[…] 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. […]
[…] recent biography. The previous year Tynan had produced a television documentary, We Dissent, intended to ‘ the notion of American conformity’. Contributors included J. K. Galbraith, C. Wright Mills, Allen Ginsberg, and most guaranteed to upset the American establishment Alger Hiss. Tynan was also a signatory to the ‘Fair Play For Cuba’ […]
[…] is nothing but a classic example of the power of marketing. It might also be understood as the intensification of a long-present sociological trend, identified by C Wright Mills in the late 1960s, for a ‘power elite’ to emerge in the now normal passage from government to consultancy to corporation and back again.’ But […]
[…] only a skim across a very interesting episode which, given the allegation that Goldsmith attended the meeting between the G. K.Young-Anthony Cavendish ‘action group’, UNISON, and Peter Wright, may have some bearing on the ‘Wilson plots’. If there was a connection between the campaigns against both Wilson and Willy Brandt, as some believe, was […]
[…] again – “an East European Republic”.’ (p. 168) The comments of Heron are really rather significant coming from someone of his status and as early as late 1973. But apart from those quotes all we get is a sentence of mine from Smear! and a reference to Peter Wright. Notes 1 < http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politics obituaries/story/0,1441,563492,00.html >
[…] highly suggestible individuals, and claimed to have detected radiation from the mind. His work, Radiating Brain, was translated in 1965 by the Foreign Technology Division of the Wright Patterson Air Force in the United States. The Dutch physician, W. A. G. van Everdingen made further progress during 1938-43. He observed that microwave irradiation affected […]
[…] 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 […]
