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In the 1980's Canon Kenyon Wright enlisted the Catholic Church in Scotland into the Protestant ecumenical organisation. Through absorbing the 'political' arm of the Church into his organisation, he was able to spearhead the setting up of a Scottish Parliament, which is now poised both to break Scotland away from the UK and to abolish its nuclear deterrent. That deterrent at present stops a foreign nation – such as Russia – from attacking the West. Wright was born in Paisley in 1932, and after attending Glasgow University, trained as a Methodist minister and worked in India. As a result of the union of the Methodist and Anglican churches there, he gained Anglican credentials. In 1975 he moved to Coventry Anglican Cathedral where he organised an anti-nuclear Conference of the Soviet front organisation 'Christian Peace Conference' - CPC . In 1981 he moved to Scotland as General Secretary of Scottish Churches Council (SCC), where he led a campaign for the Trident nuclear submarines to be withdrawn from Scottish waters, along with support for left-wing revolutions abroad. In the following I reveal how Wright, exploited 'ecumenism' as the basis for the launch of the Scottish Parliament, while a member of the above Soviet 'front'.
The best way to establish Wright's links with the KGB is to consider the nature and scope of his activities. As stated his links with the Soviet front CPC were revealed at Coventry Cathedral, where he set up a 'Peace' Conference under its auspices in 19791. His seniority in the organisation became apparent when he was entrusted, with another CPC member, with drafting the 'message' of a 'peace' conference in Moscow in 1982 2 - and in 1984 whe he took joined CPC's top leaders in a delegation to Sweden. Finland and Germany - promoting support for Soviet policy3. Then In 1986 he attended another Peace conference at Moscow where he had talks with President Gorbachev.4 But the main pointer to his links with Soviet intelligence was his appointment in 1990 as secretary of the CPC front, an appointment which by implicatiion came from Moscow. 5
This raises the question of how CPC was controlled. Ultimate control was by the Soviet Communist Party's 'International Department,'6 but its day-to-day running was in the hands of one Alexei S. Bujevsky, a KGB member who held office in the Russian Orthodox Church's 'Department of External Church Relations' in Moscow.7, 8 He sat on the ruling committee of CPC, directing its activities.9 The 'British Regional Group' of CPC had been launched in 1964 by Canon Paul Oestreicher of the British Council of Churches (BCC)10 - and publicity material from the above Group has revealed that Canon Wright was a Vice-President. 11 Evidence linking Canon Oestreicher with Bujevsky was published in 2004 12, the implication being that others in the British Regional Group deferred to Bujevsky, including Canon Wright. No wonder that in an article on CPC's activities in the influential journal 'Salisbury Review', the author, after describing Wright's use of the ecumenical organisation to promote support for revolutionary causes in Central America; nuclear disarmament, and local strikes, reached this conclusion: 'The evidence from the Scottish Churches House is of a highly complex and intricately planned operation, executed by exponents of materialism within the churches, but controlled and initiated by the International Department of the Soviet Communist Party.' 13
The following reveals how an ecumenical plan, the 'Inter-Church Process', was used by Wright in order to launch the Scottish Parliament: which then became the forerunner for similar assembles throughout the UK. The ICP capitalised on a wish among Christians, for steps towards unity. It had its origins in 1981, when Pope John Paul II visited Britain. During that visit, he was urged by the leaders of the BCC and SCC, to allow the Catholic Church to join their organisations.14 In response he invited delegates of those organisations to Rome 'to continue the discussions' 15, and the outcome became evident in 1984 in the announcement of an 'Inter-Church Process' starting in 1986 16, which led by 1990 to the entry of the Catholic Church into these organisations. 17 Later the same Pope commended the Scots Bishops for taking part in 'Action of Churches in Scotland' - the new ecumenical body set up by Wright. 18 Significantly Wright's Scottish Episcopal superior, leading Bishop Alistair Haggart, had led the delegation to Rome in 1983 which had ensured approval for the Catholic Church to participate in the Inter-Church Process (ICP).19
The ICP comprised three phases, starting in Lent 1986 with the setting up of inter-denominational groups to study a booklet entitled 'What on Earth is the Church For?' Thousands in the UK met to consider its contents, and to fill in a questionnaire. Many of the options reflected ideas in the booklet – such as 'should churches be more involved in politics?' and 'Should they churches be promoting unity''20 When the 'results' were published, the BCC claimed they gave support for their own proposals. But in the above article in Salisbury Review, Roger Watson showed how these results were flawed: 'no information was given on how the 'sample' was drawn off - a fact which is of crucial importance since without a statistically approved technique ensuring a random sample, the results were open to abuse from parties with vested interests. True to form, nothing in the way of evidence is presented which contradicts the basic hypothesis that liberation and ecumenism are the things most urgently required by 'the people'. Indeed the objective throughout has been to project the need for a church which fulfils the needs of 'the people' rather than the will of Almighty God' 21. Coming out as they did just before Conferences in England and Scotland, these 'results' acted as a lever for Catholic participation in the Protestant ecumenical movement and so at the Conference of the ICP at Swanwick in September 1987, Cardinal Hume speaking for the entire hierarchy, committed the Church to entering the BCC/SCC.22
