[PDF file]: TO CATCH A SPY How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold Tim Tate London: Icon, h/b, £25 Robin Ramsay The publisher sent me a pre-publication proof copy of this on spec and my initial reaction was: Is there really any need to go over this old ground again? Turns out, there is […]
[…] Ramsay Big Cyril H ow do we interpret the Cyril Smith story to date? We know that allegations about Smith were given by MI5 officers to Colin Wallace in the British Army’s Information Policy Unit in Northern Ireland in 1974 for use in psy-ops projects. Yet we have recently learned that the police file […]
[PDF file]: LBJ: doubles and disinformation Garrick Alder Lobster readers will be aware of the relationship between US President Lyndon Johnson and his alleged personal hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, who is linked by forensic evidence to the assassination of JFK. This article explores some of the circumstances of another convicted murderer with alleged links to the […]
[…] cooperating with us at all,’ said Wilson, 70, who is now retired and living in Austin. It is reasonably well established that Marshall was murdered by ‘Mac’ Wallace, a member of LBJ’s entourage. Morrow suggests that the hostility to the investigation from the Kennedy White House was a desire to avoid something which might […]
[PDF file]: […] used by the state to hide politically sensitive documents. On 18 March 2013, answering a question in the House of Lords from Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, Lord Wallace of Tankerness for the British government refused to say how many documents had been subjected to PII during the Old Bailey trial of the former chief […]
[PDF file]: […] war in Northern Ireland. And since Sanderson knew about all this he had to be discredited. Being wrongly convicted and imprisoned – as was done to Colin Wallace – would do the job. The plan to smear the striking miners by having an act of terrorism attributed to them was preposterous and unnecessary: the […]
[PDF file]: […] 1987, the government didn’t try to ban the book. But its claims that Sessargo was a ‘Walter Mitty’ smacked of previous campaigns to discredit whistleblowers from Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd through to David Shayler. Also, if Sessargo were simply a fantasist, why (as Barry Wigmore of the Daily Mail claimed) was he ‘more […]
[…] second half is loaded down with the MJ-12 nonsense. The MJ-12 material was a classic disinformation operation of the type described by former MOD psy-ops officer Colin Wallace as ‘the double bubble’, in which people – usually journalists – are led away from the subject they are pursuing and off down another direction, at […]
[PDF file]: […] This is an interim report, a sketch of some research since Lobster 11. Lobster 11 began as attempts to check some of the material provided by Colin Wallace, and, quite quickly, turned into a self-education course on the 1970s and the British Right. When we put No. 11 out we had done enough reading […]
[PDF file]: […] security? The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been quoted as saying she would ‘have to consider the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act in some cases’.35 Colin Wallace – who would be subject to the strictures of the Official p. 35. Thanks to HP who spotted this. 32 33 Those are the BBC’s words: […]
