They hoped to remove the elected prime minister they considered to be an agent of Moscow, and replace him with the Duke of Edinburgh or Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Duke's cousin.
In this case, the plot has been against a Tory government regarded as not quite conservative enough by the contemporary heirs and successors of these conspirators.
What has been revealed is a plot to eventually install Fox as the leader of this country at the head of a government in thrall to foreign powers, in this case the United States and Israel.
If you thought we already had such a government, that goes to show how far-out this coterie really are. Though merely the Defence Secretary, Fox was building his own foreign policy.
And through his struck-off "charity" Atlantic Bridge (who were still operating from Fox's office in parliament as a non-charity until last year, and still a working charity in the US) building an "Atlantacist" economic policy with the aim eventually of withdrawing Britain from the European Union. Its interlocutors in the States were the Gun-Nut, Climate Change Deniers and assorted Looney-Tunes of the far-right Tea Party, who see the likes of Brain of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as their idol.
Fox, indeed, told me that he thought Palin was "hot" and, for a variety of reasons, I think he meant politically though he might have been talking about a post-nuclear strike Palin for all I know. A vast sum of money was sunk into this project, only the tip of this iceberg so far.
Some of the money from a private intelligence company chaired by a former high US securocrat official, Chester Crocker, from a Finnish billionaire lobbyist for Israel, who owns an arms company in the US and whose father founded the Israeli arms industry, and from men from the undergrowth of Britain's Hedge Fund community, went into Atlantic Bridge. The rest went into the funding of Fox's private office when in opposition and into his "friend" Adam Werritty's myriad "not-for-profit" firms. When Fox was shadow health secretary, Werritty was a "health consultant".
When he became defence spokesman for the Tories, Werritty's business metamorphosed into a "defence consultancy".
We are entitled to know just what influence in the Cabinet was purchased.
Was the controversial decision to refuse to back Palestinian statehood, when the vast majority of other countries did so, a casualty of the Fox Conspiracy? What about the decision to change the law of the land so that Israeli officials suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity, like former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, could once again visit London without fear of arrest, as she almost was, after a London judge issued a warrant two years ago? This secret money - hundreds of thousands of pounds - was used to jet Werritty around the world for business, and no doubt, pleasure, in Britain's war minister's shadow.
In the Christine Keeler affair, the then Tory War Minister John Profumo was merely getting his leg over a prostitute.
This minister was getting a leg-up into Downing Street by exposing the country's interests to foreign lobbyists and multi-millionaires.It really doesn't get much more serious than that.
I told you last week that I travelled with Fox throughout Vietnam, an odyssey charted by former Labour minister Chris Mullin in his latest Diaries.
Fox abruptly left Mullin and I in Vietnam and headed off for a few days' rest and recreation, alone (Werritty would have been in short trousers then) in the resort of Phuket.
But what lies beneath? For that we will have to trust honest, free independent investigative journalism.
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