[…] Mirror (2 September) for whom we had produced a ‘ragbag of spelling and factual errors…a regurgitation of the wilder fantasies of Private Eye, Auberon Waugh, Spycatcher, Peter Wright, Colin Wallace and Tony Benn.’ Joe Haines first attacked us in 1986 when Tribune printed an abbreviated version of Lobster 11. Since then he as rubbished […]
[…] the policy seems to have been set by the Army. Black propaganda and covert action began once it became clear that internment had failed. 1971 saw Oliver Wright replaced by Howard Smith (later head of MI5) as intelligence co-ordinator, and the establishment of a Psyops Unit at the Lisburn Headquarters. The then head of […]
[…] the Angleton-Goltisyn relationship and subsequent mole-hunts. (The latter first appears on p. 49.) Crudely summarised, the book shows that for 20 years Angleton and his fans (Peter Wright, for example) believed complete crap for which they had not a shred of evidence — and were not challenged by the CIA’s senior management. This latter […]
[…] that Failed (Hamish Hamilton/London, 1950) was a collection of six essays edited by Labour MP Richard Crossman, three by ‘the initiates’ (Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and Richard Wright) and three by ‘worshippers from afar’ (Andre Gide, Louis Fischer, and Stephen Spender) on their disillusioned experiences with communism and the communist movement. While there was […]
[…] 1 on page 28 of Lobster 35 I referred to Labour MP Tony Lloyd as a ‘moderniser’. My apologies to Mr Lloyd: I confused him with Tony Wright. Donations Thanks to Carol Smith for a donation of £200. The fact that the money was otherwise intended for the Labour Party makes it the sweeter. […]
[…] managing director Pettigrew and director Lang also both on the NZFP board with Papps. Papps also responsible for the railway electrification program with big contracts for Cory Wright Salmon whose directors include I.L. McKay — also on the board of NZFP. Late 1983: AMEX (SOCAL) gives Gulf Oil a share in the Martha Hill […]
[…] January the Telegraph ran the story again, this time headlined ‘As Soviet special forces dig in at the perimeter fence’. (By this time Duncan Campbell and Claudia Wright had destroyed the story in the New Statesman .) Undaunted, in that Telegraph piece the author, ‘expert’ on the British left, Blake Baker, used the ‘Spetsnaz […]
[…] the war. On the revelations in the late 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed a couple of the people who took part in the training of stay-behind groups […]
[…] during the past week by a person well-known in the intelligence world but who wishes to remain anonymous.’ This would appear to be a reference to Peter Wright who was the major source for Their Trade is Treachery – and for the Ellis story. The published evidence for Ellis’ alleged spying is remarkably thin. […]
[…] Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. Arthur Martin (Obituary, Guardian 2 February 1996). One of MI5’s ‘mole hunters’, ally of Peter Wright Christopher Mayhew The long obituary in the Daily Telegraph 9 January 1997 swiftly and inaccurately glossed over the work of IRD with which he was associated. […]
