[…] pages — private armies, rumours of coups and Heathrow manoeuvres, are all missing. And so on. There is a chapter on the ‘Wilson plots’ material — the Wright, Wallace story. There is a choice here. Either: it is splendid that an important, main-line political biographer like Pimlott includes such a chapter. Or: though Pimlott […]
[…] connected to a loyalist feud. Edgar (29) was a leading figure in the Woodvale Defence Association which was founded by McKeague. He was a friend of Michael Wright, also dead. (See Lobster 3) Lt. Alan Gingles, ex UDR, who was blown up by a bomb he was planting in Mozambique in 1982, had been […]
[…] Angleton in fomenting right-wing discontent with the Wilson governments points to a CIA connection with the plots to destabilise the 1964-70 and 1974-79 Labour administrations (see Peter Wright, Spycatcher: the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, […]
[…] the exiled MI5 whistle-blower, David Shayler, has added his tuppenyworth to the tabloid calls to ‘string ‘er up’, prompting the suspicion that he is more like Peter Wright (a bitter-and-twisted reactionary criticising MI5 from the right) than a principled whistle-blower such as Cathy Massiter. In truth, Letty Norwood did not give Stalin the bomb […]
[…] Castro’s Cuba. No answers, but certainly more to investigate. Our own ‘mole’ hunt in Britain, spurred on by the recent efforts of ex-chief molehunter for MI5, Peter Wright, has recently produced a new piece in the jigsaw of Oswald in Mexico City. In 1963 James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter intelligence branch, following […]
[…] Force and Shankill butchers would not be matched until the demise of the Combined Loyalist Military Command (in the early 1990s) led to the rise of Billy Wright, Johnny Adair and open fascists of that ilk.(25) With the demise of Sunningdale and scrapping of the Special Powers Act, indigenously generated repressive strategies in Northern […]
[…] that Lobster is simply too small to be worth Searchlight‘s attention, but I suspect the real reason lies elsewhere. Throughout the 1986-88 period Colin Wallace and Peter Wright provided evidence of ‘MI5 plots’. On closer examination, however, as Steve Dorril and I tried to elaborate in our book Smear!, the picture of the mid […]
[…] one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who replaced Philip Whitehead, whose connections with intelligence in Ireland go back to the days of Oliver Wright and Howard Smith in the early seventies. Andrew went to Kings College public school, Oxford, and then to the War Office in 1952. After that he […]
[…] began briefing journalists. The pro-Angleton leaks led to the various books produced by the Angleton-influenced faction in the UK, notably those written by Chapman Pincher and Peter Wright, and oddities such as Edward Epstein’s Oswald-as-KGB Legend. The anti-Angleton leaks led to a number of books about Angleton – in this country Tom Mangold’s Cold […]
[…] of large-scale contract engineering work throughout the world. Ian Fraser is a director of BOC. Kindersley (see above) is a director of Wilkinson, as is S. H. Wright of Lazards. Lord Netherthorpe of Lazards is deputy chairman of Dalgety; Lt. Col. C.P. Dawney and J.A. Turner of Lazards are former directors. Dalgety is a […]
