[…] projects and Neave is nowhere to be seen in the story of NAFF as I understand it. In the penultimate chapter he reexamines the cases of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd: helped by Wallace, Holroyd was the original whistle-blower on ‘collusion’ between the British state and the loyalists. Larkin takes the unusual step for […]
[…] blackmail and intimidation – even in these enlightened times – by the intelligence services. * * * Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk More on Colin Wallace (See Lobster 1). Liberal Peer, Lord Avebury, and the Duke of Norfolk, have joined forces to help prove his innocence. Avebury has written to witnesses who […]
Never mind Peter Wright, he was obviously lying in Spycatcher anyway. Wallace is a vastly more important source: he doesn’t tell lies, for one thing; and he’s got bits of paper, evidence, some of which concerns his dealings with the late Airey Neave after he was thrown out of government service. At the time […]
[…] this document, just to read it. At this point a little bell may be ringing in your ears. For this is precisely the technique used by Colin Wallace in the British Army’s psy-ops unit in Belfast in the 1970s. Wallace would take journalists, especially foreign journalists whose knowledge of British politics was limited, into […]
[…] September) for whom we had produced a ‘ragbag of spelling and factual errors…a regurgitation of the wilder fantasies of Private Eye, Auberon Waugh, Spycatcher, Peter Wright, Colin Wallace and Tony Benn.’ Joe Haines first attacked us in 1986 when Tribune printed an abbreviated version of Lobster 11. Since then he as rubbished everyone who […]
[PDF file]: Faustian Bargains Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas Joan Mellen London and New York: Bloomsbury; 2016, h/b, £18.99 P rofessor Mellen spoke about ‘Mac’ Wallace, who is one of the two subjects of this book, a couple of years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when […]
[…] snippets. He tells us (p. 108) that when Labour won the election in 1974, IRD dropped its briefings on subversion in Britain. This may explain why Colin Wallace was in such demand post February 1974. With the IRD briefings stopped, Wallace’s InfPol unit in Northern Ireland was the last official U.K. source of unattributable […]
[…] island’s mental hospital three thousand yards away..” Adams, incidentally, appears to be a conduit for Ministry of Defence disinformation. For example, in May last year he smeared Wallace and Holroyd in the Los Angeles Times, and more recently joined in the Sunday Times’ attempt to exculpate the SAS from their assassinations in Gibraltar. (On […]
[…] to rob some banks. ‘West’ is just running the departmental line. His Oldfield chapter ends with a pasted-in erratum slip correcting errors in the paragraph on Colin Wallace after Wallace complained to the publisher. ‘West’ appears to have been unaware that Wallace’s conviction for manslaughter had been quashed and thought his wife worked for […]
[…] Liam Clarke. And about Mr Clarke there is a story to tell. When I was trying to get the major media to take the allegations of Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd seriously, there were a number of journalists who appeared to be on their side, to whom I (and Wallace and Holroyd) spoke freely. […]
