[…] let it happen to get the US into the war; he tells us that the Cold War was created and sustained by the United States; quoting C. Wright Mills, he tells us that the US is run by a ‘power elite’; he tells us that the Clintons were persecuted by a right-wing conspiracy funded […]
[…] who knows the full story of ‘counter-espionage’ in our time and is prepared to spill the beans, whether from anti-socialist motives or simple old-fashioned patriotism.” Did Peter Wright read this? * * * Here is another MI5 document leaked to Patrick Marnham. MI5 blamed Wilson for selling 55 Rolls Royce engines to the USSR […]
[…] all of whom have broken their ‘duty of confidentiality’, or whatever the exact form of words it was that the Thatcher government came up with against Peter Wright. In the last chapter Bower reveals – confirms what some had suspected, or heard whispered – that White had been among those former officers who had […]
[…] Lyalin, Soviet defector whose information led to the famous expulsion of 105 Soviet spies from London. See Richard Norton-Taylor’s obituary in the Guardian 28 February 1995. Peter Wright, of Spycatcher fame. Scott Newton reports that Teletext, on Independent Television, devoted eight pages to him, and said he had been suffering from diabetes, heart trouble […]
[…] the former Prime Minister and/or his close advisors were enemy agents. Routledge does try to cover the 1974-77 period, ‘private armies’, Neave’s contacts with Colin Wallace, Peter Wright and all, but doesn’t do it very well or thoroughly enough. Either it was too complicated to handle properly in the time he had or Routledge […]
[…] Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us that everyone going in and out of the Embassy was photographed by MI5? So where does this leave the story? ……….. Amusing to see […]
[…] given the task of recreating the Congress’s Danish office. A more cultural agenda was set up, involving visits such as the lecture tour by American author Richard Wright in 1957. But efforts in Scandinavia were always hampered by an inability to break out of ‘preaching to the converted’ and by a great deal of […]
[…] 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. […]
