The Wilson Plot [Hardcover]

David Leigh (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 271 pages
• Publisher: Pantheon Books; First American Edition (stated) edition (December 31, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394572416
• ISBN-13: 978-0394572413
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,230,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Sixties' Cold War London Intelligence Expose / MI5, July 28, 2011

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David Shanet Clark "The Professor" (Atlanta Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wilson Plot (Hardcover)

David Leigh, long time intelligence journalist for the Observer, presents us with a densely scathing and opinionated cold war expose of the Harold Wilson Affair. As in the Beatles shout out "AH AH MR WILSON .. AH AH MR HEATH .. Taxman" Set in the 1960s of the PROFUMO and Golitsin efforts espionage environment, this text will be candy for John LeCarre fans or Peter Wright's "Spycatcher" readers. Leigh is strongly disposed to attack Peter Wright and puts the activities of Liddell and Hollis and the old MI-5 group under a microscope. A little wordy and choppy, there is a GREAT deal of background about PHILBY BLUNT MACLEAN BURGESS before the details of the Harold Wilson affair (HW was PM of Britain in 1964/5 and again c. 1975 when he was sacked by a palace coup d'etat) Harvey Klehr's SPIES has a similar detail and grain; intelligence history is a branch of diplomatic history and this is a detailed exam of the classic era Cambridge 'Circus' in full tory farce.