[…] the new top level censorship committee that was set up in London earlier this year.’ Much more on this at http://cryptome.org/markov-file.htm http://cryptome.org/markov-file2.htm MI5 miscellany Shayler backs Peter Wright David Shayler’s piece in The Observer on 14 January, ‘Why I blew the gaff’, illustrated why he has been received with reserve in some circles which […]
[…] by various anonymous individuals. They had completely inadvertently forgotten to apply their own code of practice whereby the identity of clients is checked Hindle, p. 213 Peter Wright mentions him in Spycatcher. He was Wright’s training officer and, according to Wright, had a cavalier attitude towards the relationship between the law and the intelligence […]
[…] pages of documents and correspondence. Looking back on that period it still strikes me as peculiar that the media in this country gave so much attention to Wright (who was 12,000 miles away in Australia, and saying nothing) and so little to Colin. Or is that a tribute to the campaign by the Ministry […]
Marc Seifer Birch Lane Press, 1996. £15.95 (plus £2 postage) from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL. In the last 15-20 years the name Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. […]
[…] ‘Outline history of the Security Service’ we find this: ‘The atmosphere of Cold War allegations also lay behind the highly publicised claims of the former officer Peter Wright that the Service had plotted to undermine the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. A vigorous internal enquiry failed to produce any evidence to substantiate these claims, […]
[…] Mohamed trained al Qaeda in hijacking planes and wrote most of the al Qaeda terrorist manual is confirmed in a new book, The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, who has seen US Government records.(8) Let me say this again: one of al-Qaeda’s top trainers in terrorism and how to hijack airplanes was an operative […]
[…] Party. The Left in the Parliamentary Labour Party had lost interest in the subject, and though Neil Kinnock had shown a flicker of interest in the Peter Wright allegations, he had run for cover when Mrs. Thatcher challenged his patriotism. His successor, John Smith, was a life-long friend of the SIS officer, now Baroness […]
[…] to this complete retraction. Yours sincerely, Paul Wilkinson Professor of International Relations C UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN Professor PAUL WILKINSON. M.A. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EDWARD WRIGHT BUILDING OLD ABERDEEN AB9 2UB Tel. No. 40241 Ext 5205 S.T.D. Code 0224 21 July 1987 ITN ITN House 48 Wells Street London WIP 4DE Dear […]
[…] Wright’s comments in Spycatcher (p. 45) that MI5 never found a way to surreptitiously open letters sealed in this way. What people may have forgotten is that Wright then continued, ‘In those cases, MI5 took a decision as to whether to open the letter and destroy it, or send it on in an obviously […]
[…] The newsagency, Reuters, is so widely assumed to be a routine cover for British intelligence agents, that when one of Reuters’ people in the Lebanon, a Jonathan Wright, went missing (Times 5 September 1984), Reuters’ managing director felt obliged to issue a statement declaring that Reuters “had no association with any government and did […]
