[…] Forces on Operation Jedburgh in Brittany, later with SOE in the Far East. A chartered accountant, he died 3 April 1990. (Independent 25 April 1990) F. Chalmers- Wright: worked for both the Political Warfare Executive and SOE in Bucharest, France, Poland and Spain. In the 50s and 60s a respected economic adviser in the […]
[…] 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 victim of a ‘perfect crime’. Ayshea Buksh, ‘Top writer’s verdict on crash that killed Di.’, Daily Star, 1 November 2003. Written by some time radical play wright Howard Brenton, the episode later revealed that MI5 had set up a committee to plan for ‘worst case scenarios, and inadvertently predicted Princess Diana’s death perfectly. […]
[…] Mail on Sunday had harassed his family during what became the break-up of his latest marriage, MacShane earned a vigorous response from Mail on Sunday editor Peter Wright who wrote to deny the MP’s charges. Ominously for the former NUJ president, Wright began: ‘Denis MacShane might be better qualified to pontificate on the Press […]
[…] is additional information. A further list of corrections will appear in a future issue. (WIA) Material taken from the documentary ‘The Spy Who Never Was’ about Peter Wright on World in Action ITV 16 July 1984. Not all the names supplied by Wright were mentioned or published. I should have mentioned in the Lobster […]
[…] in 1974-6, in the process getting quite close to the various psy-ops operations which were then going on. Nearly twenty years later, with hindsight and the Wallace/ Wright material from the 1980s, Freeman has chosen to ditch all that. In the introduction (p. 8) he describes reading The Pencourt File. ‘It defied the conventions […]
[…] particularly nasty organisation. It also welcomed the National Front’s ‘political soldiers’ when they set up shop in Belfast; and Bingham served as election agent to George Sea wright, a fascist and sectarian bigot who had even managed to get himself expelled from Paisley’s DUP. Seawright had come from Glasgow, where he’d been a member […]
[…] Belfast UDA against Gary McMichael’s leadership. At this time, the UVF and sections of the UDA did want to professionalise their operations against IRA members while Billy Wright of the Portadown UVF and C Company in Belfast wanted to kill Catholic civilians thereby destabilising the British government’s covert talks with the IRA.() McDonald […]
[…] issue, 0/88, has come our way, though a second issue is said to have appeared. (A free sample copy of issue 0/88 might be had from Nick Wright, 34 Woodnock Road, London SW16 6TZ.) Last 1 heard he had some left. Send an A4 addressed envelope with 40p worth of stamps on it.) The […]
[…] so we didn’t have any choice. I find this quite disturbing.’ Mr Hepworth-Lloyd has contacted the police over the suspected theft of the voting cards.(4) Resident Frederick Wright is 73 and of sound mind; he ‘nominated’ someone called Jonathan Ellwood. I asked Mr Wright if he knew Mr Ellwood. The answer was an immediate […]
