Aldermaston March against British nuclear weapons at Easter 1958.
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Michael Randle was chairman of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War from 1958 to 1961, secretary of the Committee of 100 from 1960 to 1961 and a council and executive member of War Resisters' International from 1960 to 1988.
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Michael Randle's children were sitting on the seat above Blake's hiding place to put off any customs officers who might look into the van.
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Pottle and Michael Randle subsequently published a book admitting their involvement, titled The Blake Escape.
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Michael Randle passed over the submission of the defendants that though the threat to Blake's well-being was not imminent it would inevitably have occurred unless they had seized the opportunity to help free him before prison security was tightened.
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Michael Randle later told an interviewer that "there are some circumstances in which it is right to break the letter of the law, a point acknowledged by the legal defence of necessity".
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Michael Randle has a long history of anti-violence, having registered as a conscientious objector to military service in 1951 and joining Operation Gandhi in 1952.
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Michael Randle has contributed articles and reviews to Peace News, New Society, The Guardian and other newspapers and journals.
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Michael Randle is the author of several books including The Blake Escape: How we Freed George Blake - and Why and Alternatives in European Security.
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Michael Randle remains an honorary visiting research fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University.
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In March 2003, Michael Randle made an extended appearance on the television discussion programme After Dark, alongside Lord Hannay, Alice Nutter, Ruth Wedgwood, Ken O'Keefe and others.
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Michael Randle served as the minutes secretary and bulletin editor of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support from 1992 to 2009.