[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] war criminal’.11 In that, author Tim Holmes makes the detailed but straightforward case that for his 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 […]
[…] own security service, MI5, believed he was a traitor and were conspiring to undermine him. In an or 68 69 26 increasingly fervid atmosphere in London, Peter Wright and a small group of counter-intelligence officers, under the influence of Angleton, now not only believed their Prime Minister was a Soviet agent but that their […]
[PDF file]: […] sensitive royal correspondence with Hitler and other senior Nazis? In support of this theory, after Blunt had been revealed as a Soviet agent, his MI5 interrogator, Peter Wright, states that was told in 1964 by Michael Adeane, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II: ‘From time to time . . . you may find Blunt […]
[PDF file]: […] were encouraged to engage more in the public sphere. Commercial and industrial espionage were legitimised, and the days of secretive but deeply reactionary figures such as Peter Wright and Charles Elwell are long gone. We now live in a world of GCHQ puzzle books, Alan Turing celebrations, and frequent editorials and media interventions by […]
