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[…] war criminal’.11 In that, author Tim Holmes makes the detailed but straightforward case that for his Precisely when they discovered this isn’t clear. In his Spycatcher, Peter Wright dates it to 1956 or 7, after the Soviet invasion of Hungary which led to a big fall in the CPGB’s membership. Professor Christopher Andrew, in […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] own security service, MI5, believed he was a traitor and were conspiring to undermine him. In an or 68 69 26 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 […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sensitive royal correspondence with Hitler and other senior Nazis? In support of this theory, after Blunt had been revealed as a Soviet agent, his MI5 interrogator, Peter Wright, states that was told in 1964 by Michael Adeane, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II: ‘From time to time . . . you may find Blunt […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were encouraged to engage more in the public sphere. Commercial and industrial espionage were legitimised, and the days of secretive but deeply reactionary figures such as Peter Wright and Charles Elwell are long gone. We now live in a world of GCHQ puzzle books, Alan Turing celebrations, and frequent editorials and media interventions by […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Company Commander and finally as Commanding Officer’.19 16 See . 17 See . See para. 5.168 (bottom of page 109) of Lord Maclean’s report following the Billy Wright Inquiry . The Joint Support Group (Northern Ireland) was the renamed replacement for the infamous ‘Force Research Unit’ that ran agents Brian Nelson (aka Agent 6137) […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] as it were, I noticed that the ‘Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world’ at or . 48 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 […]

View from Bridge

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[…] borrowed billions is inflating a dangerous bubble Archegos is not alone – and when the bull market ends those taking a similar approach will also fall BEN WRIGHT 9 April 2021 • 6:00am It is a storyline that could easily have been lifted straight from the TV series Billions, in which Damian Lewis plays […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the security services. They decided to use the Northern Ireland intelligence apparatus to smear Wilson and others. That was 12 years before the former MI5 officer, Peter Wright, made similar allegations. Mr Blake Knox’s depiction of me as a ‘professional fantasist’ is a contemporary example of disinformation, an attempt to discredit my initial and […]

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