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Sir John Hunt was Secretary of the Cabinet from 1973 to 1979.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4352659.ece Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Secretary of the Cabinet], The Times, 18 July 2008.</ref> | Sir John Hunt was Secretary of the Cabinet from 1973 to 1979.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4352659.ece Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Secretary of the Cabinet], The Times, 18 July 2008.</ref> | ||
− | Lord Hunt told a | + | Lord Hunt told a Channel 4 documentary in 1996: |
− | ::There is no doubt at all, that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5, people who should not have been there in the first place, a lot of them like [[Peter Wright]] who were right-wing, malicious and had serious personal grudges, gave vent to these and spread damaging, malicious stories about that Labour government.<ref>Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain's Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p.159.</ref> | + | ::There is no doubt at all, that a few, a very few, malcontents in [[MI5]], people who should not have been there in the first place, a lot of them like [[Peter Wright]] who were right-wing, malicious and had serious personal grudges, gave vent to these and spread damaging, malicious stories about that Labour government.<ref>Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain's Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p.159.</ref> |
==External Resources== | ==External Resources== |
Latest revision as of 20:43, 23 April 2011
Sir John Hunt was Secretary of the Cabinet from 1973 to 1979.[1]
Lord Hunt told a Channel 4 documentary in 1996:
- There is no doubt at all, that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5, people who should not have been there in the first place, a lot of them like Peter Wright who were right-wing, malicious and had serious personal grudges, gave vent to these and spread damaging, malicious stories about that Labour government.[2]
External Resources
- Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Secretary of the Cabinet, The Times, 18 July 2008.
- Michael Quinlan, Lord Hunt of Tanworth, The Guardian, 18 July 2008.
- Lord Hunt of Tanworth, The Telegraph, 18 July 2008.
- Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Cabinet Secretary who appeared in the High Court to contest publication of the Crossman diaries, Independent, 21 July 2008.
Notes
- ↑ Lord Hunt of Tanworth: Secretary of the Cabinet, The Times, 18 July 2008.
- ↑ Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, Britain's Secret Propaganda War 1948-1977, Sutton Publishing, 1998, p.159.