[…] its active protagonists, and with the stakes reduced to ideas rather than concrete interests. This was in sharp contrast with the USA, where the impetus of C. Wright Mills’s pioneering study of the network of interests involved in the Cold War (Mills, 1956) was continued by a flourishing group of scholars. There has been […]
[…] the so-called Communist countries and the Communist-controlled World Federation of Trade Unions.(31) The ICFTUE no longer exists.(32) Postscript On January 9 1995, I wrote to John H. Wright, Information and Privacy Co-ordinator of the CIA, asking, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), if the Agency could supply me with copies of any records […]
[…] me to the newsgroups. On 7 May 2002 I received the following unsolicited e-mail purporting to come from a Detective Constable in the Metropolitan Police named Liz Wright: ‘Mr Henderson, the Fyfield you are concerned with is Frances Fyfield, real name Frances Hegarty; check your TV listings for last night. She is a senior […]
[…] which had taken up office in March 1974. This view was expressed at the time by Tony Benn (2) and supported by the later publications of Peter Wright, Paul Foot and Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril.(3) Now the consensus interpretation is that the ‘armies’ were products of a paranoia about ‘reds under the beds’ […]
[…] be, and should be, ubiquitous in its assessment of risk and prevention of subversion and terrorism; that far from being the threat to democracy described by Wallace, Wright, Massiter et al, MI5, as Mrs Rimington put it in, ‘enhances’ democracy.(5) Even if this isn’t rejected out of hand at the outset, we don’t know […]
[…] Would this inner circle have included the monarch and the Lord Chancellor, among the senior members of the Council? Apart from continual hints from the late Peter Wright to the effect that the pre-statutory security and intelligence services owed their allegiance to the Crown and not Parliament, nothing is known about the relationship, the […]
[…] organisations and individuals. It would need to take evidence from Sir Martin Furnival Jones, the former head of MI5, and from MI5 and MI6 officers, including Mr. Wright, if he could be induced to come back to the United Kingdom. It might even have to take evidence from General Sir Walter Walker about civil […]
I: Wilson, Cromer and the City One anniversary which has come and gone this year without much comment is the attempted 1968 ‘coup’ orchestrated by Cecil King against the Labour government of Harold Wilson. The plot was provoked by collapse of confidence in Wilson in the media (led by King’s Daily Mirror), finance, industry and […]
[…] Wallace’s allegations about events in Northern Ireland, Ware concentrated on Wallace’s biography. Although he broadcast nothing on Wallace, he wrote a piece about Wallace and ‘Spycatcher’ Peter Wright for The Listener (6 August 1987). In that he wrote of ‘demythologising Wallace’ and described him as ‘Walter Mitty’.(2) Later that year he played a minor […]
[…] failed because they were too timid and had not been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number […]
