[…] 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, […]
[…] the new top level censorship committee that was set up in London earlier this year.’ Much more on this at http://cryptome.org/markov-file.htm http://cryptome.org/markov-file2.htm MI5 miscellany Shayler backs Peter Wright David Shayler’s piece in The Observer on 14 January, ‘Why I blew the gaff’, illustrated why he has been received with reserve in some circles which […]
[…] press secretary, Patricia Hewitt … on the grounds that Tory MPs might hear of the calls and criticise him – as they had done in the Peter Wright affair – for permitting his staff to speak to the country’s ‘enemies’ .” Patricia Hewitt, lest we forget, used to be the head of the National […]
[…] by various anonymous individuals. They had completely inadvertently forgotten to apply their own code of practice whereby the identity of clients is checked Hindle, p 213 Peter Wright mentions him in Spycatcher. He was Wright’s training officer and, according to Wright, had a cavalier attitude towards the relationship between the law and the intelligence […]
[…] pages of documents and correspondence. Looking back on that period it still strikes me as peculiar that the media in this country gave so much attention to Wright (who was 12,000 miles away in Australia, and saying nothing) and so little to Colin. Or is that a tribute to the campaign by the Ministry […]
Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. […]
[…] Wright’s comments in Spycatcher (p. 45) that MI5 never found a way to surreptitiously open letters sealed in this way. What people may have forgotten is that Wright then continued, ‘In those cases, MI5 took a decision as to whether to open the letter and destroy it, or send it on in an obviously […]
[…] The newsagency, Reuters, is so widely assumed to be a routine cover for British intelligence agents, that when one of Reuters’ people in the Lebanon, a Jonathan Wright, went missing (Times 5 September 1984), Reuters’ managing director felt obliged to issue a statement declaring that Reuters “had no association with any government and did […]
[…] a joint MI5/MI6 ‘program to investigate how far the hallucinatory drug lysergic acid diethyalmine (LSD) could be used in interrogation, and extensive trials took place at Porton.'(21) Wright gives no date for this but, from the context it appears to be in the 1950s – the period when Olsen was visiting Porton Down. In […]