At this critical moment, Wright forged ahead with a political plan. He had already turned SCC into a platform for a variety of left-wing causes, as revealed in the minutes of the 'Community, Justice and Peace Committee' 23 Now they were to act as the basis of a campaign for the setting up of a Scottish Parliament. The first signs of this were evident at the ICP Conference held immediately after the above in Swanwick – at St Andrews in September 1987, when he arranged a 'session on the general Scottish situation' inviting 'representatives of other areas of Scottish life - academic, Trades-Unionist, politicians, etc' .24
Wright's next move was to attach himself to the 'Campaign for a Scottish Assembly' in 1988. This later issued a 'Claim of Right for Scotland' - and by 1989 it had set up a 'constitutional convention' to prepare the setting up of a Scottish Parliament - with Wright as Chair of the Executive and thus its effective leader. He then resigned his ecumenical role to focus on politics.. but was then faced with (accurate) criticism that he was the 'prime-mover' of events and sought to rebut these in the Church of Scotland's 'Life and Work' of May 1989 by claiming that delegates from both the Kirk and Catholic Church on a Scottish Churches Council committee responsible for its political work (i.e. the 'Community, Justice and Peace' committee) had initiated this policy... But since the record shows that he controlled the SCC, and the CJP committee whose members deferred to him, his argument was disingenuous.
Later with Labour support, the Scottish Parliament was set up in 1999. Wright was then active in the campaign for a Welsh Assembly, and similar campaigns throughout England. If there was one 'constant' in his activities throughout these years, it was his opposition to the Trident nuclear submarines in the Clyde. Had he not in 1982, attended a Conference in Moscow in which he 'chaired the committee' that drafted a message which called on 'the religious people of the world to condemn the use of nuclear weapons of any kind whatsoever'. Later, as General Secretary of SCC he organised a petition to 'freeze' the development of nuclear arms.
Later in 1999, two women from a base called 'Peace House' attacked a Trident supply ship causing extensive damage, and the resultant publicity helped raise the profile of the anti-Trident campaign. They belonged to an organisation called 'Ploughshares' which had links with Scottish Churches House, home of SCC and its 'successor' ACTS. The link is through 'The Iona Community', a socialist and ecumenical group. Member of Iona are always well-represented on SCC and ACTS. In 1987 a 'resource centre' called 'Peace House' was set up at Greenloaning near Dunblane. It was funded both by Iona and the Quakers and run by Ellen Moxley and Helen Steven, both members of Iona – while Steven herself, significantly, represented the Quakers on SCC. In 1995, 'Peace House' became the base for promoting direct action – and when 'Ploughshares' was launched in 1998, Moxley joined it and led the act of sabotage in 1999. The links between 'Peace House' and Scottish Churches House are emphasised by the fact that Wright has retained an influence at Dunblane as 'Consultant on Justice and Peace' to ACTS and the fact that when 'Peace House' closed down, its resources were moved to a new 'Centre for Non-violence' – at Scottish Churches House.
At trial, those involved were acquitted when the Sherriff (wrongly) accepted their plea that 'the deployment of Trident is illegal'. Her judgment was purportedly based upon a ruling of the International Court of Justice, even though in fact the ruling exempted the existence of weapons such as Trident for defence purposes. but this did not deter the nationalist press from presenting the case as a moral victory for the women, giving yet more publicity to 'their' cause. As a consequence, the Scottish Parliament is now at the receiving end (as intended all along by Canon Wright) of 'calls' demanding the abolition of Trident.
Rendering Britain defenceless
Meanwhile Wright had set up the successor to SCC, ACTS, with Catholic participation, thus ensuring 'cross-denominational' impact on matters such as nuclear disarmament. Those leading the churches involved, such as Cardinal Winning and the Kirk Moderator, were all opposed to Trident. Thus in a new report headed 'Churches attack nuclear camp' (Catholic Herald 29.11.91) we read 'In a significant policy shift, Action of Churches Together (ACTS) - the major inter-church body north of the border - has given tacit endorsement of Scottish CND's latest initiative in their long-standing campaign against Trident.' At the same time a 'cross-party CND group' was formed in the Scottish Parliament, to demand the withdrawal of Trident. In 2000 it presented a 8000-strong petition to the Scottish Parliament, which read:- 'we the people of Scotland, do hereby make it known that we will no longer tolerate nuclear weaponry on our land or in our waters. In now expressing our clear will, we mandate all our political representatives to rid Scotland of Trident' Presenting it was Canon Wright (Scottish CND report 22.5.2001).
