[…] of resentment. Greenberg traces each campaign, but plainly doesn’t accept Nixon’s tactics as being negative, though the same techniques become suspect when they are adopted by George Wallace in 1968. Why does Greenberg not sauce the gander as well as the goose? Rather than the shortcomings of academic balance, the blame for Greenberg’s approach […]
[…] IFF’s funds, isn’t it? IFF(UK) Suite 500, Chesham House, 150 Regent St, London W1R 5FA. I have it on reliable authority that in 1987 — when the Wallace and Holroyd story was at its first peak — MI5 approached IFF(UK) and suggested that they take legal action against Lobster using MI5 money. IFF refused. […]
[…] had something to do with the cost of Trident/Polaris swallowing up the available military budgets. Nonetheless, this a considerable step forward in our understanding – and demystification – of Whitehall’s secret warriors. Notes 1 John Ware has his uses, doesn’t he? Rubbishing Wallace and getting Wright to admit it was all nonsense. Nice one, John.
[…] examples could be multiplied 10, 20-fold. This book is mostly junk, mere propaganda. I had it with me to read on the train when I visited Colin Wallace. I showed him the list of contributors and mentioned the Jonathan Institute. “Oh, a Mossad front, you mean”, he said, and put it down. A Mossad […]
[…] BCA, London, 1993. Peter Smith, ‘Lockerbie, the Octopus and the Maltese Double Cross’, Lobster 27, June 1994. Dr West was the pathologist at the trial of Colin Wallace. Hansard, 8 May 1996. Keith Potter, ‘Seeking the Truth’, Police Review, 31 May 1996. Understandably, the police service are not prepared to drop their interest in […]
[…] had been working for British intelligence, and said that he would not be returning home. Whilst Doherty’s book had produced a goldmine of information from Holroyd, Colin Wallace and others an the Grew-Carroll case and other covert operations in Ireland, it suffers from the mishap of going to print just too soon: the last […]
[…] Mike Hughes, who is a Leeds-based free-lance journalist and researcher; David Teacher, a translator, researcher, author of a study of Tolstoy, and Lobster’s European correspondent; and Colin Wallace, who is in management education. The photograph on the front cover is the copyright of the Unification Church and has been lifted from Covert Action Information […]
[…] terms, collusive secrecy and law-breaking are part of how the deep political system works.'(6) Nobody who has witnessed Watergate, Irangate, Kincora, the Rainbow Warrior murders, Stalker, Colin Wallace, or any of the other significant exposes of the secret state activities of the past 25 years could really dispute this. Which is to say nothing […]
[…] would have been a very strange book. Kincora hardly figures in it; and of the various intelligence-related events which surrounded it there is barely a trace. Colin Wallace is mentioned once, in passing. The only positive thing that could be said is that there is a lot of (mostly unsourced) information about William McGrath […]
[…] revelations, was the assassination of ‘a key minister by sending him an exploding shaver’. (p. 45) The Tony Smythe smear In the aftermath of the Peter Wright/Colin Wallace revelations, Tony Smythe wrote to the Guardian on 2 February 1990, describing a smear campaign that had been run against him. Head of War Resisters International […]
