The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] authors’ party at the home of Martin and Judy Shepard, publishers of the Permanent Press, which had published my secessionist book, Proposition 14. The novelist and play wright John Sherry, who was probably Peter Matthiessen’s closest friend and who had published Maggie’s Farm with Permanent Press, came over to me. I knew Sherry well. […]

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Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] January the Telegraph ran the story again, this time headlined ‘As Soviet special forces dig in at the perimeter fence’. (By this time Duncan Campbell and Claudia Wright had destroyed the story in the New Statesman .) Undaunted, in that Telegraph piece the author, ‘expert’ on the British left, Blake Baker, used the ‘Spetsnaz […]

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New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] the war. On the revelations in the late 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed a couple of the people who took part in the training of stay-behind groups […]

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In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] during the past week by a person well-known in the intelligence world but who wishes to remain anonymous.’ This would appear to be a reference to Peter Wright who was the major source for Their Trade is Treachery – and for the Ellis story. The published evidence for Ellis’ alleged spying is remarkably thin. […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. Arthur Martin (Obituary, Guardian 2 February 1996). One of MI5’s ‘mole hunters’, ally of Peter Wright Christopher Mayhew The long obituary in the Daily Telegraph 9 January 1997 swiftly and inaccurately glossed over the work of IRD with which he was associated. […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] recent biography. The previous year Tynan had produced a television documentary, We Dissent, intended to ‘ the notion of American conformity’. Contributors included J. K. Galbraith, C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, and – most guaranteed to upset the American establishment – Alger Hiss. Tynan was also a signatory to the ‘Fair Play For Cuba’ […]

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Enduring Freedom

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] is nothing but a classic example of the power of marketing. It might also be understood as the intensification of a long-present sociological trend, identified by C Wright Mills in the late 1960s, for a ‘power elite’ to emerge in the now normal passage from government to consultancy to corporation and back again.’ But […]

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Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] only a skim across a very interesting episode which, given the allegation that Goldsmith attended the meeting between the G. K.Young-Anthony Cavendish ‘action group’, UNISON, and Peter Wright, may have some bearing on the ‘Wilson plots’. If there was a connection between the campaigns against both Wilson and Willy Brandt, as some believe, was […]

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From Bevan to Blair: 50 years reporting from the political front line

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] again – “an East European Republic”.’ (p. 168) The comments of Heron are really rather significant coming from someone of his status and as early as late 1973. But apart from those quotes all we get is a sentence of mine from Smear! and a reference to Peter Wright. Notes 1 < http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politics obituaries/story/0,1441,563492,00.html >

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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] let it happen to get the US into the war; he tells us that the Cold War was created and sustained by the United States; quoting C. Wright Mills, he tells us that the US is run by a ‘power elite’; he tells us that the Clintons were persecuted by a right-wing conspiracy funded […]

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