Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] 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 […]

Harold Wilson, the Bank of England and the Cecil King ‘coup’ of May 1968

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

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 […]

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] 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. […]

Kiss me on the apocalypse!

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] 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 […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] 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 […]

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] 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. […]

Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

Book review
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] 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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] 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 […]

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] 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 […]

Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] 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 […]

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