Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue

[…] “MI5”. Pincher says it was a group of MI5 and ex MI5 personnel. David Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]

Knightley

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[…] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ which climaxed with ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright. In his affidavit to the court in Australia where the British government was trying to suppress his book Wright wrote, ‘The present state of Britain is […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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 […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Company Commander and finally as Commanding Officer’.19 16 See . 17 See . See para. 5.168 (bottom of page 109) of Lord Maclean’s report following the Billy Wright Inquiry . The Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) was the renamed replacement for the infamous ‘Force Research Unit’ that ran agents Brian Nelson (aka Agent 6137) […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] as it were, I noticed that the ‘Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world’ at or . 48 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]

View from Bridge

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[…] borrowed billions is inflating a dangerous bubble Archegos is not alone – and when the bull market ends those taking a similar approach will also fall BEN WRIGHT 9 April 2021 • 6:00am It is a storyline that could easily have been lifted straight from the TV series Billions, in which Damian Lewis plays […]

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