[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
