[…] his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. But that’s about all there is. Finally, this book’s dust jacket must be a contender for the prize for most inaccurate jacket ever […]
[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 […]
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[PDF file]: […] as DG 1985; John Jones 26 years (1955/1981); Howard Smith, direct entry as DG 1978; Michael Hanley 24 years (1948/1972); Martin Furnival Jones 22 years (1941/1965); Roger Hollis 18 years (1938/1956); Dick White 17 years (1936/1953); Percy Silitoe, direct entry as DG 1946; David Petrie, direct entry as DG 1941; Oswald Harker 20 years […]
[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 […]
