[…] Would this inner circle have included the monarch and the Lord Chancellor, among the senior members of the Council? Apart from continual hints from the late Peter Wright to the effect that the pre-statutory security and intelligence services owed their allegiance to the Crown and not Parliament, nothing is known about the relationship, the […]
[…] organisations and individuals. It would need to take evidence from Sir Martin Furnival Jones, the former head of MI5, and from MI5 and MI6 officers, including Mr. Wright, if he could be induced to come back to the United Kingdom. It might even have to take evidence from General Sir Walter Walker about civil […]
[…] Wallace’s allegations about events in Northern Ireland, Ware concentrated on Wallace’s biography. Although he broadcast nothing on Wallace, he wrote a piece about Wallace and ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright for The Listener (6 August 1987). In that he wrote of ‘demythologising Wallace’ and described him as ‘Walter Mitty’.(2) Later that year he played a minor […]
I: Wilson, Cromer and the City One anniversary which has come and gone this year without much comment is the attempted 1968 ‘coup’ orchestrated by Cecil King against the Labour government of Harold Wilson. The plot was provoked by collapse of confidence in Wilson in the media (led by King’s Daily Mirror), finance, industry and […]
[…] of Disconnection,’ Whole Earth Review, Summer 1993, pp. 46-47. Washington Times, 10 May 1993, p. A3, citing a recent issue of Boardwatch, ‘a leading BBS magazine.’ Robert Wright, ‘The New Democrat from Cyberspace,’ The New Republic, 24 May 1993, p. 20. Bruce Sterling, ‘A Statement of Principle,’ Science Fiction Eye, June 1992, pp. 14-18. […]
[…] failed because they were too timid and had not been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
