What is Chapman Pincher?
{{Infobox writer |name = Chapman Pincher |image = |imagesize = |caption = |pseudonym = |birth_date = {{birth date|1914|3|29|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Ambala]], [[Punjab]], [[British Raj]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2014|8|5|1914|3|29|df=y}} |death_place = |occupation = journalist, [[historian]], and novelist |nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]] |subject =espionage |alma_mater=[[Darlington Grammar School]]}} '''Harry Chapman Pincher''' (29 March 1914 &ndash; 5 August 2014) was an [[India]]n-born [[British people|British]] journalist, historian, and novelist.<ref name=guardian-chapman-pincher-fleet-street>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/01/ian-jack-chapman-pincher-fleet-street |title=Chapman Pincher was Fleet Street's spycatcher. His secret? A good lunch |last=Jack |first=Ian |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |date=1 July 2011 |access-date=9 July 2011}}</ref> == Early life == Pincher was born on 29 March 1914 in [[Ambala]], [[Punjab]]. His father was from Britain and his mother was American. Pincher studied at [[Darlington Grammar School]] and [[King's College London]]. == His work == Pincher wrote a series of books on supposed [[KGB]] spies in the West, mostly members of the British ruling class whom he believed were [[treason|traitors]] in the service of the KGB. Among these were [[Roger Hollis]], former head of [[MI5]], and [[Harold Wilson]], twice Prime Minister in the 1960s and 70s.<ref>Pincher, Chapman 1981, ''Their trade is treachery''.</ref><ref>Pincher, Chapman 2009. ''Treachery: betrayals, blunders, and cover-ups: six decades of espionage against America and Great Britain''. New York: Random House, and Mainstream, UK.</ref> Many of these ideas had come from [[James Jesus Angleton]], former [[CIA]] counterespionage chief. Angleton's career ended when his many allegations were not supported with appropriate evidence. Among his more outrageous claims was that [[Canada|Canadian]] Prime Ministers [[Lester Pearson]] and [[Pierre Trud