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History’s Greatest Fraud?

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Abstract

According to his Oswestry School records, George Donald King McCormick (born 9 December 1911) was the son of a journalist, T. B. McCormick; his family home was a house called Fern Bank, in Warren Road, Rhyl, a seaside holiday town in Flintshire, north Wales.1 According to his Observer obituary, he followed his father into journalism. He later claimed that as a teenager and as a young man he had interviewed an impressive array of important people; decades later, these unsourced verbatim interviews allowed him to reveal The Identity of Jack the Ripper (1970a), to solve the mystery of the disappearance and presumed murder of Victor Grayson, MP (1970b) and to nail Arthur Cecil Pigou as a Soviet spy (1979).

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Leeson, R. (2014). History’s Greatest Fraud?. In: Hayek: A Collaborative Biography. Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137452429_2

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