[…] LSE would be a good example. This closes off a lot of debate about the penetration of business interests and usually comes with a dismissal of C. Wright Mills’ work, falling back on a pluralist version of events: what you see is what you get. But we see so little actual decision-making and the […]
[…] one. They tried to suppress this (or was that also marketing bullshit?) — presumably for the handful of pages in which Bristow expresses his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. […]
[…] people working for Soviet intelligence, leads not only to unscholarly work but to nasty witch hunts. What first drew my attention to this trend was when Peter Wright came out with his accusation about Sir Roger Hollis. Chapman Pincher was wheeled out to back up the claim that Hollis had been recruited to Soviet […]
[…] was argued, could be left to the police Special Branch) and too little to domestic subversion.’ This is the exact opposite of the picture given by Peter Wright on p. 359 of Spycatcher, of the 1970s expansion of the counter-subversive F-branch at the expense of counter-espionage K branch. But there are lots of things […]
Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]
[…] 1ST SEC WASHINGTON 1968 1ST SEC FCO, VISITED MALTA, MEMBER OF FLUENCY COMMITTEE ONE OF THE ‘YOUNG TURKS’ NOW RETIRED. HAS WRITTEN FOR ENCOUNTER. SUPPORTER OF PETER WRIGHT AND INFORMANT TO CHAPMAN PINCHER DENNISON, ALISTAIR ALEXANDER GUTHRIE CMG (1941) CBE (33) B 1.12.1881, D 1.1.61 GCHQ 1914 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT 1921 FO GCCS 1939 […]
[…] for Diana after Paris inquiry’, International Herald Tribune 11 September 1997, p.10. Natalie Martin, ‘Diana inquest Coroner frustrated by limited powers’ Press Association 12 October 1997; Stephen Wright, ‘Coroner: inquest on Diana a waste of time’, Daily Mail 13 October 1997, pp.1, 5. The law relating to deaths abroad is based on the judgement […]
[…] discussing the creation of the ‘architecture’ of the global economy by groups such as the elite planners of the 1920s? This is power analysis. This is C. Wright Mills or William Domhoff de nos jours. They trace the antecedents of the modern corporate-dominated world back to three elements in the 1920s: the beginnings of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
