[…] is additional information. A further list of corrections will appear in a future issue. (WIA) Material taken from the documentary ‘The Spy Who Never Was’ about Peter Wright on World in Action ITV 16 July 1984. Not all the names supplied by Wright were mentioned or published. I should have mentioned in the Lobster […]
[…] in 1974-6, in the process getting quite close to the various psy-ops operations which were then going on. Nearly twenty years later, with hindsight and the Wallace/ Wright material from the 1980s, Freeman has chosen to ditch all that. In the introduction (p. 8) he describes reading The Pencourt File. ‘It defied the conventions […]
[…] Belfast UDA against Gary McMichael’s leadership. At this time, the UVF and sections of the UDA did want to professionalise their operations against IRA members while Billy Wright of the Portadown UVF and C Company in Belfast wanted to kill Catholic civilians thereby destabilising the British government’s covert talks with the IRA.() McDonald […]
[…] so we didn’t have any choice. I find this quite disturbing.’ Mr Hepworth-Lloyd has contacted the police over the suspected theft of the voting cards.(4) Resident Frederick Wright is 73 and of sound mind; he ‘nominated’ someone called Jonathan Ellwood. I asked Mr Wright if he knew Mr Ellwood. The answer was an immediate […]
[…] issue, 0/88, has come our way, though a second issue is said to have appeared. (A free sample copy of issue 0/88 might be had from Nick Wright, 34 Woodnock Road, London SW16 6TZ.) Last 1 heard he had some left. Send an A4 addressed envelope with 40p worth of stamps on it.) The […]
[…] 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 […]
