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| Slightly photoshopped - Peter with Tariq |
When I moved to London in the early 1970s - after being kicked out of Warwick University - I ended up in a flat near Clapham South tube station shared with Phil and Peter Cooper. Peter was the posh one of us.
At that time we were unemployed and basically working full-time for the International Marxist Group. I had some adventures with Peter, notably our smuggling trip into the former Czechoslovakia when it was a decadent Stalinist police state (but still able to bite). I documented that episode here.
Later, he slightly mysteriously moved away to Manchester. Then I left the IMG and Peter got his fifteen minutes of fame, as documented in the image above. Here is more:
Peter Cooper
27 year old Peter Cooper, a left wing law advisor, admitted last night that he was the spy at the dinner table who bugged the controversial "Wogs' speech by Sir Richard Dobson, which led to Sir Richard's resignation as Chairman of British Leyland, last Friday.
He was invited to the dinner for members of the Twenty Club at the Dorchester, by his father Mr. John Cooper, who after the speech was published in the Socialist Challenge whose editor is Tariq Ali - a friend of Peter Cooper, has resigned from the club.
Photo Shows: Peter Cooper seen during his press conference today watch by Mr. Tariq Ali, Editor of the Socialist Challenge who published the story of Sir Richard Dobson's speech, which can be seen on the wall in the background.
After that, Peter seems to vanish from history. It took me an afternoon, flailing around with my fading memories, to put this post together.
