[…] errors per page.’ (p.284) After the legal problems with his book on the Profumo Affair and the disastrous appearance on the LWT programme on the trial of Hollis, Knightley’s reputation is at an all time low. West’s version of Wynne is to be found in his book The Friends (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988). (See […]
[PDF file]: […] just be a notepaper job. Nonetheless, some of the ‘advisory body’ were people with rather specialised interests. For example, at one point the name of General Leslie Hollis appeared on it. Hollis had been the Secretary of the Chiefs of Staff committee which ‘ . . . considered, with Sir Stewart Menzies, the head […]
[PDF file]: […] been considered.) Wright had been appointed to a committee which investigated the putative Soviet ‘moles’ and he came to believe that the ‘mole’ was MI5 chief Roger Hollis. He did his best to get the system to deal with this, was rebuffed and retired to Australia. There he continued trying to get serious attention […]
[PDF file]: […] an entry in Oswald’s address book about the far right. 1 Oswald wrote: NAT. SEC. DAN BURROS LINCOLN ROCKWELL ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AMERICAN NAZI PARTY (AMER. NATIONAL PARTY) Hollis sec. of Queens N.Y. (NEWSPAPER) NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Frewin cites an appendix in my book Dreamer of the Day showing that Oswald clearly derived his information […]
[PDF file]: […] Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two or three books. Who else is in this group of MI5/ex MI5 who organised […]
[PDF file]: […] Fascism has been used by climate change deniers as well as mainstream commentators like Jenny Diski and Jonathan Meades on the left, and Ross Clark and Geoffrey Hollis on the right, to attack the Green movement. Jonathan Dimbleby is the present head of the Soil Association and he made his feelings about Jenks very […]
[…] by some of the Guardian’s journalists.7 0 But the material is all worthwhile – even the page in which Robin Whittaker presents Chapman Pincher’s case that Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent. I don’t agree with the thesis but it is interesting to meet it again. On the down side, there’s a jokey tone […]
[PDF file]: […] by the FBI shortly after his arrest in November 1963 (styling as original): NAT. SEC. DAN BURROS LINCOLN ROCKWELL ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AMERICAN NAZi PARTY (AMER. NATIONAL PARTY) Hollis sec. oF Queens N.Y. (NEWSPAPER) NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Caulfield writes that ‘the information contained in Oswald’s notation was so obscure that it would have had to […]
[PDF file]: […] was a laughing stock, correctly assumed to be so 11 Script at . thoroughly penetrated that it was virtually a branch of the Security Service. As Roger Hollis told the home secretary in 1959, “we the British Communist Party pretty well buttoned up.’ It was more than mere containment, says Cornwell, who ran agents […]