Since the issue of 'defence' had been 'reserved' the Westminster, a new form of leverage was now deployed, concerns about Trident's 'safety'. As stated in the Catholic paper 'the Universe' on 8.8.99 'The (Scottish) Parliament could also look closely at the environmental hazards posed by nuclear weapons facilities, and take steps to restrict these hazards. At the very least this would make life difficult for those responsible for Trident.. But perhaps the most significant step the Parliament could take would also be the easiest. What if, with its electoral mandate, it decided to demand that Trident be removed from Scotland? Refusal... could lead to independence, with the SNP committed to a phased but complete withdrawal of Trident from the Clyde'. 25
A decade on, with the SNP about to organise a referendum on independence, that scenario seems ever-increasingly obvious. Wright has evidently inspired this 'mandate' for the abolition of Trident, both before and after the launch of - his parliament. A specific component of this being a body he set up to link every social organisation in Scotland, called 'the Scottish Civic Forum', Many involved, such as Scotland's Burgh Councils are already opposed to Trident - and so when the Scottish parliament demands its withdrawal, they could be used to legitimise them.
The hidden agenda
In 2004 Christopher Story Editor of Soviet Analyst made the following percipient observation: 'The hand of Moscow in the establishment of the UK regional assemblies, which is the policy of the European Union - labelled by Mikhail Gorbachev as 'the new European Soviet' - can be detected in the following manner. A report published in the Church of Scotland's journal 'Life and Work' (September 1990) headed 'Semi-suspension for the CPC', announced the 'effective' closure of this front, and - significantly, that it had established 'an Interim Working Committee, with Canon Kenyon Wright, former General Secretary of the Scottish Churches Council, as its Co-ordinating Secretary'. The report went on to lament the 'Christian Peace Conference's' 'failures and mistakes', quoting Canon Wright himself - its 'former' chief UK luminary - as asserting that the organisation had been too closely identified 'with a particular form of socialism in Europe'. In the spirit of 'glasnost' (false 'openness'), the article decried the 'mistakes' and failures of the CPC in respect of its support in the past for the Soviet Union.'
.. 'The true significance of this report arose from the following details. First, it preceded the publication of plans for a Scottish Parliament, by just a few weeks. In November 1990, the Scottish Convention - the body that Wright had set up to prepare the way for the Parliament – was to publish its plans for the Parliament's foundation. These were supported by the (Fabian) Labour Party in opposition, but the Conservative Government of the day rejected them as being politically divisive. All that needed was evidence that their primary architect had Soviet links, and they would have been shipwrecked. Such evidence lay in the background, in the form of a 1987 article by Dr Roger Watson entitled 'Subversive Theology' in The Salisbury Review, which, revealing Wright's links with CPC and pro-Soviet activities, concluded that 'the evidence from the Scottish situation is of a highly complex operation... controlled and initiated by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party'. The article provided incontestable evidence, and thus could, had it been taken up, for instance, by MI5, have been used as a lever to replicate carefully placed articles in the press (as MI5 often does), to discredit Wright and the programme he was steering, in line with the Soviet strategy, for a Scottish Parliament.
Anyway, hence the appearance of the 'Life and Work' article in September 1990. By announcing the 'effective' demise of the 'Christian Peace Conference', and appointing Wright to preside over it, what that article did was to draw a line under his 'former' activities (the 'Break with the Past' technique). From then onwards, in theory, Wright could agitate for a Scottish Parliament, without fear of further damaging exposes such as that in 'The Salisbury Review'. The very serious implication here is that the 'Life and Work' article, announcing the closure of the 'Christian Peace Conference', must have originated, according to this analysis, in Moscow. And if that is true, then clearly Moscow had an interest in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and the other regional assemblies which are intended to fragment the United Kingdom (in accordance with Lenin's dictum). And Wright's steadfast role in spearheading political opposition to Trident must surely have been one underlying motive, among several''26
Surely to have been mandated in such an important role argues a membership of the KGB?.
His exploitation of Scottish nationalism may hold dangers remote from the United Kingdom, not least because weakening Britain's unity will predispose political dictatorship from abroad, with a key component the abolition of Trident which presently deters overseas aggression – but also because Wright is well-placed through his role in enlisting the Church in Scotland into 'the ecumenical movement' to take part in a Mass as a 'false' demonstration - of unity.