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