[…] to this complete retraction. Yours sincerely, Paul Wilkinson Professor of International Relations C UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN Professor PAUL WILKINSON. M.A. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS EDWARD WRIGHT BUILDING OLD ABERDEEN AB9 2UB Tel. No. 40241 Ext 5205 S.T.D. Code 0224 21 July 1987 ITN ITN House 48 Wells Street London WIP 4DE Dear […]
[…] Wright’s comments in Spycatcher (p. 45) that MI5 never found a way to surreptitiously open letters sealed in this way. What people may have forgotten is that Wright then continued, ‘In those cases, MI5 took a decision as to whether to open the letter and destroy it, or send it on in an obviously […]
One Boggis-Rolfe or two? Philby: The Hidden Years Morris Riley Janus Publishing, London, 1999, £9.95 pb There are almost as many Philbys as there are readers. His current reputation is as thin as the biographies are fat. Is there room on the shelf for yet another Philby book? Perhaps for a slim one. Amidst legal […]
[…] person of the late Lord Rothschild, who is alleged to have been used by Oldfield, the head of MI6, ‘to hit back at MI5 … and reactivate Wright’ (p. 326). This dubious theory rests upon the uncertain foundation provided by Private Eye, Chapman Pincher and Anthony Cavendish, who had left the service of MI6 […]
[…] is published, posing the big questions: ‘What Went Wrong with America?’ and ‘Where Are We Going?’ Fifty years ago at the height of the Cold War, C. Wright Mills contributed his masterpiece, The Power Elite, that documented the emergence of what would come to be called the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’, and inspired a whole generation […]
Donald Allen During 1987, when some of the London media were pursuing the ‘Wilson plots’ story, Colin Wallace, the only public source on the story at the time, was working with a Channel 4 journalist called Robert Parker. At one point disinformation about Wallace was being fed to Parker, through another journalist, from a former […]
Parish Notices Thanks for material since the last Lobster to, Robin Whittaker (clipper-in-chief), Jane Affleck, Anthony Carew, Harry Irwin, Harlan Girard, Steve Wright and John Booth. Corrections I get surprisingly few anonymous or abusive letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review […]
HP source ‘The plot against Harold Wilson’, the drama-documentary broadcast on BBC 2 on 16 March, was a strange affair. It was really little more than a World in Action half hour from the late 1970s puffed-up, complete with redundant reconstruction of Wilson and Marcia Falkender meeting BBC journalists Penrose and Courtiour (Pencourt). Is the […]
[…] of 1986-89, thousands of column inches, the major cause of our present increased understanding of the British spooks, is evaded with a brief reference to the Peter Wright interview with John Ware in which Wright recanted(1) – as if that’s all there was to it – and somehow he manages not to mention that […]
Never mind Peter Wright, he was obviously lying in Spycatcher anyway. Wallace is a vastly more important source: he doesn’t tell lies, for one thing; and he’s got bits of paper, evidence, some of which concerns his dealings with the late Airey Neave after he was thrown out of government service. At the time […]
