The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Kincora Ed Moloney’s The Broken Elbow site alerted me to the fact that the Irish journalist, Chris Moore,1 has written a book about Kincora: Kincora: Britain’s Shame – Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] questions have been unanswered for almost 20 years. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The This really is a very good piece indeed. Ketcham’s writing is at . 44 A year after Ketcham, a long article appeared in […]
[PDF file]: […] days in the discussions of the new global elite, the oligarchs, or the 1%, is William Domhoff, the American sociologist who, following in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, was examining their power forty years ago in books such as the 1971 The Higher Circles. Mr Domhoff, I am happy to report, is still […]
[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Friends of ‘the Friends’ in the North W atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and […]
[PDF file]: […] is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic29 I am on the e-mail list of the Atlantic Council30 and received notification of a meeting of theirs, […]
[PDF file]: […] US and UK. He remains a believer in Cold War shibboleths such as that the KGB were running the unions in the 1970s. He is what C. Wright Mills would have termed a NATO intellectual, who also wrote for Encounter. Below I offer a specific focus on Brian Crozier’s ‘Shield’ organisation, which included Eden […]
[…] our responses to your emails. The Illuminati. 6 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]: […] one of the results of its labours is a collection of essays, Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference: Case Studies from the Athena Project (Terrorism) edited by David Wright. You might think the EU would want the information widely available, posted on a website somewhere, with free access. Au contraire. This was published in late […]
[PDF file]: […] documentaries is at or . 67 25 68 believed he was a traitor and were conspiring to undermine him. In an 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 […]
