The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] the ‘feel’ of such a document right.) For reasons that have been elaborated in Lobster 11 (and, more recently, in the interview I did with Wallace and Holroyd in Tribune 23 January 1987), the project never got beyond its initial stages. But I have a copy of Wallace’s first notes for CO2 and they […]

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MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] INLA, presumably one of the hardest of targets to penetrate, and MI5 had its agent, Pat Daly, being offered a place on the organisation’s inner sanctum. (Fred Holroyd says that in his day the British had an agent on the IRA’s Army Council; and assumes they have one now.) Is Winter’s dictum to be […]

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Contents

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] the mainland UK media have spent the past 3 months talking to Wallace (and us) but printing almost nothing, in Ireland, North and South, Wallace and Fred Holroyd have been making headlines every week. The strange silence of the British press cannot last for ever. Fitting up Wallace was a big mistake; indeed, rumour […]

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The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] on but claimed that it ‘did not manifest itself to the people on the ground.’ This is implausible. Not only do we know from messers Wallace and Holroyd, who had been ‘on the ground’ during a previous power struggle over the control of intelligence, that those ‘on the ground’ know perfectly well what is […]

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Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] of these people are Nasty Bastards? Thanks to Dorril, we are a step closer to finding out, though it will take another Massiter, a Wallace or a Holroyd to get inside the citadel. I have not sought to damn Silent Conspiracy with faint praise, I Hope. Dorril’s contribution to research in this field has […]

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The Faber book of Espionage

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] or from the various tv programmes she appeared on, absurdly he reproduces a short letter she wrote to New Society. The entry on G.K. Young’s friend (and critic of MI5) Anthony Cavendish begins, snidely, ‘The Bulgarian who changed his name to Anthony Cavendish…’; and there is, of course, nothing from messers Wallace, Holroyd or Rusbridger.

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Enemies of the State

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] investigator, but describing himself as ‘broadcaster and author’ (this is his first book). His range of contacts — listed in the Acknowledgements — now include Capt. Fred Holroyd, Tam Dalyell MP, Duncan Campbell, Paul Foot, Mark Hollingsworth and Gerry Gable. The reader is invited to accept that Murray has undergone a political conversion and […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] slowly changing its content. In number 43, for example, they carried a couple of very interesting pieces on the war in Rhodesia. (I sent them to Fred Holroyd, who took part in that war. He pronounced them pretty accurate.) Even more striking is the essay ‘Flouride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy?’ by Joel Griffiths […]

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Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] adds: ‘Amateurs such as Peter Green would not let explanations lie…’. Who is Peter Green? Does he mean Rob Green, Hilda Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd was apparently confined to a mental hospital after he made public the turf war that raged between MI5 and MI6 over who ran […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] adds: ‘Amateurs such as Peter Green would not let explanations lie…’. Who is Peter Green? Does he mean Rob Green, Hilda Murrell’s nephew? Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd are discussed. ‘Holroyd after he MI5 and Ireland’. was apparently confined to a mental hospital made public the turf war that raged between MI6 over who […]

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