[…] plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his 3 See . notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just completed a gaol sentence for a manslaughter charge which he […]
[PDF file]: […] the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that ‘up to 30’ MI5 officers were involved in or cognisant of the attempts to unseat Wilson. As for Gladio being behind the Wilson […]
[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]
[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]
[PDF file]: […] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]
[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]
[PDF file]: […] cover-up of the Contras/cocaine connection is, like Webb’s 1996 exposé itself, not conclusive – but it’s there. Blunt in Hesse O ne of the puzzles Peter ‘Spycatcher’ Wright said he never solved in the hundreds of hours during which he interrogated unmasked Soviet double-agent Sir Anthony Blunt was the precise nature of Blunt’s mission […]
[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions […]
[PDF file]: Classified Secrecy and the state in modern Britain Christopher Moran Cambridge University Press, 2012, £22.00, hardback M ost of this is a decently written and entertaining account of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage […]
[PDF file]: […] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]
