[…] our Board meetings. I always sat as far away from him as possible: he suffered badly from halitosis.’ (p. 161) Colin Wallace/psy-ops One of the lines Colin Wallace at Information Policy tried to get the media to run about Northern Ireland in 1973/4 was the one about the IRA hiring US Army veterans to […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] Services, which imports the lie-detector, are worth investigation. Harrison was Special Branch liaison officer between the Sussex Police and MI5, and the officer who interrogated Captain Colin Wallace in Brighton after Wallace killed his lover’s husband. Small world. (3) * * * Still unreleased is the ‘Whiteside Inquiry”. In December 1981 R.U.C. Chief Sir […]
[…] Secker and Warburg, 1978). The revelations first appeared in the Observer during 1977. Peter Wright, Spycatcher (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987). See Paul Foot, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (London: Macmillan, 1988) and Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State (London: Fourth Estate, 1991). These are still the fullest and best […]
[…] of this, although it confirms that the Army were ‘furious’ with the secret talks with the IRA, believing that they had the IRA ‘on the run’. Colin Wallace confirmed in 1980 that MI5 officers in Northern Ireland not only objected to Wilson being Prime Minister, but to his Irish policies. (29) Enmeshed in these […]
[…] 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 […]
