[…] any planned or systematic way’. What precisely does ‘planned or systematic’ mean? This is pretty poor and it gets worse when he dismisses Holroyd, Baker and Colin Wallace because they have ‘something to gain’ by making their allegations. The state (and its employees), we are apparently supposed to think, do not. This is insulting. […]
[…] Smith’s account of the war in Ireland omits almost all the bad things the British state did there in the 1970s. There is no reference to Colin Wallace, dirty tricks, the Information Policy Unit, the Ulster Workers Council strike, and Fred Holroyd; and almost nothing on loyalist collaboration with the intelligence services and the […]
[…] standpoint ever written. The previous best account was David Boulton’s The UVF, 1966-1973 (Torc Books, 1974). For that, readers are referred to Paul Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace?, (MacMillan, 1989) and Cusack and McDonald’s previous collaboration, The UVF (Poolbeg, 2000). Contractual Loyalism is that which negotiates its British/Loyalist identity against a secular class based […]
[…] trial that the Medellin cartel gave $10 million to the contras. FBI informant Wanda Palacio told the Kerry subcommittee that she saw cocaine being loaded onto pilot Wallace Sawyer’s plane in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1985. (Sawyer and his Southern Air Transport L382, carrying guns this time, were shot down over Nicaragua one year later. […]
[…] It may be that Lobster is simply too small to be worth Searchlight‘s attention, but I suspect the real reason lies elsewhere. Throughout the 1986-88 period Colin Wallace and Peter Wright provided evidence of ‘MI5 plots’. On closer examination, however, as Steve Dorril and I tried to elaborate in our book Smear!, the picture […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] Carrington, Foreign Secretary under Mrs Thatcher and currently Chair of the Bilderberg organisation; Lord Gowrie, former arts minister and chair of the Arts Council; and John Kemp- Wallace, former chair of the Stock Exchange. The income generated by Dulverton’s capital comes to well over £2,000,000 a year, which is dished out to mostly unexceptional […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.
