[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] I barely noticed Wright’s Soviet-spies-in-MI5 story which has been so thoroughly analysed, retold and updated by Tate. And what a story it is. To recap briefly: Peter Wright was an MI5 officer who believed that within MI5 there was a Soviet ‘mole’ in a very senior position. He believed this because MI5’s ops against […]
[PDF file]: […] first from Colin Wallace, a member of the British Army’s psychological warfare unit in Northern Ireland, in whose narrative the ‘bad guys’ were MI5, and from Peter Wright, who had been an MI5 officer, those of us who began researching this period in 1986 and after began by looking for MI5 operations.264 In fact […]
[PDF file]: […] Wright’s story in Spycatcher that MI5 knew about the covert Soviet funding of the CPGB in the 1950s and neither exposed it nor tried to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew and he does not refer to this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had […]
[…] Wright’s story in Spycatcher that MI5 knew about the covert Soviet funding of the CPGB in the 1950s and neither exposed it nor tried to stop it. Wright is rubbished repeatedly by Andrew and he does not refer to this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had […]
[PDF file]: […] powerful, but they are 2 See Arthur Mitzman, The Iron Cage: An Historical Interpretation of Max Weber, (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1970). In Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, From Max Weber (London: Routledge, 1946) pp. 41-42, after World War I, Weber basically called Ludendorff a useless fat cunt who should be hung. 3 […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: INTERVIEW EUU Words Graeme Bowman Photographs Chris Blatt Behindology: the study of hard political realities obscured by layers of hype and spin. Britain’s leading professor on the subject, irascible Scot Robin Ramsay, publishes conspiracy theory magazine Lobster from his front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO […]
[PDF file]: […] than meets the eye. According to Falber, in 1958, the year the clandestine payments started, ‘MI5 were planning to break into house at Christmas’.4 According to Peter Wright, MI5 wanted the records of the Soviet transactions and thought Falber was keeping them. But the plan to burgle his house was foiled. Here is Wright’s […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]
[…] plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his 3 See . notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just completed a gaol sentence for a manslaughter charge which he […]
