Cowboy Coups
Phillip Knightley, 10 October 1991
Smear! Wilson and the Secret State
by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay.
Fourth Estate, 502 pp., £20, August 1991,9781872180687 Show More
by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay.
Fourth Estate, 502 pp., £20, August 1991,
“... In the summer of 1975 I was invited by a man I knew had contacts in MI5 to have lunch at the Special Forces Club in Knightsbridge. He wanted me to meet ‘someone from the office’ who had a story which might interest the Sunday Times, where I was then working. There was another guest, an aristocratic young man from the City whose role appeared to be that of prompting the MI5 officer – for that is what I took the man from ‘the office’ to be – when he hesitated over a real or pretended indiscretion ... ”