[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
