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The truth about dirty tricks from Harold Wilson to Margaret

01 January 1991

The truth about dirty tricks from Harold Wilson to Margaret
Thatcher
libdoc October=1991

Author(s) Pincher Chapman
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson 1991

MI5 Labour/Party MI6 Northern/Ireland Spycatcher Clockwork/Orange

Contents include:
"Dirty tricks - actions carried out surreptitiously to inflict
damage - are the lifeblood of the secrets world and have a far
greater impact on the lives of ordinary people than commonly
imagined. From the MI5 plot against Wilson to the Iraqi oil-pipe
super-gun, `dirty tricks' have recently dominated the headlines;
and in the exciting new era of East-West relations they are a
growth industry. The Wilson years were a piping period for dirty
tricks, both real and imagined, but the Thatcher reign is also
having its share: since Gorbachev came to power the KGB's dirty
tricks department has never been so active. In his long career
Chapman Pincher has been associated with many dirty tricks and
confesses to deliberate involvement in some of them. His latest
book is an up-to-date study of the activities of master dirty
tricksters from Wilson's `Rasputin', through Peter Wright and Sir
Maurice Oldfield to Gorbachev's army of `techno-bandits', now
using every underhand ruse to secure the Western technology which
the Kremlin so desperately needs. It ranges through
assassinations, character assassinations, defectors who never
were, blackmail through sex, betrayals and deceptions of
staggering ingenuity. With access to documents and new
information Chapman Pincher is able reveal the real truth about
the Wallace affair, the plot against Lord Rothschild, and a score
of other mysteries..." (Publishers text)