[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]
[…] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]
[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions […]
[PDF file]: Classified Secrecy and the state in modern Britain Christopher Moran Cambridge University Press, 2012, £22.00, hardback M ost of this is a decently written and entertaining account of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage […]
[PDF file]: […] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]
[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary […]
[…] Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]
[PDF file]: […] at least part of the time searching for the heavyweight figure who would lead Britain out of its ‘crisis’ (only to come up with Lord Mountbatten). Peter Wright claimed in Spycatcher that King was one of the MI5’s agents. Which means what? King had a controller, a case-officer? Or merely that King chatted to […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture Dr. T. P. Wilkinson Consider C. Wright Mills, probably the first American scholar to bother tracking the elites in the US and to theorise about decision-making outside the formal legitimising rituals of elections etc. His 1956 book the Power […]
[…] the Soviet Union ran the 20 Details at . In Lobster 81 at or . 21 Precisely when they discovered this isn’t clear. In his Spycatcher, Peter Wright dates it to 1956 or 7, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary which led to a big fall in the CPGB’s membership. Professor Christopher Andrew, in […]
