[…] 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 […]
[…] the publication of the Langemann papers in 1982, Franks’ only known connection to the Wilson story was his central role in circulating the typescript of the Pincher/ Wright book Their Trade Is Treachery around Whitehall in 1980. It was Franks, as MI6 Chief, who warned MI5 and MI6 of Pincher’s forthcoming publication. His letter, […]
[…] press secretary, Patricia Hewitt … on the grounds that Tory MPs might hear of the calls and criticise him – as they had done in the Peter Wright affair – for permitting his staff to speak to the country’s ‘enemies’ .” Patricia Hewitt, lest we forget, used to be the head of the National […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a joint MI5/MI6 ‘program to investigate how far the hallucinatory drug lysergic acid diethyalmine (LSD) could be used in interrogation, and extensive trials took place at Porton.'(21) Wright gives no date for this but, from the context it appears to be in the 1950s – the period when Olsen was visiting Porton Down. In […]
[…] 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 […]
