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[…] questions have been unanswered for almost 20 years. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The This really is a very good piece indeed. Ketcham’s writing is at . 44 A year after Ketcham, a long article appeared in […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] days in the discussions of the new global elite, the oligarchs, or the 1%, is William Domhoff, the American sociologist who, following in the footsteps of C. Wright Mills, was examining their power forty years ago in books such as the 1971 The Higher Circles. Mr Domhoff, I am happy to report, is still […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: Tittle-tattle Tom Easton Friends of ‘the Friends’ in the North W atching the coverage of the Scottish referendum campaign from south of the Border made me wonder if this is what it must have felt like during the EEC vote in 1975 – the privatelyowned media majority marching in one direction alongside the BBC and […]

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[PDF file]: […] is missing. 3. As are the destabilisation operations against the Labour and Liberal parties and the ‘wet’ Conservatives in the mid 1970s. He refers once to Peter Wright, only to dismiss his claims. The Atlantic semantic29 I am on the e-mail list of the Atlantic Council30 and received notification of a meeting of theirs, […]

The Atlantic Semantic

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[PDF file]: […] US and UK. He remains a believer in Cold War shibboleths such as that the KGB were running the unions in the 1970s. He is what C. Wright Mills would have termed a NATO intellectual, who also wrote for Encounter. Below I offer a specific focus on Brian Crozier’s ‘Shield’ organisation, which included Eden […]

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[…] our responses to your emails. The Illuminati. 6 Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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[PDF file]: […] documentaries is at or . 67 25 68 believed he was a traitor and were conspiring to undermine him. In an increasingly fervid atmosphere in London, Peter Wright and a small group of counter-intelligence officers, under the influence of Angleton, now not only believed their Prime Minister was a Soviet agent but that their […]

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[PDF file]: […] five years and they did blog intermittently during that time52 but there has been no formal announcement saying, ‘Our conclusions are . . . .’. 49 Oliver Wright, ‘Johnson snubs captains of industry’, The Times 4 February 2020. 50 See . or I think that what they are quoting is something I wrote in […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

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[PDF file]: […] of Commons. It only remained that the document should – in some way – be ‘officially’ approved or accepted by Parliament. O’Donnell sent it to Dr Tony Wright MP, the chair of the House of Commons Public Administration Committee, who declined to consider it.10 It was then sent to Sir Alan Beith MP, chair […]

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[…] credibility chart as far as I am concerned. Huh? Among the government files from the 1980s which were released in late December, was one concerning the Peter Wright book Spycatcher. The Guardian reported that on one of these documents prime minister Thatcher wrote in October 1986: ‘I am utterly shattered by the revelations in […]

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