[…] leading up to the Rhodesia-Zimbabwe deal between the Patriotic Front and the Thatcher government in 1979. Predictably, Dickie fails to tell the reader that, according to Peter Wright, the British government’s negotiating position was facilitated more than somewhat by MI5 bugging all the rooms used by the various African delegations. Apostasy! In Lobster 24, […]
[…] to it, indeed) a collection of what may be adequately described as ‘nasty bastards’? People who behave with as much regard for law and democracy as Peter Wright, but who chose coarser methods?’ The trouble with forming such a close relationship with his subject as Dorril has done is that some of its uglier […]
[…] him for a killing he didn’t do and have run a massive disinformation exercise against him. With each new step in the state’s suppression of the Peter Wright allegations, Wallace’s importance increases. Notes Mooney’s first little action was to issue an unattributable brief saying that Loyalist organisations were looking for Reds under their beds. […]
[…] one. They tried to suppress this (or was that also marketing bullshit?) — presumably for the handful of pages in which Bristow expresses his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. […]
[…] shown” again). This, I presume, is a reference to the “5th man” story which surfaced in 1986 during the early fall-out and disinformation coming from the Peter Wright case in Australia and must be related, based upon Mr Heath’s appointment of Rothschild to head of the Central Policy Review Staff (the “think tank”). Heath […]
[…] LSE would be a good example. This closes off a lot of debate about the penetration of business interests and usually comes with a dismissal of C. Wright Mills’ work, falling back on a pluralist version of events: what you see is what you get. But we see so little actual decision-making and the […]
[…] was argued, could be left to the police Special Branch) and too little to domestic subversion.’ This is the exact opposite of the picture given by Peter Wright on p. 359 of Spycatcher, of the 1970s expansion of the counter-subversive F-branch at the expense of counter-espionage K branch. But there are lots of things […]
[…] people working for Soviet intelligence, leads not only to unscholarly work but to nasty witch hunts. What first drew my attention to this trend was when Peter Wright came out with his accusation about Sir Roger Hollis. Chapman Pincher was wheeled out to back up the claim that Hollis had been recruited to Soviet […]
Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]
[…] 1ST SEC WASHINGTON 1968 1ST SEC FCO, VISITED MALTA, MEMBER OF FLUENCY COMMITTEE ONE OF THE ‘YOUNG TURKS’ NOW RETIRED. HAS WRITTEN FOR ENCOUNTER. SUPPORTER OF PETER WRIGHT AND INFORMANT TO CHAPMAN PINCHER DENNISON, ALISTAIR ALEXANDER GUTHRIE CMG (1941) CBE (33) B 1.12.1881, D 1.1.61 GCHQ 1914 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE DEPT 1921 FO GCCS 1939 […]
