[…] was used in the notes shows that they were written in the early 1970s. Slowly, it all begins to pull together. The interesting thing about the Peter Wright case is that in his defence in court he said that he was a loyal servant of Britain, and that he sought only to expose corruption […]
[…] IRA; it was aimed at mainland Labour politicians – which just happens to dovetail with similar allegations, raised in Parliament from an entirely independent source, namely Peter Wright.” This really is extraordinary. In the first place, Wallace talked to Steve Dorril, and gave him documents about Clockwork Orange Two, when Dorril visited him in […]
James Rusbridger I. B. Tauris, London 1991, £8.95 James Rusbridger is Peter Wright’s cousin oddly enough, and occasionally assisted MI6 in the 1950s and 60s, an experience which has left him a cheerful cynic. He canters briskly and amusingly over the field of spook foul-ups in the post-war period to ‘show the pointlessness of so […]
[…] safes. Please don’t think that I am trying to glamourise my book Inside BOSS by associating it with Spycatcher. There is no comparison whatever. Compared with Peter Wright I was very small fish as a spy. He really was big time, Don’t believe for one moment those smears that he was a nobody. He […]
[…] however. To them it was all just noises off stage, rantings from the left. This changed a little in 1986/87 after the series of revelations from Peter Wright, Colin Wallace and Cathy Massiter which confirmed all but the most paranoid lefty’s view of the security agencies’ institutional hostility to the Labour Party and Labour […]
Paul Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been […]
Steve Wright has been a significant figure in British state research, at the difficult, technical end, for about as long as this magazine has existed. In a very interesting essay, ‘The Echelon Trail: An Illegal Vision’,(1) Wright gives us both an autobiographical sketch and a guide through some of the developments of this field […]
ed. ‘Nigel West’ Faber and Faber, London, 1993 The title isn’t to be taken seriously. This is 610 pages of short extracts from some of the books written by British MI5 and MI6 personnel, with short biographical sections by ‘West’. Some of this is quite interesting — lots of it was new to me — […]
[…] Mohamed trained al Qaeda in hijacking planes and wrote most of the al Qaeda terrorist manual is confirmed in a new book, The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, who has seen US Government records.(8) Let me say this again: one of al-Qaeda’s top trainers in terrorism and how to hijack airplanes was an operative […]
[…] the publication of the Langemann papers in 1982, Franks’ only known connection to the Wilson story was his central role in circulating the typescript of the Pincher/ Wright book Their Trade Is Treachery around Whitehall in 1980. It was Franks, as MI6 Chief, who warned MI5 and MI6 of Pincher’s forthcoming publication. His letter, […]
