[…] 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 […]
Parliamentary Question for Priority Written Answer on Thursday 27th November 1986 Question 160W MR. KEVIN McNAMARA: To ask Mr. Attorney General, if he will prosecute Mr. Colin Wallace, former senior information officer, Psychops, Army Headquarters, Norther Ireland for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty’s Government in the period 1974 to 1979 […]
[…] as their starting point information from former members of the security services and the British Army, and, in particular, certain accounts of the period written by Colin Wallace, the authors demonstrate that the outlines of a series of ramified psychological and disinformation operations against the Wilson Government of 1974-76 are visible. Among the elements […]
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 to […]
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
[…] Livingstone’s questions Not mentioned by Hollingsworth in his piece about Parliament and spooks is the curious case of Ken Livingstone’s parliamentary questions. In 1987/8, fed by Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd via Livingstone’s then (unpaid) researcher Neil Grant, new (1987) MP Ken Livingstone put down hundreds of written questions in the House of Commons […]
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti, Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. […]
James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD’s disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do […]
