[…] began briefing journalists. The pro-Angleton leaks led to the various books produced by the Angleton-influenced faction in the UK, notably those written by Chapman Pincher and Peter Wright, and oddities such as Edward Epstein’s Oswald-as-KGB Legend. The anti-Angleton leaks led to a number of books about Angleton – in this country Tom Mangold’s Cold […]
[…] Angleton in fomenting right-wing discontent with the Wilson governments points to a CIA connection with the plots to destabilise the 1964-70 and 1974-79 Labour administrations (see Peter Wright, Spycatcher: the Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, […]
[…] one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who replaced Philip Whitehead, whose connections with intelligence in Ireland go back to the days of Oliver Wright and Howard Smith in the early seventies. Andrew went to Kings College public school, Oxford, and then to the War Office in 1952. After that he […]
[…] an indefatigable researcher, who has done his time in the Public Records office; but, without wishing to be unkind, there is a flavour here of what C. Wright Mills once called ‘abstracted empiricism’: a penchant for accuracy at the expense of meaning. This is not entirely fair, of course, because he does try to […]
[…] that Lobster is simply too small to be worth Searchlight‘s attention, but I suspect the real reason lies elsewhere. Throughout the 1986-88 period Colin Wallace and Peter Wright provided evidence of ‘MI5 plots’. On closer examination, however, as Steve Dorril and I tried to elaborate in our book Smear!, the picture of the mid […]
[…] RC-135 (Cobra Ball) spy planes. The alleged rendezvous occurred as the airliner approached the strategically important Kamchatka Peninsula. The White House ignored the accusation. However, Speaker Jim Wright, leaving a White House briefing, let it slip that there had indeed been an RC-135 near KAL 007’s flight path. The Administration’s image of certainty of […]
[…] of large-scale contract engineering work throughout the world. Ian Fraser is a director of BOC. Kindersley (see above) is a director of Wilkinson, as is S. H. Wright of Lazards. Lord Netherthorpe of Lazards is deputy chairman of Dalgety; Lt. Col. C.P. Dawney and J.A. Turner of Lazards are former directors. Dalgety is a […]
[…] as a pseudo-gang. It was directed from ‘Six’ local HQ in the Culloden Hotel at Craigavad, beside MI6 administrative HQ in Laneside House on Station Road. Michael Wright a young UDA man associated with McKeague, was killed in a mystery booby-trap explosion. UDA issued statement saying he was murdered by the Security Forces ‘dirty […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
