[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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]: […] either the same plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his 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 […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state * Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote […]
[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. […]
